The Steel Guitar Forum

Thanks so much, folks, for your input. I took the pedal to the local shop and went over it thoroughly with my friend, who is a tech. She and I got the thing moving so smoothly--it's fantastic. I cleaned the yellow stuff (appears to be beeswax? earwax??) off the vol put and left it on the tone pot. D...

I just scored a great vintage Fender volume/tone pedal, but it's got an issue with slippage on the volume string. After using the pedal for a few minutes, the volume gets really low. Cranking the pedal all the way back restores the vol. but it's annoying. Does this just need a new string? There is a...