The Steel Guitar Forum

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If you don't mind a mismatched set, 2 vintage, 1 modern, there's leg sockets like https://www.sillmusicsupply.com/Alluminum-6061-CNC-socket-to-attach-your-lap-steel-legs_p_23.html (but you have to buy at least 3...) Yeah, and unfortunately that would also seemingly (and expensively) mean all new le...

Hi all! I recently came across a Magnatone console steel with one leg insert somehow permanently threaded into its socket by the previous owner. It took a machine shop to finally get the duo apart, but - as I reasonably suspected before I even got to the shop - the threads on both the socket and the...

Erv, yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'm not totally clear on how I can try to replace it yet, but I think that may be the crux of the issue. With your "stock" unit (and I know it's collecting dust), did you ever have this problem with maintaining engagement on the sprocket? Thanks for j...

Hey everyone. I obtained this very old DeArmond / Rowe Industries volume pedal along with a steel I just bought. It's one of the very early ones that don't have a model number anywhere and have a hardwired output cable. I'd like to give it to a friend who is trying to get into lap steel but still ne...

If it's still available *I* would like to purchase this guitar.

Amen, Doug. They call it "differing learning styles" in my industry.

Thank you, gentlemen. I do have plenty of experience teaching, just not so much on the steel; another factor is that my friend is in California while I'm in OK. I've never been a big fan of Mel Bay books generally, but I must also admit I've never looked at Scotty's book. It might be a good affordab...

A good friend of mine in her mid-30s, and with no prior experience with ANY musical instruments, got interested in lap steel and has just picked up an old 6-string. I have 30+ years of multi-instrumental experience / formal musical training, and I'm still frankly a steel dilettante, but I've done ba...

I wouldn't worry too much about whether a string is "in" standard E9th or whatever. At the end of the day, what matters most is your own playing style and what sort of tuning serves that style best. You might even want to use your 8-string as a 7-string for a while until you figure out wha...

So, if I understand this correctly, you're thinking about throwing a C# up a M6 *above* the 2nd-string E4? One concern I'd *personally* have with that is that you have such wide intervals between your top three strings that they'd be more difficult to use for good-sounding melodic runs, etc. I also ...

RE synthesis...there are alternatives to storing and recalling sampled or synthesized wave forms, thus enabling using the real time nuances such as where and how the string is excited etc. Exactly what I mean by using physical modeling - the DSP "imagines the string," has enough informati...

Also, on "what's the market" - possibly not current steel players, but I think both kinds of technology under discussion could be invaluable in attracting new players to the field and leading to a revival of PSG interest / design changes. I can't help but think that a lot of younger dudes ...

Some exciting new stuff here - thanks particularly to Messrs. Cowell and Packard for your very interesting input. I'll have to look into the info here once I've had a few brain-clearing rounds of joe. On synthesizing the steel-- good chance it would be an entirely different instrument, but it could ...

RD - That crazy guitar I pointed you to also has programmable tunings. You can be in standard tuning and then go to a different tuning right in the middle of a song, and then back again. The limitations are the string gauges. But believe me, I'm not trying to sell you one. Ah, so, Bud, this kind of...

Dickie, no disrespect perceived! And sorry for the misread, the prescription in these glasses is a year or two out of date.

I'm personally not as interested in a guitar that tunes itself, although it would be nice for some folks and I guess it could be something added on. Simultaneously, I'm personally *very* interested in a "virtual PSG / lap steel" like what I describe above, especially for lap steel applicat...

To maintain the feel of the pedals, you would want a proportional system that would respond to partial pedal depressions and different pedal speeds. I wonder how one would make the pedal controller. Each pedal has to send a variable voltage to control the servo motor. What that be, a voltage divide...

Thanks, everyone, for the input. For the time being this is not something that would ever be intended for production, but the advantages-- hot-swappable pedal changes in particular-- are pretty cool to contemplate. I think right now we're trying to see if it's something that can be applied in a much...

Hey all. This may get interesting, or at least I hope it will. A friend of mine who's into robotics has been getting interested in ways to move changers and B-bender-type devices electronically. As a first step to selecting some parts to experiment with, we need to have some idea what kind of torque...

Folks, sold. Thanks for the additional interest. Please close.

James, I think you're referring to the speakers. There's an old Stromberg-Carlson console and a pair of ADS / Braun L700s in the background, among other things.

Sale pending, pending shipping calculation and receipt of funds.

This is an early GFI student model, GFI says that it is from 1993. Black mica with 3 pedals and 4 knees. Has a Barcus-Berry pickup which I strongly suspect is factory equipment. I owned a much more recent GFI student model at one point and construction looks very similar to me, but this is an SD-10 ...

Al, I don't think this is that strange from what I've seen. I've been lurking here a couple years now and I see a great number of ads posted on behalf of non-forumites. It just wasn't made clear in the ad. The seller did sort of the same thing to me-- answered to "Ed?" when I first called,...

The guitar is sold to me.

Sorry if my cautious wording confused anybody. In my shoes I wouldn't take the word of a buyer over the seller. But I definitely bought the guitar.