The Steel Guitar Forum

Jeff Mead asked "Are you implying that vintage steels are just for looking at and don't sound any good?" [/b] The answer is NO which my full message made clear. The original question was in relation to making a selection between a new Melbert steel, and a vintage one. I decided to give som...

I had Bob Allen (Melbert)build me a twin neck (6+8) about 18 months ago, we discussed type of wood, and pick up selection, and it was shipped out to me in its own custom case c/w steel legs in a very reasonable period of time. I own a couple of vintage lap steels, and they are great instruments, but...

I have been using E7 tuning on one of my 6 string lap steels (BDEG#BE low to high)which I like for blues because of the ease of grabbing dominant7 chords for flat 5 substitutions etc, whist still retaining that full E chord on the top four strings for basic elmore james type phrases. I have also rec...