The Steel Guitar Forum

Yes, more playing time and traveling

A big THANK YOU to all the many supporters of Deluxe34. 15 years of fun talking to some of the greatest steel players to ever pick up a bar. It’s been a pleasure and an honor. Thanks to Gerald Ross for buying the first one and giving it a rave review when I posted them on the forum. Thank you to all...

Nice, seeing that I would pronounce it E-lec-TAR!

Thanks Ian, that's what I was wondering

wow, I've never seen a horseshoe in a hollowbody, cool

Let me know how the brackets work out for that Supro.
I'm not sure how the backside looks on those

Excellent! Love it......the only thing missing is the choir of male voices singing in unison

I know this is technically a pedal steel, the first Bigsbys seem to be in that grey area when pedals were meant for retuning rather than melodic use. Anyway, I thought a lot of non pedalers would be interested in the restore of Speedy West's Bigsby by Todd Clinesmith in the current Fretboard Journal

They look great on there Bill
So glad I got it right!

This lap steel is 29", I think it fits pretty well
I have an extra one of these. I bought 6 for some lap steels I had without cases. I sell it for what I paid.

Short scale?

I don't think the one for sale is JMs first...the head stock looks different. I think there was a second one made followed by the famous console. So I'd wonder how much playing the second one actually got before the console arrived.

Thanks again Steven for all your hard work and efforts

I like it when the pick ups start to get "microphonic".
It adds to the transparency of the touch and tone of the pick up. IMHO

So the first Bigsby pedals were plungers, didn't know that!
He must have went to cables pretty soon after that

Great event to donate to......guardians of the lap steel must keep this alive!!!!!!

Looking forward to playing and some warmer weather

Great find, cool to hear the back to back comparison too

back in 1992 I was playing with a band that would introduce the song as "Sleepwalker" every time I played it.

Yes I currently have that experience, every time too

Selling like hot cakes!

Lefty, 4.00 will cover the shipping

I wonder if the angle of the strings coming off the nut (or bridge ) on a higher nut effects the feel and tone. It does create more tension in the string. Not sure of the physics involved, but strings going through the nut nearly flat feel looser to me.

TTT

Hi Lefty
You can PayPal me at
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If you email me your shipping address I can tell shipping, usually 4 to 5 dollars