Show us your Blue Darlin'

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 3 Apr 2015 9:01 am

I like blue, and have always wanted a blue steel like Jimmy Day's. I don't have one, but someday.....

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 3 Apr 2015 9:31 am

I feel the same way about blue; I'd take one with the original copedent, or heck, the original guitar.
Does anyone have a photo of Day's steel?

Todd Goad · Post by **Todd Goad** » 3 Apr 2015 10:18 am

Mike, Blue is indeed my favorite color, also. So here is a picture of my "Blue Darlin'"
The Mullen guys sure done a fabulous job. I couldn't be happier

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 3 Apr 2015 10:28 am

This used to be mine. Bummer, I sold it to a "friend" that really has no desire to really play. He should give it back to me.

Ronald Sikes · Post by **Ronald Sikes** » 3 Apr 2015 10:31 am

ROBERT MYERS · Post by **ROBERT MYERS** » 3 Apr 2015 10:59 am

My grandson named her Sweet Baby Blue

Pete Nicholls · Post by **Pete Nicholls** » 3 Apr 2015 5:46 pm

Thiel Hatt · Post by **Thiel Hatt** » 3 Apr 2015 6:17 pm

What about darker blue ?

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 3 Apr 2015 6:17 pm

Boy all the â€œPretty Blueâ€ ones here all ready, kinda makes me blush to put mine up...buuuuuttttt...here she is...She was a lot bluer back in the day, late 70â€™s... not sure what happened to most of the blue...probably hiding under the neck...it didnâ€™t even spend much time in the sun and a lot of time in the box...

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 3 Apr 2015 8:10 pm

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 Apr 2015 8:33 pm

Jean-Marie Raffault · Post by **Jean-Marie Raffault** » 3 Apr 2015 9:40 pm

Richard Alderson · Post by **Richard Alderson** » 3 Apr 2015 9:48 pm

Does this count? or not blue enough?

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 3 Apr 2015 10:18 pm

Blue is REALLY nice on a steel. This thread should slam that home! Here are couple of blue sweeties I've owned.

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 3 Apr 2015 10:25 pm

Jean-Marie Raffault wrote:

That's what I'm talking about. Lovely.

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 3 Apr 2015 10:41 pm

Liked blue so much I got a matching Steeler's Choice seat.

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 3 Apr 2015 11:10 pm

Great thread Mike. I too have entertained the thought of someday buying a blue steel.

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 4 Apr 2015 2:26 am

Here's my "Bluey", from the front:-

and from the back:-

Actually, calling this one "Bluey" is a bit of a misnomer. In Australia the name "Bluey" traditionally refers to someone with red hair.

Alan Berdoulay · Post by **Alan Berdoulay** » 4 Apr 2015 4:33 am

Charlie McDonald wrote: Does anyone have a photo of Day's steel?

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 4 Apr 2015 5:38 am

Quite a few blue beauties here. Dale and Mark van Allen, those faded-blue steels are also quite attractive and unusual.

Here is a Bill Rudolph Williams 600 my wife gave me upon my retirement.

This one belonged to David Kellogg and also Bud Eastman former editor of Guitar Player magazine fame. I may be wrong but when Bud was in charge the magazine had a monthly pedal steel lesson for about three years. Jeff Newman primarily wrote that article but there was at least one other writer.

I think Tom Wheeler then became editor and killed that column. I wrote to him asking when it would be reinstated and he said there were not enough pedal steel players to warrant a monthly column. My reply was that perhaps if Guitar Player took the lead, more players would have been exposed to steel adding to the numbers. Tom did not reply. Too busy "shredding" I guess.

The Zum is kinda purplish-blue.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 4 Apr 2015 7:41 am

A Spirit Rains with a custom Giles cabinet.

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 4 Apr 2015 7:49 am

Hey, Steve, Buddy Emmons and Rusty Young also had long series of columns in Guitar Player, and I believe Tom Bradshaw might have written the first steel guitar column series in G.P. I also wrote to them about the demise of steelness.

Gorgeous guitars, every one.

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 4 Apr 2015 9:19 am

Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 4 Apr 2015 10:39 am

I have three blue guitars, I think it's my favorite color. I have a Rittenberry, a Derby, and a Carter. All are mica finish. Seems like I only have a picture of the Rittenberry.

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 4 Apr 2015 12:02 pm

smoke this...he he he

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