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ERN

ERN, where are those pictures you promised us?

Hey Ern, thanks for the great pictures...please let us know what you think of your Willy after you get a chance to take it around the track.

HEY ERN
THATS ONE FINE LOOKING WILLIE YA GOT THERE! LOVE THAT COLOR, THE M.O.P. INLAY ON THE FRONT APRON REALLY SETS THE COLOR OFF. I SEEN IT IN PERSON AND THAT BLUEISH/TEAL COLOR OF THE CABENIT LOOKS BEAUITFUL WITH THE M.O.P. INLAY. JUST AWSOME ERN!!

How much more is the new changer? I can't seem to find it anywhere on the Williams web-site.

I'm almost certain that when I buy myself that Extended E9 12-string, it's going to be a Williams, and I do like the straight-through look of that changer!

Can anyone send a link to a page that differentiates between the price of a 'standard' Williams and the '600' (SD 12 five pedals and six knees - I think!!!)

Roger, Last April the 600 changer cost $100 more but it would be best for you to call Bill and find out the current price. Phone is (763) 753-8645.

Roger, Bill has just this week emailed me with a quote for a U12 and the 600 changer is an extra $120.

Thanks, Brad - thanks, Les!

The 600 canger is $10.00 per string, so $100.00 for a 10 string changer and $120.00 for a 12 string changer. This is from Bill just this past week.

Roger, That $100 or $120 extra is well worth it because the Williams changer is very unique and Bill has the patent..anyone trying to copy it will wind up with legal problems.

Thanks for all the kind words and great photos !!!
Jerry Dube asked me to post a photo of his retirement present...........his sunburst Willy !!!
With him is Lefty Schrage, administrator of the NE Iowa Jam. These two gentlemen are great people and great pickers, too!!

My Best,

Bill Rudolph
Williams Guitar Co., LLC.

Bill,
I think you outdid yourself on that one!!!

It even looks nicer in person. I stopped at Jerry's and he let me "take it for a ride". I hope to see a lot of you folks May 25th in Champlin.

Geo

Brad you asked for it here it is.
After playing the williams Guitar I sold every guitar I owned, the shobud bought new with the new up grade had to go, the Carter 8x8 is gone, the Fender 1000 is gone. The string spacing was different and I was going to play the willy full time so no need to keep the rest.
When someone buys a new guitar the thought is, this is the best guitar I ever played, this guitar is great and it has sold other new guitars because people played it and buying a new one. John said I cannot get from my guitar what I hear and feel in this guitar so he ordered one, what more can I say he is a super player and plays a lot of gigs around here. Bill needs to gear up cause this guitar will sell itself.
I played a Derby in St Louis and it was great, also a Jackson and it is great, but I woill not trade this one even for any of them, nough said.


ernie

Roger did you buy Doc's Willy??????

ern

I haven't bought anyone's anything yet.

I need to play a Williams to hear how they sound - right now it's a toss-up between the Williams and a Fessenden. It's a tough call that won't be resolved until I hear for myself what a Williams sounds like. I already have a ten-string Fessie, so I know they're good.

Hey Ern, Glad you like your new Williams. I think the Williams is the best designed Steel on the market...the changer is designed to bend strings less and thereby reducing breakage...I have my Willy for 10 months and have not broken any strings. The string spacing is only about 1/32 closer than on my Mullen so that was a very easy adjustment. IMHO the Williams is a real winner and anyone buying a new steel should give it a try. I'm playing mine through my Nashville 1000 and the tone is great...I also have a Nashville 112 but I prefer the sound of the 1000, just can't beat that 15" BW IMHO. For my Willy I set the pre gain at 3, the low at 13, the mid at-3, the shift at 900, the high at +5, the presence at 7 the Reverb at 4 and the Master gain at 4.

you guys are killing me with the new Willy's!

Hope i can hold out till late June for my D10 9/9
with a quilted apron and tiger top in this color

Larry, I have a new Williams I will pick up this summer which is this PRS brilliant blue color and all tiger maple. Really tough to choose from the rainbow of colors Bill and Tim use on these Williams steels. I've been fortunate to have visited the shop several times and seen these guitars in person but it's a dangerous place to go if you wish to conserve your dough. It's GAS heaven. steve t

I know, The WILY'S are one of the very best new geetars you can get!

Congrats

Hey Larry Scott, If you do something over and over the same way you will get the same result but if you make a change in the way you do a certain thing the result will be different. Bill has made a radical design change to the Williams changer and the result is less bending of the string at the changer resulting in less string breakage...it remains a mystery to me why most of the other brands keep doing things the same way. The Williams 600 series is way out front in design IMHO. Like that old car commercial use to say: ASK THE MAN THAT OWNS ONE.

Brad, I may be wrong, but I think this improvement, to the best of my knowledge, has not been copied because Bill Rudolph (Williams guitars) has a patent on it for his 400 and 600 changers.

Sweet guitar there, Ernest. steve t

>>Brad, I may be wrong, but I think this improvement, to the best of my knowledge, has not been copied because Bill Rudolph (Williams guitars) has a patent on it for his 400 and 600 changers.<<

Steve Takacs, your above statement is 100% correct but I believe that it may be possible to seek permission, for a price of course, to use this great changer in other brands...but that would have to be through legal channels between the patent holder and the requesting builder..then again, I could be "off base".

These beautiful Willys belong back at the top

Yes they do