What was your first pedal steel?

Ronnie Green · Post by **Ronnie Green** » 2 Dec 2005 7:29 pm

Graduation present. A brand new MSA Classic D10 8X4.

Tyler Hall · Post by **Tyler Hall** » 6 Dec 2005 8:50 am

My first TWO steels were home-made. Mr Lucky Carter here in Birmingham has been building them for years and I would put mine against anything. He built me 2 SD-10, 3&4's. One is black (because everyone knows black sounds better), and a beautiful teal green. These guitars are great, and anybody with one of Lucky's will tell you the same.

I play my Fessy most of the time now, and just polish on the other two.

D-10 Fessenden, Nashville 112, Session 500, Goodrich LDR

Whip Lashaway · Post by **Whip Lashaway** » 6 Dec 2005 1:30 pm

In 1983 my wife found a beginners model ShoBud with 3 pedals and 1 knee. It was one of those cable jobs. I played that thing about 4 hours a day for a year. Decided I could do this and traded it in on a teal colored Pro-I at Packs Music in San Antonio. Don had given me a few pointers during that year and I had bought my volume pedal, amp, tone bar, picks and some instructional material there. He knew I only paid $85.00 for that guitar and still gave me $200.00 trade-in after dropping the price of the Pro-I from $1600.00 to $1000.00. What a guy!!! I left town and moved back to Ohio. Stopped in to see Don about 15 years later. He didn't remember my name but remembered that I had made a deal on a teal colored ShoBud!!! Thanks Don, if you're out there somewhere.

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Whip Lashaway
Sierra E9/B6 12 string
Sierra E9/B6 14 string
78' Emmons D10 P/P

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 6 Dec 2005 2:14 pm

disregard - double post[This message was edited by Paddy Long on 06 December 2005 at 02:15 PM.]

Michael McCorry · Post by **Michael McCorry** » 7 Dec 2005 5:13 am

First time was a beautyful, shapely, and well put-together Sierra Flourescent Orange single w/3&2 circa 1976. Bought from a magician, not a musician in 1993 for the large sum of $350.00 w/case, the guitar was bought new and never played, he got it as a christmas gift and apparently followed a career in tricks instead of licks....Orange Guitar, black tolex case with blue fur...she was a looker thats for sure!
To this day, I still miss her. Course, thats how relationships go, guess she found someone who could give her what I could not, so we parted ways when I abandoned her for curvy blonde 6 string. "Don;t it always seem to go, You don;t know what you got till its gone"..{Big Yellow Taxi}..truer words were never spoken..and life goes on

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