I've been out of the steel world for a couple of years (with cancer and covid) and wanted to see if someone could help me out with a question about changing a copedent on a Carter S-10 I recently purchased.
Currently the steel has RKL raising the 1st & 7th to G#. I want to change to the following: Keep the 1st string raise, add 2nd string raise to E and 6th string lower to F# (and get rid of the 7th string raise)..
I've been playing for a long time but have not really done any major work like this myself, but I am pretty mechanically inclined. Can I accomplish this? Any suggestions how to go about it?
Many thanks fellow steelers for any and all assistance!
Scotty
Last edited by Scotty Wenzel on 7 Aug 2021 4:08 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Absolutely. Unless I'm spacing out, you'll need one more bell crank & dog bone & pull rod & nylon tuner. PM me your snail mail and get me an exact measurement of the rod and I can shoot you the whole works.
Wow Jon, you are too kind! I can't thank you enough!! I'll PM you in a moment...
Scotty
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
Jon Light wrote:Absolutely. Unless I'm spacing out, you'll need one more bell crank & dog bone & pull rod & nylon tuner. PM me your snail mail and get me an exact measurement of the rod and I can shoot you the whole works.
If you plan to "split tune" string 6 to get the G note when combining you RKL and the B pedal, you'll need still another rod and dog bone. That rod can be hooked to the same bellcrank and to the top raise hole in the changer.
Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, NV400, NV112 .Playing for 53 years and still counting.
Hey Richard, thanks for the suggestion! Definitely considering this...
Scotty
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
