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Topic: A Couple Of My Lap Steels |
Billy Mostyn
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted 14 Jan 2013 9:02 pm |
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Hi all, I'm a new guy here from the Gold Coast Australia. Just thought I'd introduce myself and post a pic or 2 of my lap steel guitars. I am the owner of GuitarPartsAustralia.com and I make lap & Console Non Pedal Steel Guitars. Mostyn is the brand name. I also wind pickups and produce my version of the Stringmaster pickups. These are Mostone "Vintsteel" 8 string single coils. Here's a couple of my Mostyn "Sofala" series lap steels. 6 and 7 string. I also make 8 string which I will put up photos of soon. This is a great place for steelers.
This photo show a left handed one I made
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2013 5:30 am
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Nice lookin' guitars, William.
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Clinesmith consoles D-8/6 5 pedal, D-8 3 pedal & A25 Frypan, Pettingill Teardrop, & P8 Deluxe. |
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Kevin Brown
From:
England
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Posted 15 Jan 2013 8:41 am
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| sweet n simple, easy on the eye, very nice ! |
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Xavier Baron
From:
Mahina, Tahiti
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Posted 16 Jan 2013 2:59 am
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Nice guitars Billy!  |
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Billy Mostyn
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 16 Jan 2013 3:36 am
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| Thanks guys.I'll probably get some conflicting comments regarding my comments now about nuts but here goes....When I first built a lap steel, I used a bone nut. I was real happy with the tone. However after using brass for 2nd one, I was very surprised indeed of the difference in tone. It made the tone (in my opinion) brighter. I now only use brass for nuts and on my 8 stringers use brass for both nuts and bridges. I give them a little coat of clear laxquer to prevent tarnishing. I have a great friend in Canada (long way from Australia) Bent Romnes who makes really nice pedal steels, Benrom Pedal Steel Guitars, who fabricates nuts, bridges I desigb and also lots of other metal parts. He does an excellent job. He's a great bloke |
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Julian Goldwhite
From:
Alhambra, CA, USA
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Billy Mostyn
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 17 Jan 2013 3:08 am
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Hi Julian,
I also use single coils as I am more into country than blues. Most of the orders I get though for 6 stringers are from players that want a humbucker installed. I have a 6 stringer here that has a humbucker that I love to play country music on and its got a nice warm tone for songs such as Rose Of San Antone etc. However, the 8 string laps and consoles all have 2 single coils I wind to about 8.7k ohms. The bridge pickup is reverse wound/reverse polarity and I wire it up similar to Stringmaster. i.e Volume,Tone and Pickup blender pot. Next one is going to be transparent green over quilted maple. I'll post a picture and hopefully sound clips when it's finished. |
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