The Steel Guitar Forum

What you basically have there is an approximation of the Don Helms tuning. If I were you, I’d leave the raise on 6 and 7 and use your A pedal to fill out the rest. This will give you F# D# G# E C# B G# E D C# Strings 3-9 will give you a nice E13 tuning. Very usable for the Hank Williams sound, shoul...

Consider that what has kept pedal steel guitar outside the world of “real pro jazz” is not so much the shortcomings of the instrument, or limitations of the instrument or the pedals, but the prejudices held towards the steel guitar. By the time the C6 pedals were being standardized in the mid to lat...

Shot Jackson’s work with Johnnie and Jack, Lloyd Green’s work with Don Williams, Norm Hamlett’s work with Merle Haggard, Bashful Brother Oswald’s work with Roy Acuff.

Hi Damir, I notice the changer is 3 up, 2 down. Is the string spacing the more narrow spacing like a super pro, or is it the wider spacing like an earlier Bud? Is there Super Pro style pot metal parts? Please give me a call, I’m very interested in this guitar. I’ve DM’d you my number. Thanks, Chris

I’m chasing getting some lower voicings on E9 and one of them I’d like to have is the higher seven strings of Bud Isaacs’ original E9 tuning, voiced on strings 4-10: E B G# F# D B G# There’s a few other other “not typical E9” voicings I’m looking to incorporate as well, but I want to keep the basics...

Tony, was it comfortable to press the A pedal and keep that vertical engaged for an entire song? My idea would be to use this combo to play entire songs at a time… Given the other changes I’d have on my copedent, vertical is looking like a likely location for this change.

What does it weigh, in the case?

I’m considering adding a zero pedal change, raising 6 from G# to B and 7 from F# to G#. This, combined with the A pedal would give me a very playable interpretation of Don Helms’ E6 tuning. Would this be too crazy of a pull, if I use a .020 plain for my sixth string? I know a .020 plain from A to B ...

This is an orphan neck off of an early 26” scale Stringmaster. It’s common that people would break these multi-neck guitars up into lap steels, but they never came from the factory this way. This is also not a Fender case. That being said, it’s probably a nice guitar, but should be represented and p...

Is this still available?

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I use the same gauges as Kayton did. It’s really best if you have a 22.5” scale guitar. The string pulls don’t work out as well on longer scale guitars.

.015
.018
.020plain
.022wound
.030
.034
.034
.068 for C6/A7, .056 for F13

I have a copedent I’d like to put on an S10 steel and I need to have a double lower changer to make it work. My main steel right now is a mid 70s 6139 with a 2 up/1 down changer. I love the way this guitar feels but I can’t get that second lower I would like. I know later “Super Pro” style Pro I’s h...

I would recommend C6/A7. Pull your second string from C up to C#, drop your fourth string From G down to F# and you have A6. You can tune the lowest string to either A or C (tuning it to C gives you a full C6… AND between that low C string and the C# string next to it, you can use twelfth fret harmo...

I wasn’t on every show, but appeared in select episodes from each season. I don’t know when the first episode was recorded (early 2008 feels about right), but the first episode featured Earl Scruggs and was the only episode to have no haybales on the set. The first show I guested on was with Chuck M...

Tony Prior, my bass rig with Marty is a Rumble 500 head through a 1x15” Fender Bassman cabinet. For the guitar and/or steel work you might have seen me doing at Roberts, I was most likely using a late 67 Deluxe Reverb though I’ve had spells of using a 73 Vibrolux Reverb, 68 Pro Reverb, and 65 Super ...

If it’s specifically the RFD show you are referring to, I was a guest on every season on that show playing non pedal steel. For most of the first season Marty and Kenny both played Princeton Reverbs. Prior to the show Marty was still using Twins but the band decided to use lower wattage amps for the...

Currently, Kenny is playing through a late 60s dripedge Vibrolux Reverb. From around early 2017 until just a few month’s back, r he was using a blackface mid 60s Deluxe Reverb. Before that, silverface Princeton Reverbs from the early 70s but went to bigger amps as the PR was not quite loud enough on...

I don’t want to modify the standard open E9 tuning, and I really don’t want to lose the 9th string (even if that note would be accessible on a lever). I was pretty much just curious about the reliability and stability of adding a fourth pedal that does what I explained above. A low E can be nice tho...

I’m not interested in playing a 12 string, but see where the obvious benefits would be.

Ricky, I’d still have ABC on my other three floor pedals, would that .042 be under unreasonable strain then when I raise it to C# with the A pedal? I was assuming .038 would be the best compromise gauge for raising to C# and lowering to G#. My reasoning for considering this change, and with 5 raisin...

I’m wondering if on a modern guitar (like a Mullen Discovery, for instance) would it put an unreasonable amount of strain on the changer to make this change: F# D# G# E B……C# + + G# F# E…...D - - D…...B - - - B…….G# - - - I’m asking as I’d like to have an S-10 that is under 50 lbs in the case that w...

I did not have the privilege of personally knowing Dickie, but I did own his three neck Fender Custom for a number of years after he passed. It was an honor to possess it for a while, but I hardly ever need a triple neck so I didn’t use it much. A few weeks back I sold it to a young Nashville area...

String 9 should be a D (not D#), and the standard lower there is to drop it to C#. Yes, raising 1 and 7 from F# to G gives you the minor in an E chord, but I use it more often for getting a seventh against the A chord with the pedals down.

If on a MODERN pedal guitar, I were to have my C pedal work double duty, and pull 4 and 5 one full step on E9 (the typical C pedal change) and ALSO pull 4 on C6 a full step as well, would that cause any issue? I know a lot of players now a days pull 8 on E9 a full step on the C pedal… would pullin...

Johnny, what gauges are you using for D13?