The Steel Guitar Forum

Amp: Silverface Fender Dual Showman Reverb 135W (4 ohms). Practically identical to a Twin of the same era.

Cab: 1 open back w/Black Widow 15" (4 ohms)
or: 2 open backs w/EVM 12L, 8 ohms each.

Sweet!

Rainer

Jerry, try unhooking the raise helper spring, the one directly under the top deck of the guitar. Since string 2 is not raised there is no need for it. You might want to do the same for string 9. The raise helper spring pre-loads the raise section of the 1R/1L changer, causing it to move at the sligh...

..., but IN in german is IN. You're quite right, Roger. IN (English)is indeed IN (German) as a preposition: "in the house" - "in dem Haus". As a prefix, however, IN becomes EIN: "income" - "Einkommen". In this case "E" stands for "Eingang"...

Mick, on my Sierra Crown the Allen head size of the bolts that hold the plate of the mobile knee lever brackets ("hub assembly") is 1/8" (one eighth of an inch, roughly 3.2 mm). 9/64" would be nine sixty-fourth of an inch or 3.57 mm. The number combination 10/32 measures screws a...

Hi Steve, your arsenal of effect and amps should do the job nicely. I am not really familiar with the Transtubefex. If it doesn't have an overdrive effect for some crunchy rhythm, I'd use a TubeScreamer (the reissue model is quite okay) for that. You might want to consider a POD, which would give yo...

Tim, the "Crawford Cluster" means 5 knee levers for the left knee on E9: 2 moving left, 2 moving right, and 1 vertical. This is how the undercarriage looks like on an Emmons PP: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix/2675_Emmons_rechts_1.jpg In the booklet "A Manual of Style", Ji...

Go ahead, I'm listening.

Rainer

Thanks, Graham, now I get it. the nylon hex nuts do infact cut it...provided there is enough thread going into them,and theyre nice and tight. You might want to consider the rods John Coop makes. They have brass 3/16" tuning nuts permanently affixed to one end, much like the Sierra pull rods. I...

Why does it need barrel tuners AND nylon tuners ? Richard, I thought the same thing. Maybe I'm dense (very likely), but I still don't understand it. Barrel tuners work, because the whole rod is turned and screws itself into the barrel. The "nut" at the end of the rod is fixed: it does not...

If you send a steel or amp by mail you have to put the value on the slip.If the guitar is on that slip for a couple G's you will see a difference in your shipping cost.Those differentiations in cost's will go to the state.Looks like taxes to me.... Ron, there are no taxes involved in this scenario....

Mike, On my Sierra Session S-14 uni, I have 3 lowers on strings 2 and 8 each. The reason for that is that I have the change lock for the B6 mode on a dedicated LK lever, and I put the two lowers on string 2 on two sepearate RK levers. Also, there are 4 raises on string 5: P1, P3, P7 and the raise ad...

All right - time to brag: I have just finished converting a Session 400 LTD to an amp head. :o The combo amp: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix/2675_Peavey_Session_400_LTD_Combo_1.jpg The raw material: L: 660 mm x H: 330 mm x W: 240 mm (Dual Showman Reverb measurements) Dove tail joints, 15 mm ...

Randal, I see two problems with this design - besides the fact that it is only a single lower changer. 1. The lower tuning screw takes the full force of the string tension. A nylon hex tuner would probably not work. You'd need a pretty tight self-locking nut to keep the unlowered finger in tune. 2. ...

Jim Cohen wrote:... LEO FENDER called it a "Steel Pedal" Guitar!

It doesn't really surprise me, considering the fact that he also had the vibrato/tremolo thing backwards.

Leo was undoubtably a genious in many fields. Musical terminology wasn't one of them. So what?

VERY respectfully,
Rainer

Jerry, I have a Super Twin Reverb in a Dual Showman head cab that I run into an open back cab with a Peavey 1501-4 speaker. I get no breakup at any volume, even with the boost on. One thing to remember is to set the master volume to 10 and the distortion pot to "off" (i.e. all the way to t...

Del, I think there's a typo in you "D" chord diagram: the 3rd fret D major shouldn't have the A pedal engaged. The A pedal should be used on the 1st fret D chord. The A pedal on the 3rd fret would give you an E note (9th) instead of the D root. On all the chords where you hold just the A p...

Mickey, Farris, the seller of the ZumSteel D-10 from Enderlin, ND/Beijing, China is forum member Steve Takacs, an American who works as a teacher in China. During the summer months he visits with his family in the states where he also keeps some of his steels. I have bought several items from Steve,...

Update: the amp arrived yesterday and I powered it up with the small Yamaha cab to see, if it worked okay after the shipping. All the tubes glow normally and the sound is great, even with the weak Yamaha 50 W speaker (I went easy on the volume. http://steelguitarforum.com/smile.gif ) If a footswitch...

James, David, thank you both very much for responding. I had searched the electronics section of this forum re: the Super Twin before buying it. In fact, the rave revues from a lot of members made me click the buy-it-now button. http://steelguitarforum.com/smile.gif I know that I'll need a Y-cord to...

I have just bought this Super Twin on Ebay: http://usera.imagecave.com/Rainer/SGF-Photos/1.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/Rainer/SGF-Photos/2.jpg I don't have the amp yet, just the photos. From research here on the forum and on the Fender Amp Field Guide site, I understand that the Super Twin never ...

Hank, there's a typo in your link (steelman2).
This should work: http://usera.imagecave.com/steelman2/YamahaAmp.jpg

Cliff, 1. Check the shock (compression) spring between the bellcrank swivel and the rod collar. It should move freely when the pedal is not activated (at least a millimeter or so) it should not be compressed when not activated. 2. If you tune the C-pedal 5th raise at the keyhead to 436 Hz, how far d...

Brad, I have no hand-on experience with the student model - I own a D-10. I think adding a lever to a Fender student S-10 would be as easy, or rather as hard, as adding a lever to a Sho~Bud Maverick. I guess the existing lever lowers 2-D# to D and 8-E to D#. An additional lever should raise the Es t...

Brad, there were 3 Fender Sho~Bud models: 1: a student guitar with 3+1, practically identical to the Maverick http://usera.imagecave.com/Rainer/SGF-Photos/29_1.jpg 2: a pro-level S-10 with 3+4 http://usera.imagecave.com/Rainer/SGF-Photos/S-10a.jpg 3: a pro-level D-10 with 8+4 (like Walter Stettner's...

George, I think we have a mixup of technical terms here. "Split", "half-stop", and "halftone tuner" are three completely different things. SPLIT: lower a string a whole tone (e.g. G# to F# on a lever) and then raise it a half tone (e.g. G# to A on the B-pedal), resultin...