The Steel Guitar Forum

Tube: Early Compactra or anything with 807s.
SS: Gretsch GMS, Baldwin D1 and other pre 1980 1-12"s & 1-15"s.
$ or trade up or down.

Thanks for your courage to persevere & good luck in your new adventure. Gene's not around anymore but him and Mitsuo are well known for making custom steels for people with different biophysical set ups. (GFI/Excel steels both still in business). There's the Junior Wah now too, a Dunlop pedal by...

I'm speechless. I hope there is a biography in the works. Condolences & two smiling thumbs up forever.

Condolences to his family & friends. He lives on in his work with steels built as solid as Mt Rushmore and his pickups are epic too. We never met in person but I had the privilege of good conversation. I haven't had a cigarette in decades but danged if I don't miss steels with the ashtray option...

This is a 1950 Champion as indicated by the slotted screws and 1949 pots. There's a few other features unique to these early ones but they aren't visible in the pictures. Very nice and good luck with your sale.

Do you play a modern E9? I like to have Moon licks on tap and I play Day so my pedals are CBAB but on the 4th pedal it lowers string 3 1/2 instead of raising it 1/2. This simple intuitive change unlocks a lot of old California vibe while keeping a standard modern tuning and when improvising, 99% of ...

RIP
What does Bacharach and NWA have in common?
Straight out of Compton


Bacharach's first hit had steel

Is this Fender DP why Burt had the aforementioned aversion to steel intonation?

https://youtu.be/w-SAVuLHdjo

I don’t know if this book has been mentioned yet:
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I never met Freddie but back when we were in Hunter's Point before the internet, I always heard about him and tried to catch him on a few occassions. I remember someone telling me he rode the bus so I always hoped to see him waiting for one so I could corner him. His records were played so hard, it ...

Fuzzy Owen told me back in the day Leo would send whatever they wanted and one of the first or least invasive mods he would do was put 2000 pedals on 1000s. I can't remember which year the no logo case was but that case is at least 6 years newer than the steel too. A lot of my South/Central CA frien...

RIP! I'd send my love but am forever colored by "The Loveless"

I'm with the guys. You can't fry an egg on hot licks. Some of the worst squabbles here were when the dishwasher was on the fritz. I have to conceed to the light crust dough girl on occassion.

This is so sad and unexpected. We hadn't been to visit since covid and were just planning on dropping in next month. I think the first time we hung out in person was when he was selling his Bigsby to someone in San Diego and he stopped to do a gig at the Doll Hut. His Mondays with Red at Trout's wer...

nice-here's one with 9P/705s/plated pedals

RIP. We had some great times and made alot of memories. This one time, Merle asked him to use brushes on this Dole Pineapple cardboard box. Johnny always played an immaculate old champagne sparkle kit. He wasn't real happy about being crouched over the box so I kept telling him I'd metalflake it to ...

RIP Bobbie and condolences to her family. I imagine she must have been the wisest one of all because as much as I'd like to have jammed and grilled her about Buskirkish days and such, she did a real good job of avoiding our impromptu late nite escapades around Poodie's, Lake Travis etc. Happy Trails

I've had a few and they all had vastly different cabinet drop,pedal response and tone but there's one wood neck that haunts me. Everything on it was atypical and it took a lot of forensics to figure out what was going on because it had lot's of factory mods as if it had been in development for a cou...

Man you scared me. When I think of Oscar, I think of sweat and Barney and wouldn't generally attempt anything beyond admiring from afar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdd5pn1xs7M

I still marvel at how he got that hot Spanish and Hawaiian sound through my little TV set speaker. There's a reason why it's cold and dark in California this week. RIP

Neil was a legend and a gentleman. My condolescensces to his family and friends. He was a great teacher and my rudimentary understanding of doublenecks comes from his teachings. Unless you're feeling Curly, the far neck is for I-IV-V and the inside, Right or Wrong is for circle of fifths. Man Neil c...

The steel in the OP pic is a 22.5", not a looong scale.

Sorry for the slow response-I'm getting too old to hand crank this signal generator long enough to keep the router on and type with my free hand. I guess I should upgrade to a solar panel one of these days. Yes, I know of Dude Martin, the fifth floor of the Cliff Hotel (Redwood Room was always my fa...

My Pa was a street performer and there was another dude out there that played stick. When I was young, I spent many a chilly year on the streets warming myself by the fire of his music that wouldn't have been possible if Chapman hadn't had dreamed and luthiered that thing into reality. Here's some m...

I don't think I've posted on no pedals in 20 years so here's an article about Ray Meany. I have a soft spot for Oakland lore because I got a lot of my inspiration from 78s I dug up passing through there as a kid. I would buy the records with the most scratches and cigar burns figuring they were the ...

Nice! I feel sorry for the 9 fingered guy that ordered it thinking it was going to be a better fit.