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Topic: A Swivel-Mounted Console Steel |
Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 12:37 pm |
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| Without pedals to have to worry about, I'm surprised someone hasn't come up with the idea of a D8 steel, with another D8 underneath, on swivel mounts. Then you could just flip the steel over for a new tuning. It would take a lot less floorspace than a Quad-8, and you wouldn't have to stretch to reach the furthest neck. |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 2:24 pm
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It's already been done and it didn't work too good... 
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 3:01 pm
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That's cuz the legs should be facing up.
But, seriously, I remember seeing some pics a few years back of a guy who had mounted 3 non-pedal necks on a device that would let him spin them around like Alan was suggesting (as opposed to like ZZ Top, which would be pretty cool). I'll have to search and see if I can find the link to those photos. |
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 3:14 pm
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Found it! go here:
http://www.martinhuch.de/ and click on "Music", then click the link for "English" (unless you can read German), then the link for the "Thunderlog". |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 3:41 pm
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Yeah, the "Thunderlog":
Steinar
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Mark White
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 3:51 pm
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I bet it weighs a ton  |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 5:44 pm
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| Now that's what I call an instrument. That's exactly the sort of thing I mean. |
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Andy Barlo
From:
Schererville, Indiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 4:36 am
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| I'd like to see the case for this guitar. Seems to me that the instrument would be sitting on one of the necks unless the sopport bar it is mounted to the case . |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 10:23 am
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 1:19 pm
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 1:40 pm
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This idea is Not New. In the 1970s at the Roy Acuff Museum at Opryland in Nashville there was a Quad Neck Steel Guitar, similar to the Thunder Log. It was from the 1940s or 1950s.??
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Michael Lee Allen
From:
Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 2:45 pm
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REMOVED
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Joe Stoebenau
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 4:10 pm
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Anyone remember the Rabro? It was a dobro with a neck on each side of the body.
I never actually saw one except in a fuzzy picture. If anyone has some photos, please post them.
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 29 Jan 2008 1:06 pm
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