New Lacquer Rittenberry Prestige D-10

Chuck Hamilton · Post by **Chuck Hamilton** » 21 Jul 2018 1:31 pm

I went to the workshop of the Master, Gary Rittenberry, in Cookesville TN last week to pick up my brand new Horizontal Hillbilly Harp. The pictures don't do this guitar justice. It is astounding to look at and even better to play. Gary's workmanship is unparalleled and he is a pleasure to work with.

Thanks again to Gary (he is pictured here sitting at my guitar), and a tip of the hat to Larry Toliver and Mark Tulbert, who are my Rittenberry Buddies and have been instrumental (pardon the pun!) in getting me turned on to Rittenberry guitars and in my progress as a PSG Player (to the extent there has been any

Aaron Johnson · Post by **Aaron Johnson** » 21 Jul 2018 2:11 pm

That is a beautiful guitar! Congratulations!

gary pierce · Post by **gary pierce** » 21 Jul 2018 2:39 pm

That is an awesome beautiful guitar he built.

Ronald Sikes · Post by **Ronald Sikes** » 21 Jul 2018 3:21 pm

Absolutely stunning!â€™

Ken Pippus · Post by **Ken Pippus** » 21 Jul 2018 3:57 pm

Stunning!

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 21 Jul 2018 4:24 pm

Pretty awesome!

Russ Tkac · Post by **Russ Tkac** » 21 Jul 2018 6:23 pm

Scott Truax · Post by **Scott Truax** » 22 Jul 2018 4:27 am

Pretty awesome is right !! And, so is the guitar !!

Gary is the Master, as anyone who has ones knows.

Glad you're feeling well and building your tone-monster
works of art, Gary.

Best,

Scott

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 22 Jul 2018 4:33 am

Whoa Chuck,
That is a stunner... But, should you ever decide to part with her, well youâ€™ve got my number

Johnie King · Post by **Johnie King** » 22 Jul 2018 4:38 am

Wow I consider you a very smart an fortunate man An your choice of steels of all the ones you could have choose you picked the right person too build you a very special pedal steel. Congratulations

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 22 Jul 2018 7:40 pm

Stunning!

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 23 Jul 2018 2:32 am

Geez!!

Colin Swinney · Post by **Colin Swinney** » 23 Jul 2018 8:00 am

Thatâ€™s an absolutely beautiful blue on that guitar, you must be thrilled.

I also want to mention that I will never call it a pedal steel guitar again, as Horizontal Hillbilly Harp is clearly the superior name!

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 23 Jul 2018 7:25 pm

Colin, I would call it, Hillbilly Horizontal Harp but what ever it is Beautiful. J.R.

Dan Robinson · Post by **Dan Robinson** » 23 Jul 2018 7:31 pm

Magnificent!

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 24 Jul 2018 1:26 am

That is a beautiful steel guitar Chuck! I love the color.

Frank Raines · Post by **Frank Raines** » 24 Jul 2018 3:00 pm

I was at Gary approx. month ago. I went down to talk to him about the steel he`s gonna build for me, he was playing this Blue steel when I walk in I could not believe the TONE this steel had, he was only using a volume pedal and a fender steel king amp I told Gary you have a MONSTER of a steel on your hands your making. He also told me when he bought the age wood for this blue one, he bought my wood for my steel at the same time can`t wait for it to get done, I went with the old see threw dark Cherry Red sho bud color, Gary is just a flat out GREAT GUY And he`s building one of the Best steels out there. It was a real treat to meet the Man, and it was a real treat to hear him tell me some stories of the good old days your always in my Prayers Gary God Bless frank

Wayne Dahl · Post by **Wayne Dahl** » 2 Aug 2018 7:45 pm

That is a beautiful guitar Chuck. Great Work Gary. Chuck, could you post pictures of the undercarriage please? Thanks.

Cecil Garvin · Post by **Cecil Garvin** » 2 Aug 2018 9:33 pm

Oh yeah!! Now that's a Pedal Steel Guitar!!

Bill Myers · Post by **Bill Myers** » 31 Aug 2018 3:53 am

Wow...what a guitar!

Tommy Minniear · Post by **Tommy Minniear** » 31 Aug 2018 7:30 am

Pedal steel guitar craftsmanship at its finest!

Steve Hotra · Post by **Steve Hotra** » 3 Sep 2018 4:46 pm

That's a beautiful guitar!
And a great picture of Mr Rittenberry.
I was able to purchase a Kelly Green one, serial number #006 that he built.
I wish he would have signed mine.

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 12 Jul 2019 3:18 am

More pix of ALL of the undercarriage, and changer end, please!

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 13 Jul 2019 6:02 am

How Blue can ya'Get?

Dale Foreman · Post by **Dale Foreman** » 14 Jul 2019 12:25 pm

Thatâ€™s one sweet looking baby right there! Gary is one heck of a builder and nice guy! I have 2 Prestige guitars that I absolutely love. I have both of them identically setup and I believe if I were blind folded, I couldnâ€™t tell them apart by playing them.ðŸ¤

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