I bought this from one of Stompin' Tom Connors' steel players. This is NOT one he played with Tom though, it's one he got on a trade or something later. When I picked this up the C6 neck needed a string, and the whole thing hadn't been tuned in a while. The seller told me that the C6 neck had no knee levers on it, but when I got it home I realized that actually it has one. In the picture that's the tuning rod without a nylon nut on the end.
Unfortunately I have no extra nylon tuning nuts lying around. I assume that's a C->B lever (that's why there's a * on the copedent). Usually if you only have one knee on a C6, that's the one. I think if a nylon nut was added you could just tune it up and it would work, but of course I've been unable to check. The rest of the rods tuned up fine, according to the attached copedent.
I think this guitar would benefit from a thorough servicing. It has old rusty strings on it, so I've ordered some replacements, and plan to clean the wood and polish the metal when I have the strings off. I'll probably remove the keyheads so I can really get in there.
The changers need to be taken apart and cleaned and lubed up, I think. I've been playing a ton on the E9 neck, and the tuning stability is good. I was working on some Buddy Emmons stuff last night for a few hours and didn't tune at all. I had it in my living room all night with the window open the previous night too, and didn't tune before I started playing. So the mechanics seems good to me. However the C6 neck has clearly not been played as often, and currently the pedals which change the low C string tend to throw it out of tune (p5 and p8 ). The strings on there are total junk, so it may be that new strings will go a long way to improving that, but I think the real answer is to clean and lube the changer properly. I do think it'll work just as well as the E9 if that's done though. A guitar doesn't get this much wear because it wasn't useable!
Unfortunately I live in a small apartment so it's not an ideal place to get into a job like that, so I was planning on cleaning it up and selling it as it is.
I do really like this guitar. The tone is what hit me the most. I have been impressed with the sound of it from the second I started playing it. It's got a bunch of scuffs and stuff but so do I and I still work fine haha.
