The Steel Guitar Forum

I think you'll find that a Princeton is often underpowered for band rehearsals (especially with drums) but 100% useable for home practice. If you have a serious PA to lean on it could work for live shows but most of us would find it less than ideal for steel. Might just be my all time favourite guit...

3&4 is a great place to start as it will cover basically any learning material you’re going to find and it could be all you ever need (I only added a 5th lever after 20 years and could easily live without it) My advice would be to try and find a well maintained used pro steel from a reputable se...

I find it really important to stress to US vendors how to fill out customs forms as Americans typically aren't used to paying customs charges of the scale that most other countries charge so they understandably don't know the implications of an incorrectly filled out form... In Canada I once sent a ...

Something I've found on both of my steels is that with the pull set up for G, I'm not able to tune it to get to G#, but if I set it up for G#, I am able to get it tuned to only raise as far as G. I generally prefer the unison change but do occasionally want the F# > G change and can just retune the ...

Sorry to hear you're having these issues Mike - my experience has been quite positive overall. I love the blue mica on your guitar :) The only small issue I had was noticing a few minor squeaks that I didn't expect in a brand new guitar where I suppose things may have been under-lubricated at the fa...

Jon Light wrote:I would not in a million years choose that over a Moyo pedal made by forum member Glenn Taylor.

https://reverb.com/item/4390294-moyo-mini-volume-pedal

Same here - I’m really happy with my Moyo!
I rarely use my Goodrich anymore.

You could likely find a single neck 3&4 EMCI near the bottom of your budget and it would be a great guitar to grow with - I played one for around 20 years, it sounds great, plays really well, is relatively light and is very easy to work on/change around while learning about all-pull mechanics. I...

Per Berner wrote:Would look even better with a brushed aluminum neck...

Yah brushed aluminium neck would be a hot look! Then we'd have to wade into the wood neck vs aluminium neck discussions though

That is one seriously cool looking steel, apart from the "decorative" strip on the body edges and the neck. Would look sooo much better without them. And what about losing the mica altogether? A satiny oil & wax finish on plain maple would be even cooler. Luckily I don't need one – bu...

Stew, Thank you for the great photos and review. Very interested to hear your feedback after the gig. Re scale length: other Excels seem to be 24.25 inches, slightly longer than many older PSGs. How long is the Robostar? Cheers, John It’s 24 1/8 according to Mitsuo, so a ‘normal’ scale length but I...

hoo boy that guitar is a looker - nice one!

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I'm not seeing anything about this model on the website.. is there any source for information? the last update to their website seems to be 2014 :eek: I'll post detailed photos and answer questions as soon as it gets here (next week hopefully) but if you email Mitsuo, I'm sure he'll happily give yo...

I see one price specified but two different guitars. One has 3 floor pedals and one has 5 floor pedals. $2980 is the base price I was quoted for a 3+5 in black, and since I didn’t need additional pedals or levers I didn’t ask how much they would be… Pad, volume/tone controls and other colours are a...

John Ely wrote:Are Excels standard all-pull mechanism guitars?
Thanks,
John

Yes - Mitsuo told me this model is a 5 raise / 5 lower all pull

Lee Gauthier wrote:Looks very nice. What is robotic about it??

nothing as far as I know, it's just a cool name

Check this out! Has anyone tried one of these? I have been looking to buy a light travel guitar and this at 22 lbs might be a good option. Thoughts? Here's the email I received from Fuzzy: New model Robostar S10--$2.980.00 !! *Limited production of 10 units, order early! The attached photo shows th...

Thomas Alexander wrote:If you're looking to keep building repertoire, Jay Dee Maness has 2 DVD courses that cover his parts on the Desert Rose Band's records. You can buy them from steel guitars of north county, or Jay Dee's website.

thanks! That would be a great next step ~

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a book that picks up where Dewitt Scott's Mel Bay books end off? I've recently dug out my copies of his 'Deluxe Pedal Steel Guitar Method' and 'Anthology of Pedal Steel Guitar' as a refresher while I get back into playing more seriously after a long break, ...

Thanks Al - you've been an immense help along my steel journey, and SGC will be incredibly missed!
All the best in your next phase

what a beauty guitar!

I run my Superblock US with the master at full and the gain only as high as necessary...

Hey all - I'm a professional mixing engineer who previously spent a good 10 years as a pro steel player and would happily elevate your steel-centric recordings with a great mix, for faaaar less than I would charge a label for a more pop/folk/rock type of project :) Feel free to drop me a line, or ch...

Hi all, I’m interested in finding an SGI steel made by excel, needs to be an S10 and preferably the later version with the raised neck.

If you’re looking to sell one please let me know

Stew

Excellent - thank you!

Now to undo my previous 'improvements'