The Steel Guitar Forum

Love all steel music. For non-pedal I
have D-8 Blond Stringmaster which I love. An Oahu, a Supro, an 'Electar', a Dobro, a Melobar, and some custom S-8's that I make which are like Stringmasters in tone and function - I call them Berkley Legacy guitars. This way I can leave the Fender home where it's safe!

But play pedal too!

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Chris Kennison
Ft. Collins, Colorado
"We can't afford to let Nature Run Wild" - govt. offical - Alaska

It all started with a Paul Beard Flinthill. Then came the Melobro, Gibson EH-500, Melobar D-8 SuperSteel and a flea-market, no-name 6 string lap. Oh yeah, the back neck on my D-10 Fessenden too.......

Ian,,,with all those guitars you could open a steel guitar music shoppe,,,,and make a lot of money,,,boy what a collection,,,where do you find room for all of those???

Jody:
Hey, cut it out, would you? The last thing I need is people suggesting I have a large number of guitars, since I'm still trying to sell my wife on the idea of guitars-as-wall-art and guitar-case-as-end-table. I've actually sold off quite a few the past couple of years (one of life's great principles: you sell toys to buy toys), and will probably have to dispose of at least two or three more soon. If anyone's interested in anything on the list, they can drop me a line at my new address, donian@sympatico.ca.

I play a '56 Fender Triple 8 Custom and a '49 National Chicagoan but I have to admit I've got the pedal urge real bad.

'51 Fender Dual 8
'53 Fender Dual 8
'54 Fender Dual 6
I think I see a pattern here.

Great attitude Ian! I love this forum... Thanx for the great ideas & mentoring from Basil, Ian, Brad & many others too. I play blues; folk-rock; country-rock; rock-a-billy & a little swing. I started out playing bottleneck & dobro in low 'G', took 14 years off to have a life, then got into C6 lapsteel with a vengeance. I love the Nashville sound, but I never got used to pedals... My axes:
'50 Leilani (Magnatone) Varsity 6
'49 National Chicagoan 6
Excell Frypan 8
'39 Kraftsman single cone
Johnson Dobro (jet black)
I own a Sho Bud Maverick s-10 which I have set up for C6th, but I dont use it since I got the frypan!
My current 'project' is an S-8 neck salvaged from a National or Magnatone multi neck console. I want to make it into a good 'swing' steel.

Wish list: Any tricone & a double neck National/Valco or Rick- however Supro or Magnatone will do for me since I'm a picker not a collector & a serious amateur- not a serious proffessional...

Don,,,,nothing wrong with you urge to get a pedal guitar,,,,some of my best friends play pedal guitar,,,,get one and try it,,,see if you can get the "timbre" and sound from the best of them out there as you do from you old fender guitar "custom" then e mail me.

DONT SELL IT ,,,you'll be sorry

Bob,,,have you ever had the pickup assembly off of your T 8 custom guitar,,,e mail me need to ask you something,,,,,,Jody

Jason,,,you are not missing anything,,,do what you like best,,,I have three pedal steels,,,Emmons, Fender 1000, ShoBud I like the Fender non pedal guitar the best ..... I love the chord possibilities of a pedal guitar,,,but pedals are for bicycles....I have reflectors on my pedals and knee levers ,,,when I press a pedal or move a knee lever ,,,they light up,,,,way cool Im going to patent that,,,do you think Im "nuts"?? dont answer that,,,,<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 10 May 2001 at 06:54 PM.]</p></FONT>

..good one..
I use and love my old Ricky Mod.59 build 1938 most with a C6 Tuning and a Melobar SLS with a G ore differend tunings for more rocky songs and Dobrolike sounds with my Matchbro.
Live I switch a lot between my JCH-Pedal-steelguitar and my lapsteels.
BRGDS to all forumies
Didi Waechtler


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didisteel@aol.com

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I must admit, this forum is the best thing since sliced bread in my opinion. I've been playing the resonator guitar for about 4 years now, and started experimenting with the PSG about a year ago. My current band the Rafter Bats does mostly orignals mixing Bluegrass, Rock, and Counry-swing.

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Scott Camara
Emmons S10 p/p
McKenna Resophonic
Marrs RGS
ODE Banjo
http://www.rafterbats.com

Love this thread!

I have only one NP steel at this point:

1960 Fenders D-8 Stringmaster (C6, E13).

I currently have the C6 tuned to an open A7 for blues playing with a more traditional sound, although, I sometimes just use the C6 for that, too, and just avoid certain notes.

I am looking to get an 8-string lap (Melobar or Sierra) sometime soon to take to jams, etc., and have one more tuning, also. Six strings are fine, too, but I like the spacing of an eight.

Love this forum!
TJ

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Todd James Weger/RD/RTD
1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (E13, C6) through a vintage Super Reverb

Have we now heard from everyone?Is the number firm?

Dobro,Weissenborn,Bear Creek,National Tri-cone,Oahu electric 6...Fender single 8 (Stringmaster type),Sho-Bud Pro-1(rarely leaves its case)
mike

Todd The Fender is all you need,,,be glad you have it,,,,

I play a doubleneck Dixon 787R, one neck has seven strings the other eight. It was owned by someone called "Imalois" (she painted her name on the front). It has a place for
three legs but I use a keyboard stand.

Ever heard of a Dixon? I have inquired before but no responses.

Bill Henderson

'62 Fender single 8 Deluxe (Stringmaster style)Tuned A6. I like it because I can play standing up with my 'Tele' hanging around my neck. Never had a pedal guitar. Seems too mechanical. The only pedal I use with the steel is the Boss RV-3 digital reverb sometimes if I'm in my Vibro Champ amp. (Can't get used to a volume pedal on the steel, although I like it with my guitar???)
Haere mai,
Steve H.

Epiphone Les Paul with nut extender with 10-52 strings tuned to open G while I wait for the woodshop to reopen so I can finish my lap steel(poplar body similar shape to the TeleRatt but with a Gibson-esque headstock). the LP seems to be an ok learning option, but I'm not putting the 16-56 strings on it.

We are trying to locate all the non pedal players on the forum.Please join us on the topic.

Fender D-8 Stringmaster
Fender T-8 Professional
National 6 string
Melobar 6 string
Oahu 6 string
JB Excel Fry Pan

Right now I only have 1 lap steel. 1953 Fender Champion 6 string.

Looking for a Fender 8 string single neck to go with it so it doesnt get lonely.

my .02 cents worth. a mid-30s regal/dobro squareneck and a 50s harmony mother-of-you-know-what lap steel through a black-face 60s fender princeton and, since i'm assuming they count cuz there's no pedals either, bottleneck slide guitar on a 70s dobro roundneck and a 1999 national delphi. but, i just got my 70s lloyd green sho-bud and brother is it fun.

"Pre-war" Bakelite Rick with white plates (Open E)
Gibson Royaltone (C6)
'99 Regal Dobro (Open G)

'27 National Tricone

My Rickys
'34 Frypan
'37 Silver Haw.
'37 Bakelite
'38 Bakelite
'38 D14
'39 Silver Haw.
'40 Bakelite
'46 NS
'47 Bakelite
'48 Academy
'58 SW6
'59 S100

Fender Dual Pro (1 trap; 1 boxcar)
Magnetone Lyric D8
OMI Dobro
Superior Weissy
Sierra Laptop 8 (w/ Horseshoe Pickup)
JB Frypan (w/ Horseshoe Pickup)
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