The Steel Guitar Forum

Gruhn's has an A-25 and an A-22 for sale.

I own a small business and although I do not build guitars what I do is similar to the manufacturing process. In order to do a professional and precise job (which is necessary for a musical instrument) you need to have the proper equipment which is very expensive. CNC machines are at least $9000 and...

Tom Morrells' Bigsby is a Triple 10 but he only had two of the necks strung up. If you go to Ricky Davis' website www.mightyfinemusic.com/ and then click on house of wood, you will see many great guitars as well as a Triple 10 Sho-Bud non-pedal.

I mentioned earlier that Elva "read my mind" concerning the design of my guitar: When I ordered it I requested that all of the metal parts be chrome plated but I forgot to mention chrome tuning knobs...When I got the photos' from Elva I thought of this when I noticed that the tuners were w...

Travis the guitar is based on the Stringmaster. The scale on this guitar is 22.5 string spacing is 3/8". All of the metal parts were chromed at my request. As far as pick-ups are concerned, Elva winds his own and people have e-mailed me saying that he is great at winding pick-ups and that they ...

Thank you for the compliments George. Elva is great to deal with. I was very specific in what I wanted and he built for me exactly what I wanted. It is a great feeling when a person/builder/artist such as Elva West listens and is exact in the finished product. In a way, he read my mind.

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Elva West is great!!! He has kept me up to date on the progress of my guitar, is great to deal with and a fine gentleman. I would encourage anyone to purchase one of his fine guitars. My guitar should arrive next week and Elva sent me these photos' of my guitar that are beautiful. http://www.chartre...

I am not speaking for Jerry Byrd nor anyone else but I read about that “story” in a book years ago so please do not take what I write as total fact for it is from a distant memory. What was written in the book told of a group of musicians talking backstage at the Grand Old Opry after Hank Williams d...

I am not speaking for Jerry Byrd nor anyone else but I read about that “story” in a book years ago so please do not take what I write as total fact for it is from a distant memory. What was written in the book told of a group of musicians talking backstage at the Grand Old Opry after Hank Williams d...

Hi to all. I have been in e-mail contact with Elva West the past few months and I am interested in purchasing one of his double neck non-pedal guitars. I have read nothing but high praise about Mr. West and his guitars. I would like to see some photos of his work and am asking if any forum members w...

Check out this website. http://chartrecords.net/ We were very fortunate to interview Lloyd Green. He is a very fine person and a true gentleman.

Thank you so much Mike Weirauch. For those of you who are interested the address for the page (which is still in the works)is http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/s/h/sherryt1/ . Also, Happy Birthday to Lloyd Green. <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by ...

A friend and I have been working for the last three years collecting all albums from the Chart Record label. Finally, we have accomplished our goal!!! For those of you who do not know, Chart was an independent record label in Nashville from the late 60’s through the early 70’s. Chart Records recorde...