New Williams
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New Williams
Arrived today. Pretty enough to look at.
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- Greg Milton
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- Stu Schulman
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I'm gonna try and get by after the weekend and take some photos,Beautiful guitar.
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Yes!Stu Schulman wrote:I'm gonna try and get by after the weekend and take some photos,Beautiful guitar. ;-)
This sort of two-tone w/ natural deck scheme has always been on my list of 'if I get enough chances at steel guitars in my lifetime, I want one that looks like this (and this....and this...)'
It may be that your beautiful Desert Rose helped to confirm it.
- John McClung
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Good on you, Stu Schulman, those pix Jon posted suck and do that lovely steel no favor! Congrats on the steel, Jon, quite similar to Greg Leisz's ext E9 Williams.
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If you want to have an ongoing discussion, please email me, don't use the Forum messaging which I detest! steelguitarlessons@earthlink.net
- Greg Milton
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Sure. This has been evolving since 1998. Most everything is this way for some reason. Some of it is just an experiment or idea that I'm too set with to feel like changing. The redundancies have specific reasons. Ultimately, I only gig on 4 pedals but I enjoy messing with the B6 pedals at home too much to ditch them. I use ALL the levers, all the time. So as much as I would have loved to trim down the setup for this new guitar....I just couldn't. This is identical to my current gigging guitar.
- Stu Schulman
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McClung,Pump the brakes buddy,The photos do not suck and I'm only taking photos for myself,No need to insult Jon's photography.
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- Greg Milton
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- Ben Michaels
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Ben -- that is the standard E9/B6 Uni move (more typically Pedal 6). Especially if there is a lever lock, the 4th string is 'restored' to E while the E>lower is still engaged.
In fact, this being the 4th raise on string 4, something that I rigged on my previous guitar via a special bellcrank and a barrel tuner underneath, it is NOT rodded on this new guitar. I may or may not do that modification. It is nice to have but releasing the E lever as you hit the pedal is simple enough. I do not use a lever lock.
In fact P8 may be ditched entirely since it occupies the lower hole that I may dedicate to a return compensator.
All these will be sorted in time.
In fact, this being the 4th raise on string 4, something that I rigged on my previous guitar via a special bellcrank and a barrel tuner underneath, it is NOT rodded on this new guitar. I may or may not do that modification. It is nice to have but releasing the E lever as you hit the pedal is simple enough. I do not use a lever lock.
In fact P8 may be ditched entirely since it occupies the lower hole that I may dedicate to a return compensator.
All these will be sorted in time.
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Thanks, everyone, for the good wishes.
The funny thing about this -- I am somewhat over the idea of gorgeous instruments. I've had them. They are great.
Now I'm on to wanting a very good new guitar with a utilitarian finish.
I had an idea that really excited me of a mica guitar in a rusted iron finish. A faux patina. The online samples looked fantastic as did my photoshop mockup and I planned to do this. Bill Rudolph is really proud of the Williams lacquer finishes and was not enthusiastic (but, if I could find the proper thickness of material, he would have agreed to do it).
But then the mica samples I received in the mail looked like crap. They did not come anywhere close to my vision.
So the bad news was that I ended up with this guitar here. Poor poor pitiful me.
The funny thing about this -- I am somewhat over the idea of gorgeous instruments. I've had them. They are great.
Now I'm on to wanting a very good new guitar with a utilitarian finish.
I had an idea that really excited me of a mica guitar in a rusted iron finish. A faux patina. The online samples looked fantastic as did my photoshop mockup and I planned to do this. Bill Rudolph is really proud of the Williams lacquer finishes and was not enthusiastic (but, if I could find the proper thickness of material, he would have agreed to do it).
But then the mica samples I received in the mail looked like crap. They did not come anywhere close to my vision.
So the bad news was that I ended up with this guitar here. Poor poor pitiful me.