He may also have the new "Authentic" Charlie Christian Pickup there ...
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Isn't the Internet a great thing? I find out from a guy on a hilltop 2,500 miles away that there is a vintage guitar show happening about five miles from my house!
WHAT??? Jason has a Hawaiian Steel??? I gotta see this.....anyone got info on it> Jason??? hello you there?? Where's the website with all the pics...I bet I can find it....I'm a goin' surfin'.
Jason is the KING that designed and made the great pickup system for my SS HAWAIIAN pictured below. HERE IT IS!!!
Ricky<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ricky Davis on 24 April 2003 at 05:15 PM.]</p></FONT>
I know one thing, that pickup is a "HOSS!" Jason put one on my Excel Frypan. Made it sound like it was on steroids! Rick and Jason have done the non-pedal community a great service!
Thanks everybody!
First off Rickys SS is probably the finest classic design I have ever seen.
This Electrotone is a guitar I made recently in my limited spare time to demonstrate the new horseshoe repros that Rick Aiello and I are making.
I dont have any immediate plans to make these, pickups keep me so buisy that I am about a year out on guitars and until I get some help in here I cant start making lap steels. Could be in 6 months to a year though, it will be the first thing the new guys will be doing.
So Rick lives HIGH ON A HILLTOP, and he told me he lives down low in a valley! OH well...
Sure wish Jason could've had one of these babies at the Spokane Steel Jam this same Saturday and SUnday. A building full of steel guitar players and no LOLLAR STEEL Gutiar. I'd seriously like to hear one and see if it might fit on my Shot Jackson FRY PAN>
Ray is right ... I am a flatlander now <font size=1>We moved off the mountain in January ... smack dab in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley now </font>
Seems like a big weekend for the Steel guitar (conventions, shows, jams)...
Th timing on the Spokane convention couldnt be any worse for me. I have a gig on Sat which I only play a couple times a year anymore and the vintage show thats twice a year too!
Congratulations Jason and Rick, this is the most attractive new lap steel I've seen. Horse-shoe pick-up, guitar-shaped body, string-thru loading, (22 1/2" scale?), simple compact classic design. Please put these into production and include a 7 string model. Keep us posted.
Haere mai,
Steve H.
S8A6
Thats really nice, you just cant beat the old classic designs.
I spent alot of time on my archtop guitar design (the concert)to get that 1930's look without going overboard on it and I can tell you its alot harder to do than it seems, at least for me! making something that looks like it all goes together and doesnt have any extra junk on it.
The original design it was copied off used Bakelite for the nut and bridge so I tried Corian and it seems to work really well.
That guitar in the photo was made just as a Demo for the new pickup and I literally threw it together. I had a piece of white oak laying around and had some leftover red in my spray gun. The white oak worked really good but is a problem to finish because of the open pores.
We have a probably few tons of figured maple that we pulled out of the puget sound that we milled and dried that seems to have the right density and will probably use that when the time comes. Its going to be months from now before it happens.
