The Steel Guitar Forum

These are my 2 new Derby's
I'm starting to learn again, after my accident
last year which destroyed all of my memory.
I'm the one that does the Videos for Charlie Stepp
in the Derby Room in St. Louis each year and
also for Bobbie Reed at the SISGA each year.
Carl aka "Lucky"

Maybe someone on here knows who did the airbrush on this steel. I have a Tele I would like to have painted to match.

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Here's mine

Ok, just couldn't let this thread go! We are damn lucky to have taken up such a freakin' cool instrument! They're all beautiful. Ricky I think the picture of your MSA in the snow (pg 25) is one of the best steel guitar pics. Here's mine. She's a little rough around the edges, but has served me well over the years and made me a pretty good chunk of change. There aren't enough MSAs on here!

Dan, all you need is one of these for that pretty orange geetar!

Man, there are a lot of nice guitars on this thread! I've been doing a lot of saving of these pics!

Hey John, Ive never seen that before! Yeh thats my 63 Gretch . Ive had her 21 yrs, monster rockabilly AX!!

This could well be my last steel, at 71 I dont think I shall ever get a better sounding steel than the Sho Bud, and light to boot, nice action, and just starting to enjoy the C6th neck after all these years it's been staring me in the face, well, about 12" away, but never got interested in it too much,now i'm starting to favour the back neck.

This has been posted before but i love my Carter so much,so here we go again

John I Have Her sister.

Found this picture.I don't know if it's real or trick photography, but still cool to look at !

#130...the only Franklin with cutaway corners

Hey Rene, thats a cool pic of that stretched Emmons

Hey Neil that,s pretty cool only difference is the logo colour

I found these old photos of a couple of my home-built steels, which have long-since gone on to pastures new.

One photo (a bit blurry) shows a steel-in-progress.

The year is about 1986

Mike...Love the "Airbrush" work on your steel!!
Way KOOL!

richard burton wrote:I found these old photos of a couple of my home-built steels, which have long-since gone on to pastures new....

It takes a lot of guts to build your own pedal steel guitar. Were you motivated to do that by the unavailability of pedal steels in England ? In all the 35 years I was living there I only saw one lap steel for sale in a music shop, and I never ever saw a pedal steel for sale anywhere.

Alan,
I was fascinated by the sound of the pedal steel, but I was also broke
I am a design engineer/toolmaker, so I designed my own from the ground up.
The first one was an absolute disaster, but by number seven I had got it sussed
The green steel is number 3, and the white steel is number 7

richard burton wrote:...I was fascinated by the sound of the pedal steel, but I was also broke...

Me too ! I tried to build a pedal steel in 1972 with what tools I had, almost entirely in wood, and it never stayed in tune. The first pedal steel I could afford was about four years ago. I wonder how many people play non-pedal for decades simply because they can't apport pedals.
I've always had a yen to play the Vibraphone, but they're even more expensive than pedal steels.

This is the guitar I played Professionally for 20 years.

It was the last body John Hughey build and was the cluster, an awesome guitar and hated selling it to a buddy John Towner on the Gold Coast of Australia (who I am now teaching) but with the road case just got to heavy as I am no longer on the road I went looking for a lighter guitar.

This was the Original Rosie as Jimmie Crawford called her.

Have found a great second hand JCH this time 8 x 8 so will be much lighter to handle.

Wayne