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Topic: New Sierra steel guitar |
Johnie King
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Posted 28 Apr 2018 6:08 am |
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Dose any body know how the changer works on the new Sierra Steel there is no visible axel I can see. Could anyone send me a clost up picture of the new Sierra changer an explain how it works I’m wondering what kind of magic they seem to have created . It looks Ingenious.
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Johnie King
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 6:56 am
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Thanks Fred I went on site an read about changer but it was a very technical.For this old timer.At St. Louis steel guitar convention years ago Sierra had a board with a changer system set up to show how it actually worked. It possibly could be a good selling point.
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 7:23 am
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 old style Sierra changer drawing
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 7:28 am
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| As u can see in above picture of the older Sierra it was not your normal changer something I'm sure was a step ahead of what was being offered at the time. They are very well made An work so well set An forget it. |
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 7:50 am
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Happy Sunday all,
Johnie, I responded to this same question in another thread that you posed this question in.
As per that response, there is a 3/32" pin that pivots in the changer housing, also another 1/8" pivot in the finger assembly to accomplish the dual or virtual pivot action.
As mentioned in my earlier response to you and in other threads. While done very differently, the basic function of my changer is the same as that found on old Rickenbackers, the rare Fender PS210, Excels and Anapegs.....search around on the inter web and you'll find all the info needed to explain the function.
You can also see a good side view at around 40 seconds and another at about 2:30. The changer here is an early and different version that the final design, but the function is the same. The video shows its raise action.
https://youtu.be/abq7DsbebJI |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 8:10 am
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| Thanks Ross I failed too see your post or may have an for got I'm getting that old timers affliction. I'm a steel guitar groupie when it comes too the way a steel is made. |
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 8:27 am
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No worry Johnie, I'm total steel/gizmo nerd too....I spent a whole lotta hours searching the interweb for all the info on Steel guitar design I could when I started this project. Loads of it to be seen in Google Patents....if you think the description I wrote for the Sierra website is hard to grok....wait til you try reading patents.
A friend an I got a patent for a bicycle part once....I invented and designed the damn thing but could not for the life of me understand the attorney's 64 pages of drivel explaining its function. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2018 9:16 am
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| Ross has answered the mystery for me in a Video that he posted on the making chips video series thanks Ross an I think that test machine would me much harder to build than a new Sierra. |
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