The Steel Guitar Forum

My request for tablature from John Russell was answered in a return email, the tabs are excellent only matched by his prompt response, thank you John, woodshed here I come!

Steve Here is a photograph of my 1930's six string electro Spanish, the Bakelite at has been damaged at the edge of the holes in the body. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1712/16567_image_1.jpg I repaired it 15 years ago and the plastic metal came away from the Bakelite recently so I've repai...

Built this one nearly 40 years ago to see if I could learn the grips for ten string pedal steel, has a longer scale length 25" + and made from solid mahogany, has " a tone of it's own " and everlasting sustain. Downside is, it weighs a ton, wobbles a bit on its 4 legs, but I do the sa...

Got to agree with Jeff, green baize from evil bay, cut to shape first then wet on one side with P.V.A. glue and place it onto the bottom of the guitar, smoothed out and let dry. This is a seven string I made last year and it shows the end product, baize and P.V.A are both cheap to buy and very pract...

Larry Lenhart wrote "A gentleman here on the forum posted this as he was having trouble seeing the fret markers: " Thanks Larry, compliments are always welcome, but because I'm short sighted in one eye and long sighted in the other I wear glasses, but found that help in seeing the fret mar...

Below are pictures of the first steel guitar I owned, built by myself in order to see if I could handle ten strings before I went for a pedal steel. The idea was to learn to play it first then perhaps convert it to pedals. http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1504/16567_image_10.jpg The guitar was ...

Rick Regards the sanding of the neck, possibly it was sand blasted along with the body during the re paint job? :whoa: An alternative suggestion is the neck was to silvery looking for the player, as I found my neck was hard on my eyes due to silver strings running horizontal with silver frets going ...

Larry I think Michael has summed up your first post question about availability of older consoles with a lot of useful information on the models made by the Rickenbacker factory. I submitted a post in January to find out how old my Rickenbacker consol was and received a good guess as to the age of a...

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1504/16567_image_7.jpg http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1504/16567_image_8.jpg This is my guitar estimated age is early 50's according to forum members, in my January post " how old is this Rickenbacker " it sounds as good as it looks, and I have...

Thanks Michael you have just put that thought to bed!
Just curious about the age and would love to know about any information I can get on this great guitar, besides that it's becoming harder to find things older than I am
Regards R M N

Thanks for your information Bob, but my Electro DW 16 seems to have been produced earlier than 1955 as according to Rickenbacker information on Google, the Electro company was sold in 1953. Could the last two numbers ( being 48 ) on the serial number have any meaning on the year of manufacture as 19...

I have the case for it and it is grey with black ends and a red interior. I would guess the paint finish on it could be called "blonde" as described in the catalogue, because it's so thin you can see through it and make out the wood grain. This can be seen on the surrounding wood in the ph...

Hi Michael
Thanks for this photo of the brochure, it gives me more details of the model.
Regards Robert

I have recently finished refurbishing this Rickenbacker electro double neck and would like to know how old it is, and gain any information about this type of guitar. The serial number on the nut is DW 24148 and I would appreciate any information about this guitar, pictures to follow ( I hope! ) Than...

Hi Lee
I am a newbie to this forum and this is my first try, I have the tablature to this in C6 by the man himself, so if you send me a pm with your email address I'll send you a copy.
Regards
Robert