The Steel Guitar Forum

Hello GCG lovers, it's been a while. Post your guitars! Here's my '54. Do you play a Console Grande? What do you love about it? I like the sound and the overall aesthetic. The engraved name plate is a reminder of an earlier and more elegant era. As I recall; my guitar is a 1940 model. http://www.pi...

……Ever since I got into this thing, I knew I’d HAVE TO have me an Emmons at some point. Already found one for a good price, and it’s been professionally rebuilt by a reputable guy, ready to go. It’s a Legrande ll, which of course is an all pull. I’ll probably end up buying it as soon as my banjo is...

George Rout wrote:Does anybody have a guesstimate sale price for this guitar please?

It seems that Guitar Center has one for $1350 albeit without a case.
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Gibs ... 374381.gc

So your $1500 with a good case is right in the ballpark

I play an 8 string square neck dobro, my band is doing some songs that have dobro. I can get by on my steel, but would prefer to use my dobro. I’ve looked and done research and have not come across a good pickup solution for an 8 string reso. My other option is to use a sm57 or sm137 and run into a...

I have an old Guvnor resonator with an under saddle strip pick-up. When I plug it in to any amp or DI the 1st and 2nd strings don't have anywhere near the same volume as the rest. I've changed the strip twice with the same result every time. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Roy what st...

Randy Cook wrote:Everyone is talking about clutch....what and where is a clutch.

Inside the compression collar which is threaded on to the leg is a compression clutch to hold the legs in place.


Perhaps some will post some photos to explain what we are discussing.

It is particularly rare to see the mute on the 1940 Console Grande's.

My 1940 appears to have never had a mute installed.

They are great Steels although the scale-length is on the shorter end of the scale-length range.

My MSA Classic is the only PSG I've ever owned. Bought it new as local music store…. Bit I know a lot of you have owned and still own many steels, and I wonder what makes you choose to buy a particular one. What's most important? I have been through several PSG’s and I still have my first (MSA), a ...

Malcolm McMaster wrote:Scott Dixon steel guitar seats are first class, light weight, strong.

Malcom; these look like nice seats. However when I looked on their web site https://www.scottdixoninc.com/ ; I saw nothing about this product.

Learning to mute strings from the beginning of our learning is a very good idea. This should be obvious now; and it will become even clearer in hindsight. There is a trade-off between being a versarile picker and ease of muting. Making the effort to obtain good and comfortable fit with all of your f...

Paul; many guitars have been retrofitted with a modern double-acting truss rod specifically to allow adjustments in neck bow to be possible without further major surgery. The short answer is yes. What can not be done is to change the bracing dynamically to be optimized for very-light or very-heavy g...

... The Fishman system is pricey and professional installations is "recommended" along with some kind of adjustable spider. h Howard et al; In what manner does the spider need to be adjustable which a standard Dobro spider would not be? Or to ask this another way: why and how does the spi...

I have no idea about street prices these days; my guess is that most of you have a better idea than I do about what the fair market value is on them. Until about a month ago I was down to 1 electric lap steel; but I now have second lap steel; albeit a project guitar which is in need of a few parts. ...

Are you sure it’s a note? Most of the time an x mean a chocked note. I appreciate your post, but the book in question explicitly designated the x in their notation as a fretting behind the bar. I think many of us would love to see a photo of the page which showed the exact language and context of...

I use a different bars on my different PSG’s.

I ordered a custom bar from bulletbars.com when I got my U12; I still use that bar on my U14. $25 for a custom made bar was a no-brainer.

I used a Shubb-Pearse on my Sierra D8.

I haVe standard bullet bar for the D10.

You’re correct, Patrick. The Harp pedals I have seen look more like ones under a grand piano and are much shorter. My other guess would be an actuator set for a multi-function punch press. That would be Industrial, not Musical. Seems to be angled for left-footed access. Some one will chime in soo...

Hi all. I've been practicing with my old Ernie Ball VP Jr. and it's a bit scratchy no matter how much contact cleaner I use, so I thought it's time to try a better pedal. I'm gonna try a Goodrich passive volume pedal, but can't decide High or Low profile. How do you choose High or Low profile? Why ...

Thanks; for decades I have gone through the post, the doubled back and made a loop around the string where it entered the post. Then I use the stringwnder to bring it up to tension.

I will try to use the KISS method on this guitar when I am ready to restring another neck.

I recently picked up a used Fender Custom and tonight I set out to change the strings on 1 of the necks. I started playing Guitar over 40 years ago; and I have owned a broad variety of various guitars; this is the most difficult instrument to change strings on that I have ever owned. The tuning pans...

The guitar has a 24.5” scale length. Pedal lengths vary between about 4.75” and 11.” This is an odd duck of a guitar; but I think it will be fun to get it in to to good working order to play and try some new tunings. I still need to obtain a pair of legs for it; the right-side legs Are missing...

Bill Fisher wrote:How do you know it's from a guitar?

Bill

I do not know that these pedals were from a guitar originally. They could have been taken from some other type of apparatus originally.

These pedals are from one of my instruments. I would gladly post additional photos if doing this would help.

I am hoping that someone can identify this assembly

What was Mike Cass able to tell you about its whereabouts?

This year I’m putting twin turbos and nitrous on my gear!! I have never experimented with using a Nitrous System for PSG. I am thinking that a little nitrous might make my bad playing more tolerable to me when I mess up. And nasal cannula’s would not add to the weight of my rig. But I have a fe...

I spent quite a bit of time looking over Sneaky Pete’s B6 copedant a long time ago and I still think of it as being in the spirit of Universal tunings. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix0903/5032_400_B6_92_copedent_1.jpg It is very much a hybrid of C6 and E9 tunings; yet was neither exactly. ...