How many Pedal Steels do you own?

Scott Hay · Post by **Scott Hay** » 16 Jun 2009 9:52 pm

a Sho-Bud Pro 1 6139. I'm getting ready to try take 3 at finding a second one I'm happy with. Just can't find one I like as much as my bud.... there are worse problems to have.

the real answer to this question.... not enough!

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 16 Jun 2009 11:48 pm

Just one, my sausage-quilted maple, abalone-inlaid Carter custom shop D10. Back in the 70s I owned a Marlen pull-release D10 in walnut formica (sold back in the 90s).

Also owned a Dobro 60D in maple (since sold) and currently own an LKS resophonic built by a local luthier from all Australian tonewoods. It has the "twang thang"!

Would love a second D10, a nice EMCI or MCI, or another Carter D10, or a really good MSA, or a late model Marlen all-pull even. Never really hankered after a push-pull, even though I am reasonably familiar with the mechanical characteristics of the Emmons system.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 17 Jun 2009 6:40 am

Arch,
Yes it was a struggle!
I had to use all my fingers and toes.

Dave Grafe · Post by **Dave Grafe** » 17 Jun 2009 9:15 am

Two summers ago I loaned my old red ShoBud Pro I S10 3+2 to a young fiddler that I had been playing with backing Joni Harms so that he could practice all the good stuff that I had taught him. Since then brother Doug Jones found and the kid's parents subsequently purchased for him a nice Emmons PP S10 8+4 - needless to say HE is down the road laughing.

I asked him to bring the ShoBud back home a year ago last winter but it never showed up, he now won't even answer or return any of my telephone calls and the latest scoop is that he is moving to Gnashville as soon as he gets back from his current Australian gig with Joni, maybe it will show up there before it shows up here....

The upshot of all this is that my '74 Emmons PP D10 8+5 is now for all intents and purposes the only pedal steel guitar in my stable, it works and looks real good and has tone to the bone, still I wish I could afford a second guitar to pick at home.

THE GOOD NEWS is that really soon a lot of you Music City pickers will meet up with a bright-eyed, talented young fiddler/guitarist newly arrived from Oregon and you will have something you can both talk about (we do want him to get a reel good welcome there, of course)....

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 17 Jun 2009 9:57 am

I have 4:
early '70s MSA D-10 8P4K.
late 70's Sho-Bud Super Pro D-10 8P6K.A black one.
early to mid '70s Mullen S-10 3P3K.Not quite a double frame.
'06 Mullen RP U-12 7P5K.

Only sold one-a late '70s Fender S-10 3P1K.Covered in black vinyl.

Tor Arve Baroy · Post by **Tor Arve Baroy** » 17 Jun 2009 12:48 pm

And

I first got the bud, then I bought the GFI to keep one guitar set up at home for practising etc. and the other one for road-use.
The weight issue kinda says who is who $:\$

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 17 Jun 2009 2:05 pm

Just these two babies ! And an 8-string Fluger/Marrs Catcan.

Ray Kedge · Post by **Ray Kedge** » 17 Jun 2009 2:12 pm

Two seats as well as two Zums that just showing off!!

Len Amaral · Post by **Len Amaral** » 17 Jun 2009 5:00 pm

I refer to Phil Graham when someone asked him about how many guns he owned: "I have more guns than I need but not as many as I want" Same with steel guitars for me.

Jim Bates · Post by **Jim Bates** » 17 Jun 2009 7:03 pm

Two.

Emmons LeGrand '93 custom made (polished necks on top, Emmons humbuckers and my E-13th tuning setup)

Sho-Bud Super Pro, 80's model, black, original BL 705 pickups and E 13th tuning.

Previously owned Sho-Bud X over new, and two Pro III Customs used.

Thanx,
Jim

Michael McNeill · Post by **Michael McNeill** » 18 Jun 2009 5:03 am

Currently I have 3 Pedal Steels:

Black Carter D-10 9 X 8
Black GFI Ultra D-10 8 X 8
Black Rains SD-10 3 X 5

Something about "Black". Sounds better.......... (in my mind)

Keep pickin'

mc

Trevor Fagan · Post by **Trevor Fagan** » 18 Jun 2009 5:57 am

Three...

Sho~Bud Pro1...

71 Emmons D-10 p/p...

...and of course my "1st True Love"... 70's Maverick. I don't use this guitar any more... but can't stand to part with it. I guess it's kinda like breaking up with your first girlfriend... you don't want her anymore, but you don't want anyone else to have her either

Sorry Ladies

Adam Sorber · Post by **Adam Sorber** » 18 Jun 2009 6:05 am

Two in the arsenal for now:
1: 1984 MCI S10 (home)
2: 2008 Magnum Pro Select SD10 (Gigs)

Waitin' in line for a custom Showpro Lloyd green

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 18 Jun 2009 6:07 am

Got most of them at garage sales....

....PLUS

Bill Stroud · Post by **Bill Stroud** » 18 Jun 2009 6:33 am

Double 12 Dekley 9 & 8
Sierra Session Universal 12 9 & 9
Sierra Crown Universal 12 9 & 7
Emmons LeGrande II Double 10 8 & 6
Mullem RP Double 10 9 & 6
Mullen G2 Double 10 9 & 7 ( being built)
Sho-Bud Pro 1 Single 10 4 & 6 (being gone over) by James Moorehead will be like new.

Guitars galore, two Dobro's top of the line.
Several different amps & speakers too much to list.

I like them all.
Bill

Don Sulesky · Post by **Don Sulesky** » 18 Jun 2009 8:47 am

I own two.
A 1999 Emmons LeGrande II I bought new from Bobbe Seymour.
A ShoBud SuperPro built around 1982 or '83.
I alternate betwen the two and use one for my students when they don't want to carry theirs to and from their home.
Don

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 18 Jun 2009 9:27 am

Just these 3.

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 18 Jun 2009 11:22 am

This is the first time since about ’92, when I owned (2)-Franklin PSG's that I once again own (2)-PSG's! This time I own #1.) Burgundy Derby D-10 (8 & 8) and #2.) Reddish/Brown Sho~Bud Pro II CUSTOM D–10 (8 & 4). Why two-guitars? I have no idea! They're pretty, I guess!

Nick Reed · Post by **Nick Reed** » 18 Jun 2009 2:39 pm

I've got several, but this is the only one that counts!

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 18 Jun 2009 2:55 pm

Several, my wife thinks too many, methinks not enough.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 18 Jun 2009 7:22 pm

I'm not tellin'. But it's gettin' hard to walk around in my practice room. And there's prolly two amps for every one, and then all those guitars and resos and saxophones and keyboards and harmonicas. If I was a music store, I'd prolly be the 3rd largest in town.

Isaac Stanford · Post by **Isaac Stanford** » 19 Jun 2009 6:22 am

Hey Dave - Let me know when your having your next garage sale.

Gary Preston · Post by **Gary Preston** » 19 Jun 2009 12:56 pm

Three ! My Sho~Bud Pro ll Custom i bought new in 1977 and a 1980 L.D.G. my buddie bought new and my new Emmons LeGrande lll . I think i have enough for now !

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