The Steel Guitar Forum

Beer dispenser and Chick magnet.

Wayne Baker

Good adjustable nut roller heights, interchangable pickups and such is real nice
And adjustable knee placement in 3D.

But hands down I would want Carl Dixon's servo controled copedent changing setup.

That on a SD-14 would be the most power for the size and weight I could imagine.
3 completely integrated copedents with just the twist of your volume pedal foot...<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 27 January 2004 at 03:46 AM.]</p></FONT>

Ha...I think some of you fellows need to just "Come on Back".....You are Venturing out just a little TOO FAR for ANYBODY to help you. LOL This place gets pretty Funny at times..I Love it. But, I do like the "String Spool" Idea, Yea, That would be Neat, just "Roll and Tuck"..... Yea, I could see me "Spot-Welding" on MY Steel....Ha....I think I'll go "Fry some Ice" Now....

I'm with Ron on the Emmons Counterforce.
Jerry

Frank,
Do you mean like a capo for a steel?

I'd like to have a button or a switch that I could set once my guitar is in perfect tune. Then to retune it, I could just hit the button or flip the switch and BAM! I'm in perfect tune again.

jd

Oh, and a holster for my 44 mag.

In our defense I do believe that we make a very solid modern halfstop mechanism for our guitars. Mullen owners with a half-stop installed could attest to that.

Thanks David<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Del Mullen on 27 January 2004 at 04:07 PM.]</p></FONT>

Del, I think you mean "attest".
You'll be alright.

Joe,
What I'm talking about is an electronic device that would transpose for you to play in any key at whatever fret you wanted to. It seems that would be a doable thing. How about it Keith Hilton or one of you other tech guys out there?

Frank, I believe that would be a feature for an amp. Have a built in BIAB in the amp with a realtime feature and you got it! Choose your actual playing key and choose the key you want it to come out of the amp in and presto.
Jerry

Jerry,
Either way would be very cool. Now lets get somebody to build it.

Auto-pilot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brandy.

How 'bout it Bobbe..

EJL

A pre tuned fret board with electronics instead of all the pullers and drop rods.

Like a Guitar/Organ ... use the bar as a point of contact.

When you push the pedal; it would send an electronic signal instead of pulling or pushing a string.

Since there is 100 cents between keys, have that many circuits between frets for the vibrato.

With modern tech in electronics, it could be done.

Nothing to adjust .... and think of how light it would be.

Wishful thinking ... Pee Wee Rogers<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Pee Wee Rogers on 29 January 2004 at 04:18 AM.]</p></FONT>

How about installing a tuner into the Pad, I've thought about it once or twice.

I don't need it now, and haven't for a number of years.....but back then, it would have been nice to have had an automatic power cut-off to my amplifier when I had reached my

<SMALL>When you push the pedal; it would send an electronic signal instead of pulling or pushing a string.</SMALL>

Pee Wee,wouldn't that cause an instant change of the string(s) being raised or lowred,seems you would loose half pedals and be unable to add tension to a sound?
Ray



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Steeling is still legal in Arizona

Along with both necks being on with no tone loss, I would like to send individual signals from either neck, like two output jacks. They could go to two different amps with two different eq's. One for E9th and one for C6th. And a volume control would be nice.

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1985 Emmons push-pull,S-10 Marlin,Evans SE200,Hilton pedal

A single-coil pickup that doesn't hum.

Mr Del Mullen my half stop on my second string is to mussey it seams could be a little better,I like to really feel that stop is there any thing you could suggest to make it feel a little harder at the half stop.

Pee Wee,
One question, How would you control the "Speed" of the Electonic note? If you have to half pedal a number like "I love you so much, It hurts", which I play SLOW, how would you control the "Pull" of the string or strings in "Time"? Same thing with a "Warp speed" number. If your "Pedal Punching" like the 3 & 5, or, 5 & 6 in a fast scale, same thing...Don't get me wrong, My Friend, I think the idea is a very good one...I have read many past posts about "Servos" and that sort of thing. I do know that bOb, or "Fearless" Mod. Man mentioned it once. I belive Carl Dixon in Gorgia had somewhat of an idea about Electronic "Pulses" that would change the string pitch. Lord, with all the "Smarts" we have on this forum, We all could invent ANYTHING and Patent and start a BIG Co. Just curious about how you could "Control" the speed of the pull verses the tempo of the tune.
Good Post, PW....think about it, and ifin it WORKS, I'll "Invest" my "Lottery" winnings.... :rooleyes:

My Franklin has the best, solid 1/2 stop I have ever felt. The Franklin also has the neck change switch on the endplate; very easy to change on the fly. The Franklin also has an output for each neck. I like my Franklin

bob

Power assist floor pedals BW

To reiterate, the servos in Carl Dixons prototype I saw at ISGC could change which bellcranks and axels an individual or multiple pedals/levers would actuate,
while it is in use,
so when you let up a P or L it would do a different pull set the next time you use it.

The servos slide a mechanism with a release which then actuates another set of pulls.

So your' playing A+B in an E9 lick, twist the volume pedal like an old tone volume, and your next pedal and lever combination does a C6 lick.
So you could up pedal A and B then down pedal B and it is pedal 6 Add A and you are in C6 diminished.

Twist the 3rd placement and your in a totally different copedent

You could be playing an E9 lick and add a C6 pair of levers on top of it! And visa versa.

I saw this system working, if not actually installed on a guitar, and it worked smoothly and didn't seem to have any problems.

Essentially you can have the best of all worlds.
1 neck with the widest possible assortment of chords in the smallest space.
And also the posibility of less pulls on any given lever or pedal because they can be dispursed.

I am sure there are decades of copedent changes and logic ideas yet to come for this set up, but I see this as the biggest possible advance for the power of the PSG.

Bravo Carl!

How about a steel with a gig. All it would
need is a pilot.

Three push buttons marked....T.W.....P.F....
B.E. and then sit there and watch me fly.......weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....