The Steel Guitar Forum

I'm with Todd here, no splice-y! Don't want to step on Todd's toes if you're getting wood from him but I have quite a few sets of Weiss-sized wood I can part with including flamed mahogany, mango, myrtle and walnut.

The guy playing standard had what looked like Lollar Supro and Gold Foils (looked too nice to be vintage) and the slide guy had a Teisco/Lollar foil in the front and Harmony-style at the bridge. Good stuff!

Holy flying chips Batman, that is some cool stuff!

I just cringe when hear all this talk about re-fining and re-chroming. Even in rough (but playable) shape they are only original once....

A steel body single cone roundneck
A Walnut bodied single cone roundneck baritone
2 'Resolectrics'
And a mahogany tricone 'Weissonator' squareneck

All home built.

Rickenbacker did lots of things other than guitars back in those days. They were first associated with National/Dobro when they were contracted to stamp the bodies for resonator guitars. Pretty cool little item.

http://www.rickenbacker.com/history_early.asp

Seems like he could have taken a few moments during that lame-assed video to write Larry a check....

Sounds nice and great playing.

Clint Searcy in Nashville.
searcystringworks@gmail.com

Oh I think it sounds great. Should have said so in my first post.

Are you using a Mac? Mine would do too that until I found the 'reverse' button.

Although I never trademarked the name, I've been building 'Weissonators' since 1999. Be great if you could call yours something else to avoid confusion.

Didn't know he made left-handed models!

Oof, couldn't disagree more. Love the original 'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac' blues band with Jeremy Spencer on slide and Green and Kirwan on guitar. Certainly the best of the early British blues groups. Nothing against later members, it was great pop, but not what I prefer. http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Holy cow. It makes me feel like a chimp when I see someone that can play like that....actually there are probably some chimps that can play better than me.

Old news. If you need one give him a call. Edit: I just saw that the vid was posted this year so maybe Ric has reared it's ugly head again. Hope not, I've built several guitars with them over the last couple years and that would be a real shame to not have them available just because Ric is owned an...

Stephen what makes you say that? I'm looking at one on my desk right now.

Gotta love the gold foils!!!! If you can find the DeArmond with the row of screws down one side- those are the Cooder approved foils that people pay big bucks for! The 'Coodercaster' 'foils are Teiscos and have the pole pieces on the outside (as opposed to the pictured ones). They are indeed expens...

Very nice. I can't hear that tune without thinking of the Blues Brothers in the elevator.

Nice Mike!
I see you're carrying No Shave Nov. over to the new year too!

Lotsa kewl guitars in that book!

Yeah he's got a great system!

http://www.amazon.com/Claptons-Guitar-W ... 0743266366

To expound on Marc Eaton's comments on the 'ridiculous prices' of some custom guitars. What tends to happen is this: A: Guitar builder makes a great product. B: People discover this product C: More people discover the product D: So many people discover it that the maker can hardly keep up, so he rai...

Because of the way they turned the cover you're forced to play way ahead of the bridge, which is sometimes where you want to play, but you can't play near the bridge at all. I also wonder how much not having the two cones on the bass side makes in the sound.