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Topic: Adjustable Knee Levers |
Don Brown, Sr.
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 12:44 pm |
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Does anyone know what year it would have been when the Major (better known) steel builders, started making their knee levers "easily" adjustable to the players needs? (meaning adjustable for a wider or more narrow space between them).
PS: Added since original post:
I was wondering if anyone knows (to be more specific) the specific year that adjustable (user friendly, on the job) knees came out on any one Pedal Steel. "Someone had to be the first, and I'm simply wondering who that was?
Thanks
Don
Last edited by Don Brown, Sr. on 27 Dec 2007 11:20 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Bo Borland
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 2:13 pm
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MY 74 MSA had adjustable knee levers.. depending on the direction either you moved the clamp on the cross rod or the small reversing rods to make the adjustments.. The modern steels are way easier..
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 7:19 pm
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Don, I don't know if this can be of any help but on my home built I have the lever hitting a spring loaded adjusting screw on the lever bell crank. It is a fingertip adjustment.
Edited for picture: You can see the adj screw to the left of the knee lever
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 7:51 pm
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The new MSAs have thumb screws with which you can set the angle of the knee levers. The bases of the levers of course do not move, but by adjusting the angles, you can make the part where your knee hits them as far apart as you wish.
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 8:06 pm
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As far as steelbuilders, I regard the
'Miller Custom' as 'significant'
as opposed to 'Major', but, fwiw, the
one I got in the early '70's had knurled
screws that allowed for adjustment of each
of the four knee-levers 'Angle-of-Dangle'.
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Paul Redmond
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 10:38 pm
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And, Russ, they still work well!!
PRR |
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 11:13 pm
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Russ, that's why I worded it as I did. The question is though, I was wondering if anyone knows (to be more specific) the specific year that adjustable (user friendly, on the job) knees came out on any one Pedal Steel. "Someone had to be the first, and I'm simply wondering who that was? Us backwoods country folks don't always explain things too well the first time around...  |
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 27 Dec 2007 11:34 pm
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Sorry, Don, I only thought the info might lend some interest to your thread here, hence the 'fwiw' in my post.
I'd be mildly curious to know the definitive answer, though I'm afraid much of this type of information regretfully
wasn't recorded at the time of it's inception, making it now more 'iffy' to pinpoint.
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 28 Dec 2007 8:17 am
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Russ,
No apology needed. Your input is both welcomed and appreciated as are all others.
I believe that change would have been so important to the ones who before, had no simple way of adjusting their knee levers, (which we all know, one size in spread does not fit all comfortably) that it may have been remembered by some.
"Angle of Dangle" That's a good one.... Don |
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Martin Weenick
From:
Lecanto, FL, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2007 11:27 am Adjustable levers
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Don, I build my own guitars and make all my levers adjustable from the top. No peeking under the guitar with a flashlight and no wrenchs needed. Makes things a lot easier. Martin.
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 28 Dec 2007 1:27 pm
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Wow! Martin, it's evident you've given lots of thought into detail, as well as quality into your steel. Excellent! I must add, the roller design is really quite unique too. Your parts look to be very well designed and constructed. Be sure to let us see it when it's completed.
Congratulations! Excellent! Job well done. Thanks for sharing those great pics with us.
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Robert Harper
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2007 1:34 pm Well Built
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Wow with an exclamation point I could even undrestand how this one is built
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