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I just purchased an MSA Classic SD12 3/3 (was a D12 with neck removed) for my 10 year old son to learn on. His teacher requires 3/4 so I need a RKR with components that will fit this guitar. The tuning will be extended E9.

Please contact me if you have the parts that I need.

Thanks,
Don Roach

Tom Bradshaw did my floor pedal and X-lever kits for my MSA Classic. Also had other parts I needed to replace as well.

I could not ask for a better job than he did.



I am sure he has what ever you would need for the guitar.

I'm not real familiar with using a forum, do you have an email for Tom Bradshaw?

tbradshaw@california.com

http://www.songwriter.com/bradshaw/

From his site:


Products: MSA Knee Lever Kits

I provide original and remanufactured knee lever kits for MSA guitars manufactured before 1985. All parts match the parts on those instruments. The listed parts can be purchased in complete kit form or individually at the prices listed.

Left Direction Kit: $111.00
Component Parts:

1. Knee Lever (polished aluminum): $25.00
2. Knee Lever Clamp with Allen head bolt with nut included: $20.00
3. 1 stainless steel cross-shaft (3/8" diameter. Specify if for double or single-neck guitar) and 2 nylon rail bearings for the cross-shaft : $6.00
4. 1 solid "permanent-stop" bellcrank: $12.00
5. 2 (4-hole) bellcranks ($15.00 each) for actuating 2 strings: $30.00
6. 2 pull pins for bellcranks ($4.00 each): $8.00
7. 2 threaded changer pull rods (supplied in 33" lengths for cutting to size), with nylon tuning nut: $5.00
8. 2 changer pulling tubes ($2.50 each) (1/4" X 1 7/8" long): $5.00 each

Right Direction Kit: $150.00
Component Parts:

1. Knee Lever (polished) with Allen head bolt: $25.00
2. Knee Lever Swivel Clamp with Allen head shoulder bolt and compression washer: $25.00
3. Reversing Pivot with Allen head shoulder bolt & compression washer: $15.00
4. 3 pull pins (with set-screws) and 2 four-inch connecting 1/8" rods: $12.00
5. Rounded-end bellcrank and 6-32 Allen-head screws and stop extension: $15.00
6. 1 pull pin for rounded-end bellcrank: $4.00
7. 2 (4-hole) bellcranks ($15.00 each) for actuating 2 string: $30.00
8. 2 pull pins for bellcranks ($4.00 ea.): $8.00
9. 1 stainless steel cross-shaft (3/8" diameter. Specify if for double or single neck) and 2 nylon rail bearings for the cross-shaft: $6.00
10. 2 threaded changer pull rods (supplied in 33" lengths for cutting to size), with nylon tuning nut: $5.00
11. 2 changer pulling tubes ($2.50 each) (1/4" X 1 7/8" long): $5.00

Still looking for a used knee lever

His teacher requires 3/4 so I need a RKR with components that will fit this guitar.

I teach a lot of children how to play the steel.The first thing that I teach them is where all the notes are.Then we move on to bar technique and blocking.These three things take a lot of time.your sons teacher has some time before he even gets to the knee-levers.

Ron

Thanks for your reply Ron,

I set up the height etc. on the PSG for him this weekend.. WOW .. I couldn't believe all of the adjusting that I had to do to make it fit him and do what the pedals/knee levers are designed to do .. I even had to make and thread new pedal rods for it because the ones that were on it were almost 2 inches too long.

Perhaps because Dane has a solid musical foundation with all of the other instruments that he plays, his teacher must be taking a different approach than some. She has tought him how to chord and block already and now she has him working on fills. She has him using both knee levers and pedals to achieve fullest sounding chords with the least amount of movement explaining what the levers/pedals are doing, what notes are being played, and what chord inversion he is using... she made it clear that he did indeed need 4 knee levers, thus my request.

Thanks again for your help Ron,
Don Roach

Donald,
I probably have what you need.
Email me or call me if you can at <bobbybow> or 281-856-9453.
BB