The Steel Guitar Forum

My like new 89 Franklin and my brand new (1 year old Zumsteel)

Paul Carestia

My latest-

some of these have been sold or traded since (ive gotten addicted to franklins lately had a S-10 then traded with jamie for his D-10 now working on getting another S-10 and a D-10 both black !!

these ones are

1982 Emmons P/P SD-10 3/4 (traded up to a 65 Bolt On P/P D-10 8/5)

1969 Fulawka SD-10 4/5 (rebuild in 2005 with new changer)

1996 Williams D-10 8/5 keyless (sold it )

1982 Sho Bud Super Pro D-10 8/6 with 705s currently being rebuilt by Mike Cass

2011 Zum SD-10 4/5

1984 Zum D-10 8/7

This is the Dragon steel that was made for me by Mark Giles at Star Guitars in Texas.

I sent them the Claro Walnut for the body. Most Steels are built with maple.

Mark built and sent me the body and neck. I inlaid the Fret Board on the neck with White MOP, Paua Abalone and Red Abalone Heart.

I took the body to our workshop in Viet Nam. There, our best inlay artist (Diep) did all the special inlays including the Dragon on the front apron and my Name Logo.

After all the inlay work was finished I sent the guitar back to Star Guitars where Mark and his partner finished the instrument.

It is a real joy to play and to own.

It has 10 Strings, 4 pedals and 5 knee levers tuned to more or less the standard "Nashville E9th"...

Plays & Sounds great.

very cool!

Custom Show-Pro. 200 year old Tiger maple aprons from the Hermitage..A Jeff Surratt masterpiece. Plays great, sounds great, looks great.

Here are a few of my toys.

My baby with Butterscotch in the background...on the job,getting ready to clock in for the night!

My first ZumSteel. Player not included.....

my fun room



The Wilcox is my money maker outside the home

This is my brand new 3 months old Williams. 8&9. Bill does great work


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In another thread the question was asked, "how many pedal steel guitars have been produced?"
From this thread it's obvious that most steel guitarists own multiple instruments, so the question may not be "how many steel guitars have been produced?", but rather, "how many steel guitarists are there?"

Great playing guitar...the tone.....amazing!!!

My MSA Millenium, completely rebuilt by Kyle and boys to M3 standard.Absolutely brilliant.Thanks guys

My baby.....Thanks Fred!

Posted this elsewhere before, but this thread came to top so I will post here too

Some of my fun toys

Nice on the eye and great on the ears, can't beat a good Bud.





Jimmy/

Very nice guitar Jimmy. That may have belonged to John Edmed at one time - I remember him having one just like it.

Ken

Daniel Policarpo wrote:My first ZumSteel. Player not included.....

Daniel looks like you stepped out of a novel by H.G. Wells

Here's my three. The black Emmons is a 69?70 Fat Back, Rosewood is a 75 and the ZB I don't know. Don't see many ZB's made without the horns so I assume this is a later model maybe made in Waco I heard.