How many 10 string Bigsby steels are known of.

John Drury · Post by **John Drury** » 17 Feb 2009 1:11 am

Damn See-Mo! Check out Marians guitar! Is that a big chunk of maple on it like Speedy West had? Very Cool!

tom anderson · Post by **tom anderson** » 17 Feb 2009 12:46 pm

As I remember, my friend & steel guitar teacher in
Spokane, Washington-Gary Stewart- had a D-10 Bigsby.
This was in the early 1970's & I didn't realize what he had until years later when he told me that he had sold it because it broke too many strings. He said that he heard it was in a museum in Nashville (?) He could really play that guitar, but I wasn't aware of it sounding much different than my Emmons.

Dale Granstrom · Post by **Dale Granstrom** » 20 Feb 2009 8:03 pm

I built a double ten copy of my original t-8 Bigsby steel from Myrtle wood. There is a fine article about this guitar and also a couple of standard guitars my brother and I built. The article is in the March issue of Vintage Guitar magazine and was written by Deke Dickerson.

I wonder what ever happened to the steel, one of the guitars and the bass.

Dale Granstrom

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 21 Feb 2009 12:48 am

Dale, Deke showed me the pictures of the guitars you and your brother built, wow, truly beautiful looking instruments. The story of how Paul Bigsby and you collaborated with the guitars is also very interesting!