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i have had my new star about a month now. all i can say is WOW! i would love to 'show it off', if someone would show me how to post pics. i've never done it before. i really don't know how to describe this guitar, other than, for me it's nothing more that the 'complete package'. the mechanics coupled with Dwight Cook's single coil pups, gives me the most beautiful tone i have ever experienced with an all pull guitar. virtuallly no cabinet drop, so it stays in tune very well; and it's so darned comfortable to play! pedals and knees just fit perfect. thanks to the forum for letting me brag a little and thanks inadvance to whom ever can help with the pics!

baxter

Pics?

Congrats on Your Star
email them to me and I'll put them on.Everybody oughta see what got you so excited.
Doc

Here's Baxster's Star

This is a beautiful machine. New Steels are getting better everyday. When you look at everything it takes to make these instruments. Most all the new ones are bargains.
Congrats and play on. I'm enthused by everyone that gets nterested in our great instrument. I really believe the 10 string instrument in the bible is a pedal steel , Not Harps. The double portion blessing is a D10.
Blessing
Doc

thanks dr rickles for your kind comments and thanks to you jim for posting the pics.

very pretty looking new toy

baxter it's a great guitar isn't it? I've had my new Star for about 6 months now and I like it more and more every day.

I hope you don't mind if I hijack your post to share a few pictures of mine. Let's get the Star party started!

Thanks for the pics ...very nice looking steels..
It looks like they have blended some MSA/Emmons/Derby/Sho Bud design work...very nice ideas..

Wow ! these look real good guys
who builds these?
got a link ?

That is nice to see. We make the inlays for Mark to use in those guitars but this is the first time I've seen a finished on.

He is just now finishing up my PSG and is shipping it to me on Monday.
I did the inlays and then sent the body back to him to finish.
It looks great from the pictures Mark sent me, but I am new to this forum and not sure how to post a picture???
Can anyone explain the how?
Andy

Andy ~ have a look at this link -- it should help you with getting pictures posted > > >

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum7/HTML/003957.html

jeff, thanks for posting the pics of your star. i do not mind at all. your cabinet has mark giles written all over it! boy, he does beautiful work! and a heck of a guy to boot.

i believe they are in the process of building a web site, but i don't think it's finished yet. i have seen some laquer star's out there that are beautiful. the GREAT larry agan down in trinidad tx., owns a gorgeous s10. he builds the hardware. he is also one of the greatest guys in the world to know and/or do business with. if interested in these fine guitrars you can call albert talley @ 817-558-3481 or email dwight cook at cookie35@cox.net

baxter

OK, Thanks for the how to, though I use a Mac I think it will still work the same???
I will try to up load these pictures.





If this worked??? Then the first two pics are the one Mark Giles sent me of the finished PSG sans the arm rest.
Lhe last pic is a close up of the front center Dragon inlay we did before the body was finished or even sanded.

Thanks Jim,
That was even less steps on the mac than you show for a windows machine.

I inlaid the fret board and had the guys at my workshop in Viet Nam do the body inlays. Mark Giles and his partner built the guitar.
I will get some better detailed close up pics when the guitar arrives next week.
Mark and I are already planning my next guitar as well as some other projects.

The undercarriage looks very reminiscent of my old MCI Rangexpander !! ???

Baxter-Looks like you have a real nice guitar there, I am glad you are real happy with it...al.

Hey, Andy, that's some beautiful work. Vietnam, you say? Spent some time there and brought one of the natives home with me (married 45 years now). Anyway, there was an artist there by the name of Thanh Le (pronounced tan lay) who was at the top of the trade for those Vietnamese "laques". I don't know if any of his students still do laquer/inlay work though. Most beautiful laquer hanging I ever saw was a red thingy, about 4 feet high by 8 or 9 feet long, of a nude in a jungle setting. Done with mother of pearl, abalone shell, star sapphires, and 22k gold inlay. That thing was owned by my wife's aunt, now deceased. I think it went with her daughter to France. (I have no idea how she shipped it there!) Anyway, just seeing that artwork brought back memories....

Who makes these? And where are they out of? I never heard of Star guitars I am going to do a search on the web...

Answer to A.J. Schobert;
Star Guitars are built by Mark Giles in Texas.
Contact;
Mark Giles
Star Steel Guitars
910 West Pierson
Hamilton, TX 76531

Phone; 254-386-5831

I have some of those Lacquer pictures here too that I have bought on my many trips there.
Been back over 20 times since 1999.
We have a work shop there, north end of Saigon where we make all our products for our web site.
Yes I like Vietnamese women and both my wife (2 Years) and ex (22 Years) are from there... 2 out of three VN and one Itialian wife (10 Years).
Been married 34 years all together so I must like it.

We are working on some new designs for Mother of Pearl & Abalone shel inlays for PSG. Fret inlays and Front Aprons.

i thought star steel guitars were made in trinidad texas.
can't recall the mans name who runs the shop.

Mark Giles has a partner who, If I understand right, does all or most of the machine metal work at another location.
Mark builds the wood cabinets for Star and several other PSG companies.
Hope I have that right????
Maybe Mark will pop in with an answer because I know he follows the forum sometimnes.

Well it arrived today.
It really is nice. I will stick some pictures here but they were taken just before sundown so every speck of dust showed up on the fret board... Oh well.
Not only does it play great and sound perfect but they sent it in a very good raod case that I didn't expect.

I will be some time trying to get my chops together since it's been almost ten years since I sat at a steel.