Anapeg Guitars

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 2 Feb 2007 5:48 am

I had a feeling that Ken would be a Marmite lover.....

I consume massive amounts of it - then take blood-pressure pills to counteract all that sodium!

'My Mate, Marmite'!

RR

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 2 Feb 2007 5:49 am

ooops!

Grant Ferstat · Post by **Grant Ferstat** » 15 May 2008 5:38 pm

So, aside from the Vegemite bashing (I love the stuff btw) does anyone here HAVE an Anapeg guitar.

What is this waiting list that everyone speaks of, I take it there's a long queue? What is it that makes them special is there any particular innovation or is it just a question of great quality, build etc.

tom anderson · Post by **tom anderson** » 15 May 2008 7:36 pm

I have Noel's prototype for his current guitar-Anstead #001-u-12. It was originally owned by Ned Dodd & I got it from Ed Bierly. I have worked with Noel on adjusting this for the last year or so (all over the phone) & after getting it set, it is the smoothest playing steel with the best tone of any of my steels (& I have 6 different steels). I just had a u-12 PP Emmons reworked, and although it is an awesome guitar, it pales compared to the Anapeg. Noel has said he is only making a few more guitars because of his bad back, & I have been in line for 5 or 6 years to get a new one. If it works out, I'll have it in about 16 months. This is Noel & Ned Dodd in front of my guitar!

This is the changer with a dual tap. Note the large magnets that cover two strings. He tells me he does a blade pickup now.

Jeremy Threlfall · Post by **Jeremy Threlfall** » 15 May 2008 7:40 pm

Thats the first keyed Anapeg I have seen a picture of.

I assumed they were all keyless

tom anderson · Post by **tom anderson** » 15 May 2008 7:50 pm

He switched to keyless shortly after this guitar. This may be the only keyed guitar he made, I'm not sure. I sure don't mind the keys. Here is a picture of the underside. Not easy to work on-the bellcranks have the set screw up against the body. He does it different now with the set screw on the side, but still not as easy as others. He feels that he sets the guitar up for the player, so the copedient doesn't need to be changed! Those knee levers are both vertical levers.

Jeremy Threlfall · Post by **Jeremy Threlfall** » 15 May 2008 8:58 pm

Hey Grant

I love your band.

I'm moving to Perth in a month or so, I'll look forward to seeing you guys live!

Grant Ferstat · Post by **Grant Ferstat** » 15 May 2008 9:48 pm

Jeremy Threlfall wrote:Hey Grant

I love your band.

I'm moving to Perth in a month or so, I'll look forward to seeing you guys live!

Hey Jeremy, thanks a lot!

For the next month or two we'll be mostly finishing off an EP but we'll be out and about after that so I'll look forward to seeing you.

Don Drummer · Post by **Don Drummer** » 16 May 2008 6:40 am

What? No more posts about samidges?

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 17 May 2008 3:23 am

Especially for Roger :-
Guinness flavour AND Champagne !!

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Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 17 May 2008 11:25 am

...what about BOVRIL ! Much better than Marmite and it has real Bovs in it..

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 18 May 2008 2:14 pm

Vegemite is the stuff we love down under ...Marmite is for packing the wheel bearings on Morris Minors !

Noel will only sell a guitar to a Vegemite lover!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 18 May 2008 4:58 pm

I passed my driving test on a Morris Minor. I can't remember smelling any Vegemite on it, though.

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 18 May 2008 6:48 pm

Maybe something a Similar colour though !!

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 26 Oct 2008 12:30 pm

The secret to eating Vegemite is to spread it thinly - very thinly. First, make your toast. Then apply your butter (and only butter, none of that nasty yellow grease they call margarine), then take a small amount of Vegemite on the tip of the knife and spread it so thinly you can see through it to the butter in some "streaky" areas.

Now you're "cooking with gas" as we say Down Under.

Oh, in an emergency, Vegemite can also be used for greasing ball-joints, re-packing bearings, re-soling shoes and colouring paint black. But spread thinly on toast it's ambrosial.

Wish I'd heard about Anapeg steels earlier, though. I get to Queensland quite a bit.

tom anderson · Post by **tom anderson** » 3 May 2009 4:40 pm

Although this is really a post about Vegemite, I did get my new Anapeg about 2 weeks ago. It's a 10 string short universal with 4 pedals & 5 knee levers. Though I have his prototype & thought it was a smooth playing guitar, this one smokes it. Noel did a great job & the guitar was worth the wait.

The last photo is the frame before he attached the "timbre". When I asked him if the new guitar was playing better because a) better mechanics; b)better lubrication; c) better rod placement; d) all of the above, he said "d)".
All right, back to the Vegemite.

By the way, the pickup is a blade pickup he winds with 2 taps. The changer pulls outward kind of like the Excel or the new Williams.

Brad Malone · Post by **Brad Malone** » 3 May 2009 6:37 pm

The changer pulls outward kind of like the Excel or the new Williams.<<

It is my understanding that Bill Rudolph gave his permission to let Anapeg use his changer on their Steels.

Ivan Posa · Post by **Ivan Posa** » 3 May 2009 9:00 pm

Brad, Noel has been using this changer design since the early 1990s. It is his own design and owes no part of its design to anyone else.

Bill Fisher · Post by **Bill Fisher** » 3 May 2009 9:13 pm

Noel has used his own design since 1986.

Bill

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 3 May 2009 10:41 pm

The Williams changer is a normal rotating type, only the shape is different from the "norm".
It doesn`t pull outward.Unless there`s a new one after the 700 series...

Ivan Posa · Post by **Ivan Posa** » 4 May 2009 1:35 am

Here is the correct chronology of the Anapeg changer. "Original changer unit design using a pin to locate the string was in 1986. Using the hole in the end was used first in 1993 & the current design, bird beak, was in 1995."

Brad Malone · Post by **Brad Malone** » 4 May 2009 6:08 am

Ivan, I could be wrong but I believe that in conversation it was mentioned that permission was granted from Bill at Williams to Anapeg for the use of the Williams style changer in the Anapeg Steel. When asked why, reply was that so few Anapegs were made and that a certain friendship between the two existed.,,just hearsay...nothing in writing..take it for what it is worth..maybe nothing

Bill Fisher · Post by **Bill Fisher** » 4 May 2009 12:50 pm

Hello, Brad. I'd like to make a quick comment. From the tone of your last 2 posts, it seems you really believe what you think you heard. But I must point out that what you think you heard, you probably didn't. However, with the slight chance you did hear what you thought you heard, then I must say, the one that was talking while you were hearing was incorrect. The ANAPEG guitar, in its entirety, was designed and built by one man; with his own ideas. And that same man is still building what I believe to be the BEST steel guitar on the planet. I realize you post what you really believe. I'm just trying to help you understand that you got it wrong this time. Take care.

Bill

Ivan Posa · Post by **Ivan Posa** » 4 May 2009 1:04 pm

Brad, I can assure you that the Anapeg changer owes nothing in its design to either the Williams or any other changer design. It is strictly Noel Anstead all through.

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 4 May 2009 1:30 pm

Tom,. how about a few close-ups of that "bird's beak" in the changer in your photos?. It sure looks like the 400 or 600 series changer of the Williams guitar. Hard to tell without a closer look. Thanks, steve

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