The Steel Guitar Forum

Many thanks to everyone for advice and tips, but most of all, thanks to James Morehead of Prague, OK for mailing me off-thread with a step-by-step guide to setting up my C pedal correctly, based on his own knowledge and experience of the exact same model. Thankfully the process completely avoided ge...

Jon I am indebted for your help. I re-thought my geometry and of course you are correct! Took a look under the Sho-Bud in better light this morning and I can see exactly what needs to happen, now you have pointed it out so clearly. Is there a specification for these c-clips? If Sho-bud just made use...

Thanks Jon. That's all food for thought. Yes my mistake: the A pedal of course raises a whole tone B to C#. I looked at the upper and lower holes you pointed to on my photo (thanks) but my understanding of geometry makes me think the upper holes give me most travel as they are nearer the pivot? And ...

Many thanks for your previous tips in this thread, but I still can't get things the way they need to be. Let's start with the C pedal. The only way I can make an adjustment to raise 4th & 5th strings by a full tone is to extend the range of travel of the pedal (in conjunction with adjusting the ...

Thanks guys. Armed myself with a 5mm hex driver yesterday. Will attempt the re-tune tonight.

Thanks so much, Andy. This is very helpful. I now just need to locate a tool that will fit the hex adjusters! Will let you know how I get on.
J

Just crept in at 39 and 5 months!

Hi All Thanks for the replies so far, for the help and suggestions. I was away at the weekend, but have taken some pics. Wasn't sure about posting them on here, so I've put them up on Flickr (link below). Detailed advice greatly appreciated! John http://www.flickr.com/photos/8586991@N06/sets/7215761...

Hi guys. I'm a bit new to all this. Been playing guitar for many years and am trying to teach myself pedal steel. Bought an old Sho-Bud with 3 pedals and just one lever and doing quite well, I think. Really enjoying it, anyway. One thing is a bit of a challenge, namely my C pedal is set up to raise ...