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Topic: Another Ebay doozie!!! |
Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 5:16 pm |
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I have not posted one of these in a while.
This is one of the best ones I have ever found on Ebay.
Ebay # 120032441601[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 15 September 2006 at 06:19 PM.] |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 5:21 pm
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What a great example of American ingenuity. When Webb Pierce's "Slowly" was released with the sound of a pedal steel, people all over the world tried their best to imitate that sound with their lap steels. I've seen many lap and table steels modified to pull various strings, but none quite so extensive as this.
It looks like the owner made it, got frustrated and threw it in the garage to rot!
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John Dahms
From:
Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 5:24 pm
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Ouch!
I especially like the bridge. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 5:58 pm
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"Somebody drop me a line and let me know what you think"
...I think I'm gonna be sick.
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Bob Tuttle
From:
Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 5:59 pm
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| It looks like a metal bodied Rickenbacher with a Fender, 8 string tuning pan welded to the headstock. Whoever built it wasn't a very good welder either. |
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Gary Boyett
From:
Colorado/ Lives in Arizona
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 2:36 am
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That has got to be the UGLIEST so called excuse for a steel I have ever seen.
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 3:11 am
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I dunno' folks. Beats the heck out of drilling holes in the tuner pan, adding two "hooked" clothes hanger wires down to two automobile accelerator pedals that used the floor for stops. Been there, done that. 
And then again...........
PLhred
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 3:20 am
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| Ya know, this is one of the things that I love about steel guitar. It draws out a certain cranky, strange, out-of-the-woodwork American tinkering instinct that you don't see with any other instrument. Sometimes we see it done suberbly (Bigsby) and somtimes not so well (this Mad Max guitar). But there was an urge to make music using the tools, resources, and albiet limited abilites this person had and in that sense, it's very cool. Have we seen hundreds of variations on violins, horns, flutes over the course of a hundred plus years? Nope. Yet the steel guitar has contnued to inspire so many variations from the wacky to sublime. The urge to create this rusted hulk is tied into the same urges that made humans create the first instruments. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 4:27 am
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It certainly has a pre-historic look!
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Roman Sonnleitner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 4:58 am
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| OK, it's old and rusted - but you've got to admire the determination and work somebody put into building something he wanted (and maybe couldn't have afforded). |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 6:24 am
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I think it could use a new set of strings also.  |
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Tommy Auldridge
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 8:19 am
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| Well, for your information, I've played this steel.! And it sounded as good if not better than any black push pull Emmons!! You can't judge a book by it's cover. |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 9:23 am
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I have a great start on my steel guitars hall of fame, known as the "Sho-Bud hall of Fame", but I think I need to buy this guitar and start a "Steel Guitar Hall of Horrors", ya' gotta' admit it would be interesting to see all this kind of "inventive-ness" in one place and see what some human minds are creating!
Should be a big hit around Halloween.
Bobster |
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Loni Specter
From:
West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 10:15 am
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This could be one of Chas Smith's first experiments!  |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 4:50 pm
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| Maybe it looked a lot better when it was first "converted". I have to wonder if it ever stayed in tune. |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 17 Sep 2006 12:55 am
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After he built the pedal steel he built himself a motorcycle.
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2006 5:00 am
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C'mon guys... Who here can say that they haven't used long shank fishing hooks themselves to optimize the timing of multiple raises like this guys did.
Ahead of it's time I tell you.
A-head... of it's time. |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2006 8:46 am
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Tommy, you must have had a heavier touch back in the day. Looks like you played the cr@% outta that thing! 
--Steve |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2006 3:00 pm
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| That's what's left over for a guitar when you but a Standel amp. |
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Willis Vanderberg
From:
Petoskey Mi
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Posted 17 Sep 2006 3:26 pm
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I always wondered what happened to those eyebolts off all four of our screen doors
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 17 Sep 2006 10:22 pm
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Thomas Ludwig
From:
Augsburg, Germany
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Posted 18 Sep 2006 4:03 am
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| just call it Rusty |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 18 Sep 2006 4:52 am
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Do you suppose that prehistoric steel was assembled with 7018 or 6010 rod...? Some of those welds could use a cover pass...
It looks like it was built in a shipyard. Heavy too, need forklift to move it.[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 18 September 2006 at 05:54 AM.] |
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Dave Zielinski
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2006 7:49 am
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| I think this thing is great! Not great enough to bid on it or buy it, but its a fine example (fine??) of good old backyard engineering. |
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