The Steel Guitar Forum

Brett and Tal, thank you both for making it more difficult! All of your suggestions are for sale in Europe so I will be busy.

Thank you all for your thoughts. Jim: shipping the unit twice from Europe to the US only for service is out the question, simply to much time and money. Bob and Dave gave a few good suggestions. I found a tube preamp builder only 70 miles away that specializes in bass amps. Looks promising. This is ...

Suggestions wanted for a Successor to my Mesa studio preamp. Recently my studio preamp needed a major overhaul. €350 later my technician warned me that he could fix all problems but next time I might be not so lucky. When I asked what the problem was he said “old age”. Parts are hard to come by (in ...

I agree to everything that Jay is saying. I too dug into this tuning, expended it a little for an S-12 and fell for it. B0b went for simplicity and called it “hybrid” instead of universal for a reason.
Jay; lets pick up B0b’s legacy on this tuning from here and keep it alive.

I can only tell you that my Fuzzy (1972 resembling yours) was not that well made. It was in nothing comparable to the craftsmanship of modern Excel guitars.
If you post a picture of the undercarriage I can tell you more.

You can also try this on your S-10; remove the C pedal and tune your F knee lever to F#. This way your foot can stay at one place and your muscle memory does the rest.

Yes I recognize it completely. It is the reason I sold my D-10 and replaced it with a S-12 with 4 floor pedals and a hybrid tuning(B0b). Left foot over pedal A&B or left foot over 5&6 The rest of the important changes moved over to the knees. I heart about heated socks I might try that. If n...

Not only for the American steel-player but also for us European players the Forum is a wealth of information, so thank you for that vital role you played in making that available to us. By sharing your individual search for your own copedant you helped me personally by putting me on the D6th trail. ...

I corrected my comment. Who am I to disagree with Jim.

I converted two D-10s in the seventies and I can tell you that the weight gain is not as much as you would probably like to and still no comparison to the GFI. The 73’ msa is a heavy guitar and if you remove a changer and couple of rods you are still left with the same body and the same aluminum fra...

The last guitar Buddy Emmons was in the market for, was a C 6th pedal steel. He wanted a 12 string

I do not use the first slot but the third slot It gives a shorter travel of the pedal, but is a little harder to push down. But I prefer it that way

Everyone seems to know that here on the forum.

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So did Buddy Emmons!

Hey Justin, your last name suggests that you are from Dutch decent. It even means the same as mine, so I say to you in Dutch; “geweldig wat een sfeer”

I thank you for your efforts. In the eighties I made cassettes with BE's recordings and exchange them with my BE-fan friends here in Holland. We had fun but this is so much better. It is obvious that Fish had to skip a lot of important songs to keep his fantastic book within the limits of one volume...

Steve, Amsterdam calling,
The distribution reached Europe.
First impression; Wow, you deserve a statue

Marco, you have got it wrong! I am the friend you are revering to and I did show Jan’s tuning that was printed in a Dutch steel magazine to Jeff in 1977. It was very similar to the universal tuning Jeff started to promote a few years later. Jeff was interested and told me there were people he knew t...

I never saw any reference to this 1996 article here on the forum, so I thought it is not well known. For those of you who like to see how electronic preferences changed in 26 years. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/6394_fffff__1_3_1.jpg https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/6394_1__...

I think we have something in common, so thank you for your efford

Not to forget his contribution to the suite steel album from 1970. The first album to feature the pedal steel as a "pop" instrument.

It is a great comfort to know that even if you play a 30 years old pedal steel and you live on the other side of the world and you need some parts, Jim is there to help you out. It took him a day to make the parts and send them. Then the postal services of the US and the Netherlands took 4 months to...

Thank you. It sounds very spacey I'm going to try it too!

Very refreshing version, excellent playing.

Wow, excellent J.D. That opens up a ton of possibilities.