The Steel Guitar Forum

A Sho-Bud fret board, An all pull changer, Welding shop pedals (Not Cast), Good looking end plates and legs. Knee levers, Set up proper, It would have possibilities as a first steel for someone. Or a good second guitar to play a Devils Den Bar where a player would not want to take his Sho-Bud LDG. P...

There is a Forum Member Gary Lambillotte, That lives in Medina, OH. I bought a guitar from him, He may know a local player who teaches steel.

When you go down in HUEY LAND, Below the 12th fret. Everything has to be right. Pickup, Amp and Cables. When I changed amps a 2 or 3 years ago, To a Quilter Tone Block 202, I had to also go to heavier cables. With other amps I had used George L .155 cables for years. With the TB 202, The strings bel...

Forum member Gene Haugh was involved with Sho-bud. When sold and moved from Nashville to Arkansas. He worked in the shop in Arkansas. He may have some answers to Baldwin's involvement with Sho-Bud. Hope he sees this.

Another Reverb unknown. Calling it a pedal steel, No pedal bar, pedals or pedal rods shown, Just 3 knee levers. It looks the 5th key may have just been removed from the top key bar, A picture on reverb show screw holes and the shaft hole in key bar. The nut rollers counts out to 10 in the picture. O...

All you would need to do to remove the 5-6-7 pulls. Turn the guitar over. First make a drawing or take pictures of the position on the bell crank holes and the changer bar holes. So if you want to replace them. Loosen the set screw in the brass ferule in the bell crank, On the 5-6-7 pulls. Pull the ...

It is a great deal, But to good to be true. The post on E-Bay has a more realistic price on it. That odd shaped do-bro bar is in all 4 sets of add pictures. In the 4 sets of photos the bar is in the exact same place on the neck. In the E-Bay pictures the bar in 1 picture same as other posts, And in ...

As others suggested. The top of the finger could use a little smoothing and polishing. It could be you have got some bad strings. If the wire stock was not properly heat treated, The string being bent will work harden quickly, From being bent over the finger. Some strings will give a warning they wi...

Some volume pedals use a spring for tension, So the pedal will sit in one place and not move from its own weight or vibration. The spring connects from 1 side of the top section, To the opposite side of the base section, Inside the pedal. This puts side pressure on the bushing on 1 side of the VP an...

The diameter of the pulley depends on the travel distance of the pedal through its cycle from Off/Low volume to High. The larger the diameter of the pulley the slower pot turns, But also limits degrees of rotation of the pot. If you can not find the right size pulley, Send me a private message, I ca...

I had my guitar sitting outside the kitchen back door at a gig one night, Near the stage steps. When I came back there was 2 little white haired ladies arguing, One was saying it was a cheese slicer, The other was saying it was a noodle cutter. On stage I chuckled to myself our whole set. The 2 litt...

Bending rods is easy. Working in a machine shop for bends, When we needed more than 1, We made a simple jig, Just a piece of steel thick enough for bend and a hole, Steel block we could grip in a vice. Drill a hole proper diameter of rod to be bent, And depth of hook tip. Then grind the curve of the...

The way the 5th and 6th strings in the picture is wound on the tuners shafts, Nothing would surprise me on how the guitar is set up. With the George L pick up it should have a good tone, If the right pickup for the guitar. Nice looking guitar, Pull the changer clean out the dried up grease and re ro...

Roger, Putting new strings on a keyless head guitar. Sometimes takes some added tools and a little extra work. My favorite steel is a GFI Keyless. The first time I changed strings on this guitar, I was a little uptight, With no nut rollers (solid steel nut bar) I was worried. I even turned my tuner ...

Did you just change the pedal rod length to adjust the pedal? This change should not have changed the 5-10 pulls timing. If you changed holes on the bell crank or adjust the pull rods length. This could cause the problem you described. If you done anything with the bell cranks or pull rods to make t...

A good aluminum welder could repair it, As good as original. This would allow you to play the guitar.
May want to look for another pedal to have a spare in your stash.
Good Luck and Happy Steelin.

From 1999 when I got a knee lever steel, I had LKL lower E's, LKR Raise E's, Day pedals. In Dec. 2017 I went to Newman's 12 U tuning. RKL raise E's, RKR lower E's. I had little trouble moving and now like them on the Right leg better than on the left. I found that you want your right leg 90 degrees ...

I even moved my E raise and lower to right knee, When I changed to 12U. I had no big problem with the knee levers it took a little wood shedding and all worked out good. The hardest problem I had was with the 10B-8E-6G# grip. On Jeff Newman's 12 Uni. tuning, The grip is now 9B-8E-6G#, A 1 string too...

The shipping price does not look right. Either their shipping soft ware is not programed right. Or if information was put in computer by hand, Someone was having a caffeine or nicotine shake. They pushed on the 9 for 9 pounds and their finger shook and hit two times, Which told the computer 99 lb. a...

That is great work on all parts. May is sound as good as it looks in its new life.

Mr. John Huey is the person I heard refer to the E9th neck as the Money Neck, At the Washington Pa. Steel Show.

I can see no reason to reverse the winding to bottom of the tuner shaft, Unless there is a problem of kind with the nut rollers. On the key heads I like to wind the strings any way I have to, To have a straight pull on string over the nut roller. On some guitars side pressure on the nut roller can c...

If your guitar is a newer GFI Expo, Be careful with the Changer fingers. The newer GFI EXPO's have Stainless Steel Changer fingers. Just wipe them with a clean cloth, Check them close. How long have the strings been on the guitar?? I have 2 GFI Ultras with Stainless Steel Fingers. I Use the knee lev...

Clean the threads on the rod, Find and replace the spacer. Since the hole is drilled from one end to the other of the tuning nut , A quick fix may be just turn the nut around and thread the other end on the rod. But looks like time to get a few spare tuning nuts and spacers to add to your seats stas...

The fret markers up on the front edge of the neck is a great idea. By putting the fret markers up so only the bar and 1 finger breaks up view of fret markers, Makes it easy to know where you are on the neck.