When I was 18 , I bought a used Maverick (thinking I could play for Poco or Marshall Tucker). After a few lessons, and buying a business, I stuffed it in the attic. I am now 56, been playing 6 stringed slide guitars (weissenborn, dobro, ricky, chandler and cole-clark)but never professionaly.
I also lost my finger tip on my picking hand index finger 10 years ago, which changed the way I played. Recently, I dug out the Mav, but couldnt play it because the linkage was bent. Another respected poster here at the forum was going to "hot rod" it for me, but evidently had health issues, and never returned my emails after our initial conversations. In the mean time, I bought a Carter starter in perfect condition (thinking I could practice while the retrofit was done).
Best thing I ever did, because I discovered that with my "grip" the string spacing was too close together.I felt that I would never play the PSG, unless I could get that wide spacing. Frustrated with 10 strings, (and the constant hitting the wrong strings), I sold the Carter, and was going to give up...
Then I found the thread on the 6 string pedal steel guitar. It was a revelation to me, to say the least. No clunker strings with a wide spacing! SO I searched out someone to modify my Maverick, and found Jimmy Flynn of Lone Star PSG.
He is a very special guy. He makes a 6 string PSG with 3 pedals and 4 knee levers and an E9th tuning-Emmons copedent. He agreed to take my Maverick and re-invent it. Ill be posting pics as the work progresses. Bill
