Posted: 23 Aug 2007 9:48 am
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What is the oldest PEDAL steel you have ever owned? Lap?
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Posted: 23 Aug 2007 11:14 am
1955 National T8 Console
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 4:28 pm
Bobbe sold me Buddy's first steel. It's a 1923 Seymore Custom Lap 6. 
That is a hand wound pickup at the end of the fretboard.
Rick
That is a hand wound pickup at the end of the fretboard.
Rick
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 4:33 pm
My first wife could fly on that.R Crow wrote:Bobbe sold me Buddy's first steel. It's a 1923 Seymore Custom Lap 6.
That is a hand wound pickup at the end of the fretboard.
Rick
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 4:43 pm
I'm hurt! You mean that's not Buddy's first guitar?
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 4:55 pm
Maybe that's the guitar that Buddy recorded Witches brew with.
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 4:57 pm
My price just doubled! 
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 5:14 pm
Now that you know the historical significance of that guitar, you could get a fortune for it on e-bay 
Posted: 23 Aug 2007 8:06 pm
I think a couple "Rickenbacher" lap steels predate my '49 Gibson Electraharp.
I've had six-strings and mandos from much earlier....late 1800's.
I've had six-strings and mandos from much earlier....late 1800's.
First pedal steel in 1954
Posted: 24 Aug 2007 5:51 pm
My first pedal steel I bought in July 1954 from Shot Jackson, a D-8 Fender Stringmaster that he installed his "push-rod in the tuner heads" pedals on the stand up steel !! I played it for about ten years and then cut it up for firewood !!! I thought it was useless by that time !! Stupid old fool !! Eddie "C" ( stupid old geezer )
Oldest PSG
Posted: 24 Aug 2007 8:05 pm
My oldest ‘real’ PSG was my first new Sho-Bud in the fall of 1957. Before that, I did install one Jimmy Day pedal on my D–8 Fender Stringmaster in about ’53.
mid 40's
Posted: 26 Aug 2007 9:01 am
My first PSG was the only (prototype) PSG that Vega corp of Boston made to take on the "harps" in the market place. They decided that the market was too small, and the cost was too high.
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 10:17 am
1961 Sho Bud D8 I got from one of Shot's old Buddies in Chatanooga
1935 National Electric Hawaiian I no longer have
1935 National Electric Hawaiian I no longer have
Re: What is the oldest PEDAL steel you have ever owned? Lap?
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 10:32 am
BobbeSeymour wrote:Just like to know, what is the oldest steel guitar you own now and what is the oldest pedal guitar you have ever had.
Lets cover lap steels also, I think some of you guys have some great old guitars, tell us about them!
Bobbe
1954 Alkire Eharp with 10 strings and a E chromatic tuning.[/quote]
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 11:02 am
My oldest lapsteel is a pre "august 10th, 1937" Rick bakelite 7 string.
My first pedal steel circa late '50's. Fender 400 with 6 pedals purchased new from a dealer in Jacksonville, Fl.
My newest PSG Purchased new in August of this year. Excel Superb S-12 universal with 8 and 9.
carl
My first pedal steel circa late '50's. Fender 400 with 6 pedals purchased new from a dealer in Jacksonville, Fl.
My newest PSG Purchased new in August of this year. Excel Superb S-12 universal with 8 and 9.
carl
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 11:08 am
Wait a minute ! A 1923 Seymore ? Assuming Bobbe was only a teenager at the time he built it (1923), that would make Bobbe about a hundred years old now.R Crow wrote:Bobbe sold me Buddy's first steel. It's a 1923 Seymore Custom Lap 6.
He looks very young for his age. Posted: 1 Jan 2009 11:27 am
The oldest "steel" was probably the Style O sq.nk. Sold it. I still have a '35 M32 Dobro, and a 37 woodie Dobro. Both rnd. nks. The '37 is the best sounding reso I've ever heard. My oldest electric is a 1939(I think) Gibson Grande Console D-7. Oldest pedal guitar is my '59 Permanent. Then the '63 Fingertip. Then the '67 racker. Then the '74 S-10 Bud, which is a real looker! Gonna have to thin the herd one of these days!
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 2:49 pm
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Posted: 1 Jan 2009 3:19 pm
EPIPHONE ELECTA 1939
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 3:40 pm
I have a S-12 MSA that was built for Reese in 1966..Reese said this was the guitar that he thought he cut his 1st albums with.
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 4:00 pm
I have a 1756 violin. I guess I could play it with a tone bar and pretend it were a lap steel....
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 4:25 pm
Alan,
We were playin' at the Shell Bar one night, and some drunken girl kept screamin, "Freebird." I went in my pack seat, and pulled out all my slides. None of us knew the tune, but were vaguely familiar with the melody. So we played it! Three slide guitars, slide bass, and slide fiddle! All hackin' away at the melody. I almost peed my pants, I was laughin' so hard! We didn't get invited back to that bar!
We were playin' at the Shell Bar one night, and some drunken girl kept screamin, "Freebird." I went in my pack seat, and pulled out all my slides. None of us knew the tune, but were vaguely familiar with the melody. So we played it! Three slide guitars, slide bass, and slide fiddle! All hackin' away at the melody. I almost peed my pants, I was laughin' so hard! We didn't get invited back to that bar!
Posted: 1 Jan 2009 4:50 pm
1937 Epiphone 8. Aluminum plate over mahogany.
It also had the name "Dallas Sorrells" scratched inside the pickup cavity. Never found out who that was.
I changed over to a 53 Deluxe 8 with a trap. More full tone and increasing in value a little faster.
The Epi was a very fun guitar to play, though. It had the old Bob Dunn plunk to it.
It also had the name "Dallas Sorrells" scratched inside the pickup cavity. Never found out who that was.
I changed over to a 53 Deluxe 8 with a trap. More full tone and increasing in value a little faster.
The Epi was a very fun guitar to play, though. It had the old Bob Dunn plunk to it.
Posted: 2 Jan 2009 5:17 am
At one point I've owned a Fender 400, a Fender 1000, and a MultiKord S-6 w/ 4 pedals but that's all in the past right now I have an old 1952 National Grand Console D-8 as well as an old Regal S-6 which was made in Chicago. I'm not sure of the year of the Regal. Here's a shot of the National....JH in Va.
