The Steel Guitar Forum

Cool! I'm in love with the oldGibson amps (anything pre 1965 basically) and have a bunch of them (Multiple Falcons, a Scout, a GA-79 etc) They are AMAZING... although they kind of suck for steel overall and I couldn't imagine gigging on steel with one of them... but for guitar they KILL!!! The Reve...

Alan Jesse Foust was a friend of mine for almost 40 years. We met at Pacific Telephone when we were both telephone operators. I was the one who got him into guitar (Spanish, then steels) and he sort of took off with it. He caught cancer and passed away leaving no heirs and without a will. Ultimatel...

Your help is greatly appreciated and your instruments are stunning!

While none of these amps are for sale yet, I am soon going to be posting a few of these for sale. Send me a message if you would like "first dibs". 1947 BR-6 Style 1 (the tall cabinet) 1946 BR-1 (cabinet will be rebuilt first) 1954 GA-50T - yes! I really mean it. A "holy grail" a...

I've posted about this in another thread. Just acquired this...can't play it. I want to restore it and try to learn but, I want to do a proper job so that I can sell it if I have to give up. ;) It's a 3-legger. It's obviously been stripped and refinished VERY BADLY. It all works, though. https://bb....

Man, that's gorgeous maple. I suggest despite authenticity issues, you not paint it opaque blue! That's our thinking too! My partner in this crime does a lot of work on vintage electric guitars and he's seen Les Paul Gold Tops that had spectacular maple under the paint. He's "transformed"...

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/20370_output_image1614794194662_002_1.jpg https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/20370_output_image1614794159094_002_1.jpg So, here are some very revealing photos we just took. First off, the pot dating that you can't really read in these pictu...

Thanks, Bill! I'm not an expert by any means but I thought that since it has only 3 legs and doesn't have fancy binding that it was a Consolette. So far, we haven't found any serial number. When we pull the pots, we might find more info. (I say "we" because I have a luthier/guitar tech fri...

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/20370_20210129_172115_1.jpg This is what it looked like as I upacked it. The legs were packed separately - they appear to have been painted black with a brush so, all that paint will be stripped. It seems to have been refinished (maybe more than once) ...

I appreciate the replies!

The jury is still out as to whether I'm going to even keep this thing. It's a bit of a beast and I've never played anything with more than 6 strings.

Hi! I am new to the forum and only joined because I have acquired a 1950-something Gibson Consolette ( the 3-legged variety) with 2 8-string necks. I ordered strings from this forum: I got the Scotty's C6th and the E13th sets. Given that this instrument came to me without strings (well, it had a few...