The Steel Guitar Forum

Hello Mike.
I had a very good experience buying 5/8 X 11 legs from steelguitarparts.net(.com?).
They are in Nashville.
Best of luck.

"Aloha from Hawaii" - Barney Isaacs Jr. and his Hawaiian Islanders. Mine is a Polydor Lp.

Sol times two! Sol Hoopii center and Sol K. Bright on the left!

Regan,
There's a copy of "Steelin' Memories" on the "World of Books" website.

Thanks a lot Andy.
Great post!

The back of the Lp informs us Jerry used his Rickenbacker 7 stringer with his diatonic tuning for this recording.

A Fender Coronado!

Hello Tom Anderson,

There are a couple of these for sale at discogs.com.
Hope this helps.

Hello Casey Lowmiller,

A few more photos, maybe back and sides(?), will help you sell this steel. I really like the tone and string spacing of this model. Good luck.

Dave

Hello Len,...and welcome to the forum! I would keep my eye on eBay. It may be quite a waiting game, and not inexpensive. In the mean time you may be able to substitute the missing tuner with a tuner from approx. the same time frame. I'd look for 1930's. Grover tuners, or perhaps old Waverly tuners f...

Hello Nicholas,
I PM'd you.

Thanks, Dave

P.S.:
davidtmayes@aol.com

I'll take it!

Both necks appear to be missing a bridge?

I have the same cut of "Au Hea Oe" on my copy of "Haunani, the Voice of Hawaii". DL74561. Barney backs her on all the cuts.
Maybe the Nui Nui Six is some kind of packaging of Decca Hawaiian artists taken from previously recorded work?

Update!
There are a couple of promotional videos on YubeTube for this album. Give it a listen.

On one of Jerry's youtube performance videos. he talks about doing the album with Don. Don initially was bit reluctant...questioning the choice of "old" tunes that he feared nobody would want to hear. Jerry apparently convinced him otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if Jerry is on the whol...

Hello Gary,

Jerry backed Don Ho on a recording called Do Ho...30 Hawaiian favorites. The recording includes Tiny Bubbles. How could it not?
I don't own that record. There are a good number of them on eBay.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for posting the angryjim link Nic. I'm really enjoying it.

Jerry's D9th tuning in this collection is ECAF#EC# (high to low).More accurately called D9th plus A6th.

Yes Andy, you'll need to take the pickup apart. To do the job the way I did it, you'll need: Basic soldering skills. Solder gun - I use a Weller WP25. Rosin core solder. Solder-wick. Small solder lug. Electrical tape. WD40 - maybe. Wire clippers. Cereal box. Facial tissue to dry your eyes when you s...

When you press on the top of the pickup, you are stabilizing the bobbin. Maybe it has shrunk a little, or maybe that's how it was made. I fixed the same problem by placing a piece of thin cardboard, cut from a cereal box, on the inside of the top half of the pickup housing. With the pickup back toge...

The first tuners had a shorter nut. They also had a wider tuner shaft stabilizing block in the center of the pan....not sure what it might have been called. Some forum member also mentioned the early roman numeral fret boards were a little different as well. Were they shorter, or were the fret marke...

Hello again Jerry.

Yes, a low profile is the goal.
A friend has an old Fender VP that he's going to loan me. I'm set for now.

Thanks again,
Dave

Thanks for the update Jerry.

If for some reason your first responder backs out, I'll still be happy to buy it.

Take care,
Dave

Hello Jerry.
I'll take it, if it's still available.

What payment method do you prefer?

Many thanks,
Dave