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Topic: Eastwood Airline Lap steel / hot rail ? |
Allen Arndt
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Minnesota, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2013 4:09 pm |
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I see ads for above lap and it says it has hot rail pick-up. Is it really? Looks wrong to me.
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2013 10:48 pm
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'Hot Rails' is a Seymour Duncan trademark, IIRC... the pic shows a normal humbucker. A rail pickup has to have a bar in it, somewhere. I have a Hot Rails (Strat-size) in my Fender Champ 6-string, it screams... I tried the Cool Rails, it had too much treble... you need a hotter pickup to take that treble down.
I just got a P-Rails-populated pickguard for my Strat... man, it is nice. Combination P90 and rail coil, splittable with series/parallel option too... and an SVH in the middle, kinda the next evolution of the Duckbucker, with rails instead of (tiny!) pole-pieces. Strat with P90s, I'm in heaven.
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Allen Arndt
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Minnesota, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2013 5:55 pm
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Every ad you see for this lap says it comes with a hot rail and shows the photo as posted. You would think someone selling them would notice.
I am looking hard for a lap and that's why I saw it.
I have read lot's of post's on the forum and thought I would get the Tremblay but appears they are sold out of most models.
Considered a Morrell but changed mind.
I am going to add a Duesenberg Bender so the right type of layout is important.
Like a steer I'll keep tryin'. |
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2013 6:22 pm
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If you're gonna put a bender on it I'd get something good... with tight tuners and a good nut/bridge. Nothing like binding to mess up your day.
The Airline looks OK... I'd stay way clear of Mullen, that's bottom-of-the-barrel AFAIC. I'll bet the Airline comes with a different pickup than the picture, though... and if it doesn't say Duncan anywhere, it's not going to be one... they're $100 by themselves.
Get the Airline and put a Duncan P-Rails on it... put some switch-pots too.
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Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Paul DiMaggio
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Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 7:40 am
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| Hot Rails seems to be a generic name, my Morrell has a Kent Armstrong Hot Rails pickup. It doesn't look anything like the one on that Airline. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 9:22 am
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"So did the original Airline lap steel have the strap-over Supro/Valco pickup?"
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 9:27 am
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"An adjustable Strat-style bridge and hot humbucking pickup"
An adjustable bridge is unnecessary on a steel, and with all the screws, and loose tolerances so it will be "adjustable." it's probably a tone and sustain bandit. But they're a cheap part. Cheaper than having a correct copy of the original made. Jason Lollar makes copies of the original pups. That's what I'd use! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 9:47 am
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http://www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LGP&Product_Code=Supro&Category_Code=steel-guitar-pickups
Costs almost as much as the guitar though! |
Definitely not cheap, but very well made and sounds as good if not better than the best of the originals. I can only imagine what it cost Jason to tool up to be able to reproduce it. Not only did he have to gear up for the metal work, but also had to have the magnets special made. Short of a few screws, there is nothing off the shelf in it.
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