The Steel Guitar Forum

Like many of you, I learned twice from Bill's books, first from the Earl Scruggs book, then from the Pedal Steel book. Bill was a musician's musician, a gentleman, and a scholar. Rest in Peace, Bill. We all loved you.

Michael,

Thanks! The SGF is the greatest place. I'll get some measurements off the rods and place an order. Tom was in the process of moving his shop or he would have replaced them when he did the rest of the work. I'm looking forward to putting this finishing touch in place.

Thanks again,
--Joe

I finally refurbished a Sho-Bud Pro I that I bought here on the forum a few years ago. Tom Bradshaw added a knee for me and gave it a really great tune up. The one thing I'd like to do now is to replace a couple of the end tuner nylon nuts. Anybody know where I can get some hexagonal nylon nut stock...

Congratulations my friend!! This was fantastic! Loved the harmonics at the end. I checked in here pretty late, but gotta say I'm really happy for you and hope you get many more of these.

Great advice above to contact Martin and ask. The solvent I've personally used for years on guitars (including a 1977 D-35 I bought new) is lemon oil. With any solvent or cleaning product you end up using, be sure to "turn the cloth over" frequently and/or change the cloth frequently as yo...

The Old Spice Boys are opening a night of Americana music at Don Quixote's International Music Hall tonight at 8pm. The venue is in the town of Felton, a few miles off CA Highway 17/I-880, not far from Santa Cruz and the general SF Bay Area. If you make it to the show, please stop by and identify yo...

I'm planning a visit to the Oceanside area this summer and was thrilled to learn of Jim Palenscar's shop. I will be sure to pay a visit. Thanks for posting this!!

For others interested, here is a URL to the shop's web site: http://stlgitr.com/

I think it depends somewhat on other experience you have playing musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments. I played dobro before starting on steel, so I feel it was easier for me than for someone who had never used a bar before, and certainly easier than for someone who had never used ...

Just saw this job on craigslist:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/muc/701347698.html

Just wanted to weigh in and make a point here about supporting the Forum and Forum Members. For "first come, first served" sales, I personally favor forum posts as a means of establishing who is considered to be "first". This is because the forum server software establishes the t...

Bob Carlucci wrote:His discography on steel is mightily impressive, and thats with A list artists of that era

Bob, can you post a list or URL for Jerry's steel discography? I would love to check that out.

Thanks!

We played a gig at a bar and my NashVille 112, usually quiet as a mouse, was humming badly at playing volume. Two sources of noise there drove my rig crazy: neon lights in the bar and the sound man's PA had an older power filter on it, the kind that dumps its AC noise back onto the common line. Next...

It comes with a special bracket for the steel guitar leg as opposed to some with a mic stand bracket. I love my Peterson Stroboflip! And the bracket Tamara mentions comes in two sizes: if the one that comes with it doesn't fit your steel's legs, they'll send you the other sized one for free. It com...

When I first got mine, I had a similar observation about the L-10K. Would you happen to be playing through an amp or directly into a mixer (for practice)? When played directly into a mixer, I get very little "travel", as you describe. Could this be what is happening to you? My L-10K perfor...

The band I play in is looking for a studio in the SF Bay Area (preferably south bay) that would be a good choice for recording alternative country and Americana type music (Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Bros., etc.), preferably somebody who's seen a pedal steel before. Do you have a Bay Area studio y...

Bill Rudolph (Williams builder) puts notches on the hook ends of the rods to correspond to the rod position (1 notch = pedal 1, 2 notches = pedal 2, etc.). I love this because I can run my thumbnail over the rod and easily tell which is which in pretty dark conditions when setting up. It would be ea...

tommy young wrote:BETTER PAYING JOB THAN PICKING

What d'ya mean? He's trading one kind of picking for another! Just picking grapes, now.

But seriously, welcome to the coast. I don't get down SLO way too often, but if you play any shows up in the Bay Area, let us know when and where!

Best regards,

It's available from Nesmith's "video ranch" site or iTunes as downloads, and maybe from Amazon or elsewhere on a 2 LP CD "And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'/Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash" I bought that double album CD Dave Van Allen mentions and its great. Thanks to everyo...

Drew Howard wrote: No Depression was the name of an an Uncle Tupelo song, no?

I believe the magazine's name is taken from the Carter Family song, "No Depression in Heaven".

Another ND subscriber here who is greatly disappointed to learn this news. What a fantastic source of musical news and inspiration for us to lose. Its a sad day. My condolences to fellow ND readers and to those who never had the pleasure.

Hi Ryan,

Wow! This wonderful forum never ceases to amaze me! I am going to give that tab a try and see what I can make of it.

Thanks very much!

There's this extended upward progression Paul Franklin plays in this very cool YouTube video of him playing with Dire Straits: http://youtube.com/watch?v=W6lIB3mmDH8 that starts at 0:09 and ends around 0:11. I have heard this progression in lots of other songs and would love to figure out. In the vi...

Gary Lee Gimble wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=7XCFG0Y82O0

The guy playing in the video (I think) posted a follow up comment that said something like "the levers are all backwards compared to mine". So what is the setup on this guitar?

Thanks!

The Old Spice Boys will be playing at the Britannia Arms in Aptos, CA on Saturday Feb. 23 at 9pm. If you're in the SF Bay area, I hope you'll stop by and say howdy 'cause I'll be steelin' away the night on my Willy's!

Cheers to all!

I sure wish I lived in Austin! I just ordered Neil's E9th instruction book + CD from his web site. I'll post again when I've received it and had a chance to work with it a bit.

Bump for a steel guitar legend...