First Pedal Steel...Cleaned & Painted....(PICS ADDED)

Instruments, mechanical issues, copedents, techniques, etc.

Moderator: Shoshanah Marohn

Post Reply
Wayne Franco
Posts: 1292
Joined: 24 Sep 1998 12:01 am
Location: silverdale, WA. USA

Ha Ha Ha

Post by Wayne Franco »

You guy are cracking me up! That guitar may have some "Bite" to it. :) Was that model generally played on outside gigs?
Top
User avatar
Danny Hall
Posts: 215
Joined: 29 Dec 2009 3:20 pm
Location: Nevada, USA

Post by Danny Hall »

Sure looks like the very likeness of one to me. Photogenic cuss ain't he? Not very ambitious if he hung around for the move though.

My Dad hung his shirt on a shovel leaned against the fence while gardening years ago. When he put the shirt on to go inside one of those guys bit him seven times across his back. Scars were there for the rest of his life.
The Last of the World's Great Human Beings. Ok, well maybe one of the last. Oh alright then, a perfectly ordinary slacker.
Top
User avatar
Ross James
Posts: 32
Joined: 29 Mar 2010 10:30 am
Location: Sacramento, CA

Post by Ross James »

brown rusler...nice! yup that old arachnid is still there, haven't taken an air compressor to the guitar yet. i'm glad somebody caught that! i thought it was pretty funny.
Top
bob Ousby
Posts: 270
Joined: 3 Mar 2008 12:57 pm
Location: Nevada, USA

Post by bob Ousby »

Ross...You can call yours the "Reclus-ler". I was in Sacto yesterday and stopped in at Village Guitar Werkes in the Town & Country Village shopping center (2934 Fulton). They are steel guitar savy and are trying to build that end of the business. Nice folks....Bob
Top
User avatar
Tony Glassman
Posts: 4470
Joined: 18 Jan 2005 1:01 am
Location: The Great Northwest

Post by Tony Glassman »

That guitar looks like it was sold out of Webb's Music Center the birthplace of Webb Amplifiers.

I remember going out to Antioch to pickup a new first run Webb amp from John Campbell. They had just taken delivery on their first Rus-ler. It was a D-10 transparent lime green pin-striped birds-eye maple cabinet. It was beautiful and horrific at the same time. I lusted for it!

Rus-ler guitars were probably the pinnacle of "Hillbilly Art". They were to steel guitars, what Nudie suits were to formal wear.
Top
User avatar
Ross James
Posts: 32
Joined: 29 Mar 2010 10:30 am
Location: Sacramento, CA

Post by Ross James »

here are some pics of the Rus-ler after i cleaned it up and painted it. came out alright...still need to touch it up and clean a few spots...

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image
Top
User avatar
Stu Schulman
Posts: 6526
Joined: 15 Oct 1998 12:01 am
Location: Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)

Post by Stu Schulman »

Very cool guitar! ;-)
Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952.
Top
Danny Letz
Posts: 1973
Joined: 24 Feb 2006 1:01 am
Location: Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540

Post by Danny Letz »

The first pedal steel I ever owned was just like that one and mine was in like new condition. I got rid of it before I really knew what I was doing. For no more that I got for it I should have kept it. I guess you shouldn't keep all of them, but there's something about your first guitar.
Top
User avatar
chris ivey
Posts: 12703
Joined: 8 Nov 1998 1:01 am
Location: california (deceased)

Post by chris ivey »

wow ross..great job! looks like you've at least doubled your money now. you really did some serious clean-up on that changer. good work!

now it's a ross-ler!
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Pedal Steel”