Help Identify Mystery Steel (Farah Reel Steel )

[Brian McCulloch]

Hi yall. First post and I'm glad to be here! I've Been playing a Guyatone double 8 console for a couple years and want to get into a pedal steel. This one came up for sale locally but it is quite puzzling. If anybody can tell me what make or model this is I would be very grateful. The fretboard looks like a franklin, but the rest of it just raises questions.

[Donny Hinson]

That certainly looks like a home-built steel; hard to say what it sounds like or how well it performs. Could be decent (read: "playable"), or it could be crap. I would pass on it and try to get something a little more well-known.

[Pete McAvity]

Has a Franklin fretboard, but don't look like anything Mr. F Sr. has been responsible for (from what I seen).

[Brian McCulloch]

The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought

[Doug Beaumier]

I'd pass on that one regardless of how low the price is. It looks like trouble.

[Donny Hinson]

Trouble? Yes, probably. But I do like the little leather loop on the end of the case, likely put there to pull it out of the pickup-truck bed after it had slid forward.

[Lloyd Walsh]

Looks Reel to me..

[Henry Matthews]

The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought

Believe me, people have done that and more, lol.

[Jon Zimmerman]

Hard to judge what the changer is made of and the type of mechanism, & if stable enuf to hold tuning(s)..need underbelly views to verify. Could’ve been an employee’s crude ‘prototype’?..using avail ‘spares’ to equip it? Agreed..,that troubles are not ‘Farah’-head of you, Brian. IMO.