The Steel Guitar Forum

umm, since my last name is also hudson, i think you should just gift it to me, LOL, just wante to say shes beautiful, but hopefully after i recoer from these surgeries, ill hopfully be ordering up a 6 string from you all. have a great holiday season!

Dean Rimmer wrote:ill take it if you still have it

Sent you a DM.

Guitar is an Asher gold top Jr Hawaiian, one tiny nick on the front, Comes with Full padded Asher official gig bag, barely played, priced to sell fast. 2 small nicks, very hard to see, ( even harder to picture) on the front you dont see them unless you angle the light. i pictured them as best as pos...

Solder the black to the sleeve, and the green to the tip. Make sure the other two are insulated. I think i gotcha on this, the inside part is the sleeve( ground) and the outside part if the tip, ( red in the picture,) ill solder the green there then just throw a wire nut and tape off the other wire...

Bill A. Moore wrote:Solder the black to the sleeve, and the green to the tip. Make sure the other two are insulated.

Heres a pic of the jack as it exists now, , which goes where?

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Bill A. Moore wrote:Solder the black to the sleeve, and the green to the tip. Make sure the other two are insulated.

going to sound weird but, whats a sleeve or a tip?

so i recently purchased a homemade console lap steel, with a single single coil wiring directly tot he jack, no vol or tone pots which is fine because obviously i use a volume pedal anyway. Now unfortunately theres a touch more hum from the single coil than id prefer, so i purchased a single soil sp...

Hello all, so i play lap steel in open D. 6 string. i have the opportunity to pick up a 6 string pedal steel with just 2 pedals, and no knee levers, ( i tried a carter starter once, it was too much for me, i dont want more pedals and levers) so my question is tuning. whats even close to open d in 6 ...

love th song sir, the music is superb and your playing especially, as usually is flawless. n going to be hoenst and say, not a fan of the vocalist, the style seemed like he was trying to be to much bon jovi and it made it sound like a bon jovi karaoke thing. but i loved everything else for sure.

Hello sir, is this still available?

That neck pickup looks like a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat to me. P90 type of thing, like Mr. Womack said. it definitely sounds like a p90, so you might be right on, this thing sounds superb, i definitely got my monies worth, hands down. heres what i just found when i pulled the pickups, https://bb.stee...

Neck looks like a P-90 built into a humbucker chassis so that it can fit into a bucker slot. Centralized pole pieces. Bob i think you all are rigtht on, the sound is superb, defintely lucked out on it, im putting new locking tuners on on thursday so i need to pull the strings off anyway, guess ill ...

Rick Abbott wrote:That neck pickup looks like a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat to me. P90 type of thing, like Mr. Womack said.

it definitely sounds like a p90, so you might be right on, this thing sounds superb, i definitely got my monies worth, hands down.

Allan Revich wrote:I can’t answer your question, but I have one for you. Is the neck pickup a P90 or similar single coil. It looks that way to me.

doesnt appear to be although i havent pulled the pickup out to look behind the cover.

Some of you may have read my questions abotu this , sight unseen by me, i bought it from GC listed as miscellaneous lap steel. for 300 bucks. i took a shot, knowing i can always return it, well its better looking in person for sure, the striped top is super looking and its defintiely been played thi...

Sorry to rain on your parade some, In the early 2000's I was in bed with China factories for about 12 years, and sold a few hundred of these and others of what you are calling Knockoff's. They are not. That shape is not an exclusive Asher design but a common shape that was flooded on the open marke...

That is an El Cheepo Asian Import. No where close to an Asher beyond the basic shape. it is weird that someone would take the time to do a knockoff of a lap steel , ive never seen a knockoff lap steel before. and i couldnt find one except for cheap rogues, on alieexpress or wish, seems weird especi...

SO i recently ordered an asher lap steel, the hawaiian jr in antique white. Its currently on backorder with GC, but oh well ill wait i guess. lol Anyway, so i wa doing alot of research on asher lap steels, seeing the more expensive beautiful woods used onthe high end ones, etc, and i came across ali...

Just adding a positve vote for the Certano benders. I have them on two lap steels and like them a lot. There is a learning curve for getting the hang of using the benders, blocking, and picking all at the same time but a bit of dedication overcomes those technical issues. Sorry to hear about your b...

Turning the winds on the tuners to wrap "over" may give you enough clearance. It looks like the wraps are "under" now. theyre actually locking tuners, so they arent wrapped just straight through and then the part thats through the hole is bent under on those two holes, if he wen...

I can certainly feel for you. How does the rest of the steel look overall? Are you happy with it? (the look, not the tuners, benders, and head) Maybe something can be salvaged from what you have? Did you contact the builder? Did you see any pictures of other steels he built with benders before you ...

So, ive loved the idea of a duesenburg lap steel with the benders, for along time, my teacher has one, and he loves it, So ive always wanted one. im 50 and back problems forced me to really play lap steel more and enjoy it more. Well one day i noticed that on ebay and reverb is a lap steel that you ...

If it’s just one string then maybe just the pole piece is weak. You could try adjusting it closer to the string. You have to be very careful with it. You can put a screwdriver in there but a lot of times they’re frozen and you just wind up breaking a chunk off. It takes careful disassembly and ...

So my 1963 valco/airline lap steel, the third string now has almost zero volume , ive tried new strings just to be sure etc, with no difference, so im assuming the pickup has finally gone bad. Does anyone know of a replacement pickup that'll fit these old as student workhorses, and stil let you use ...

yeah i primarily use the asher house as well, just ordered some more as i realized i was out, whoops, lol but sometimes if im playing single notes i find the high d gets lost very easily , , it loses sustain and doesn't have the depth id like it to. chances are im still going to use, it, id like to ...