The Steel Guitar Forum

Your welcome, Ron. Its a good site, lots of options. The guy that runs it did a lot of work to get it up and running right.

This link has scales and a chord finder. https://www.hawaiiansteel.com/scalelocator/basic.php

Thanks, thats what I was looking for.

I am looking to change tuning on my lap steel from a c6 to a G dobro tuning. I used to have a link that showed the various gauges for different tunings, cant find it. Does anybody have a link or can tell me what gauge I would need? 22 1/2" scale length.Thanks.

I like it...except the extended lower bout with the controls. I like them closer to the strings so they can be accessed with out lifting the heel of my picking hand. Otherwise its a beaut.

JJ tubes are notorious for early failures. I've been repairing tube amps for decades and JJ's are some of the most unreliable tubes I ever experienced.In my and my sons amps I wont even use any current production tubes. I started hoarding thubes back in the early 80's when I saw the writing on the w...

No problem, Mark. Heres a link for the whole page of EIA codes, its got transformers and other components. I keep a copy of it on the wall in my workshop. http://www.triodeel.com/eiacode.htm

If you open the cab, you will see a number stamped on the frame. Part of this number is the manufacturers code. These are some common codes for spkrs. CTS (Chicago Telephone Supply) 137 Jensen 220 Magnavox 232 DuKane (Operadio Corp) 252 Quam (Quam-Nichols) 270 Rola 285 Utah 328 Western Electric 336 ...

Does the noise stop when the volume is completely off? You can narrow things down by pulling the tubes one by one starting with V1 which is the preamp tube closest the input jack. With the amp on and the noise present, pull V1. If the noise stops the problem is in the circuit for V1. If the noise co...

Old hands, oh yeah, know it well. Plus I had my left hand broken up pretty bad in a motorcycle accident some years ago.Getting tired of dropping things, slide bars included.

Did you check fliptops.net they have everything Ampeg.

Theres this https://www.amazon.com/Swing-West-Vol-W ... B00000IPVU There are a couple of them, various artists

250 to ground at 1/4 turn, 500 at 1/2 turn 750 at 3/4 and 1meg full, no?

A linear 1meg pot will be at 500k at its midpoint.

"A 1 meg tone pot is not going to do much in the first 75% of rotations from full up clockwise." This would be correct if it were an audio taper pot, but its a linear taper according to the Seymour Duncan schem. I suspect someone changed the original linear pot for an audio.

Try some Deoxit before you change the pot.

You came to the right place, I've gotten a few from Erv and there are a couple other guys who do tabs here for a very fair price.

What tuning?

Nicely done!

Try some 0000 steel wool and or some 800 to 1200 grit emery paper.

There are many good sounding stomp box reverbs but for me nothing beats the sound of the tube unit.Since tone and what sounds good is totally subjective you may very well find a stomp box that does it for you. I just looked at some on Reverb and cant believe the prices.I built one for myself and one...

I never understood people announcing that they are leaving a forum.If I dont like something about a certain forum I just change the station so to speak.Usually its because something somebody said made someone mad so they announce they are leaving, just go.This is the first time I heard someone annou...

I go with Jims school of thought.My oldest amp, a mid 60's Ampeg Gemini still has the original Bugle Boy preamp tubes.I mentioned it before that I have about 150 NOS preamp tubes and about 50-60 used preamp pulls and there is no need to use them in this amp.I had it since 71 and it has been fully ab...

Thanks for the update, John.It sounds like she's able to get back on track, finally.

I had that same head, 65 Bandmaster and a similar looking cab back in the 80's.Was a blonde tolex cab with an EV speaker.I put a master volume in the head.That master was pretty much useless, it was always on ten.I eventually took it out.