Formica covered steels look cheap and ugly
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If a Carter is a pig... and a pig looks like Ned's Carter... I'd love to slop a whole barnyard full of them pigs. (And I come from a long line of Maryland pig farmers)
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If a Carter is a pig... and a pig looks like Ned's Carter... I'd love to slop a whole barnyard full of them pigs. (And I come from a long line of Maryland pig farmers)
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Stuart, I never took offense at anything. In fact, I though that you put a lot of thought into your post and I was serious about enjoying having someone who can finally tell me what the heck I was trying to say when I wrote.
P.S.: I loved the picture.
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P.S.: I loved the picture.
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Pardon my drooling... obviously A. macrophyllum... gorgeous, John! Is that BC wood? This might also be a good place to thank you and Bud and the gang for building my lovely(black mica) guitar.
All the best in the new year,
CR, wood lover.
All the best in the new year,
CR, wood lover.
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Chris, go into your settings/control panel/languages. There you can set the keyboard to get any letter/symbol.chris ivey wrote:ulric...where do you get letters like that? my computer keyboard doesn't have that kind of A with the dealy on top.
This particular letter(Å)can be found on the {-[ key after you have set the keyboard to Swedish or Norwegian
The other "odd" letters are Æ-æ and Ø-ø.
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Herb,
I was going to use pink and green "mother of toilet seat" to cover it.
Chris,
Thank you for your business. It might be BC wood. Definitely from the northwest.
This guitar body is one of 3 built out of Sausage Quilt maple.
The D-10 clear lacquer sibling of the S-10DB pictured here should be arriving this week.
They will hopefully be available at the Texas Show.
Metal Necks are planned for these guitars.
Body #3 will be used for #2000. Both it and matching wood necks are being extensively inlayed by a master inlay artist. This will be his first steel guitar. They will then be sent for finishing and should be back sometime in the April-May time frame. If all goes well, we will be showing #2000 and celebrating at the St. Louis show in September.
I was going to use pink and green "mother of toilet seat" to cover it.
Chris,
Thank you for your business. It might be BC wood. Definitely from the northwest.
This guitar body is one of 3 built out of Sausage Quilt maple.
The D-10 clear lacquer sibling of the S-10DB pictured here should be arriving this week.
They will hopefully be available at the Texas Show.
Metal Necks are planned for these guitars.
Body #3 will be used for #2000. Both it and matching wood necks are being extensively inlayed by a master inlay artist. This will be his first steel guitar. They will then be sent for finishing and should be back sometime in the April-May time frame. If all goes well, we will be showing #2000 and celebrating at the St. Louis show in September.
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As owner of the Carter D10 clear lacquer "pig", I just have to say the SD10 cabinet pictures John Fabian posted look just gorgeous. There is going to be one lucky Carter owner somewhere soon. Gotta see some piccies of the finished steel, especially the inlays. Carter no 2000 has to be worth a thread all of its own, surely?
My Carter is causing a huge amount of "Drooling Down Under". I have to carry a mop and bucket so folks can clean up after themselves!
Sausage Quilted Maple is one magnificent piece of wood, plus the guitar has huge tone. I just came from a "show and tell" with two other local steelers and they all agree I have myself a monster of a steel guitar. (One plays a clear lacquer Sho-Bud, the other a black formica Excel...no shortage of good taste there, then!)
My sincere thanks to John and Ann and all the good folks at Carter for such beautiful guitars.
But, I re-iterate, the Cass Emmons restorations are fabulous as well, and the Walnut Promat is something else again!
My Carter is causing a huge amount of "Drooling Down Under". I have to carry a mop and bucket so folks can clean up after themselves!
Sausage Quilted Maple is one magnificent piece of wood, plus the guitar has huge tone. I just came from a "show and tell" with two other local steelers and they all agree I have myself a monster of a steel guitar. (One plays a clear lacquer Sho-Bud, the other a black formica Excel...no shortage of good taste there, then!)
My sincere thanks to John and Ann and all the good folks at Carter for such beautiful guitars.
But, I re-iterate, the Cass Emmons restorations are fabulous as well, and the Walnut Promat is something else again!
The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being.
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Re: Formica covered steels look cheap and ugly
Those black formica Emmons push-pulls of the mid to late 1960's are still the "Stradivarius of Steel Guitars". Maybe we should listen to an instrument with our ears instead of our eyes.richard burton wrote:I hate the look of steels clad in formica, it's just an easy short-cut for manufacturers.
Let's get back to more laquer finishes.
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