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home made pedal steel, show us your picture...

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 12:41 pm
by Damir Besic
I would like to see custom home made steel guitars made by forum members...lets see it

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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 1:14 pm
by Gary Lee Gimble
Body by Paul Vendemmia, hardware from my 1977/8? PP
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 1:15 pm
by Gary Lee Gimble
debug..double post :whoa:

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:05 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
Body By Paul Vendemmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:06 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
Body By Paul Vendemmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:08 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
Body By Paul Vendemmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:10 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
Body By Paul Vendemmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:11 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
Body By Paul Vendemmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:13 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
Total rebuild by Paul Vendmmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:15 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
customize by Paul Vendemmia
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:18 pm
by Paul E Vendemmia
I'm done now !!!!
But I do have one more on the bench but you'll have to wait
Paul

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 2:40 pm
by Randy Beavers
Dang Paul, you can borrow my guitar anytime. Especially if it comes back looking like any of those! :whoa:

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 3:24 pm
by Chet Wilcox
all of mine have been home built with small Mill and Lathe
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 3:40 pm
by Bent Romnes
Goody! Here I get to show off my home built one more time...and right under Chet's excellent piece of work.
Yeah, being a member sure has its perks.
Paul, your creations are absolutely stunning.


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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 4:27 pm
by Chet Wilcox
Bent, I think Your work is Great, and i also think everyones work is Great. it is an evdeaver to try to build these things, each one has its own personality

hi

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 5:48 pm
by Ernest Cawby
Guitars and the builder. Mike Weenick. Lancanto Fl.


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WORK OF ART FRETBOARD

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THE LAST GUITAR HE BUILT I played this guitar for a month and did not want to take it back,.


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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 9:02 pm
by Pat Comeau
I build this guitar with a drill press and home tools,(,changer,fingers,neck,body,bellcranks, pedals, rods and everything else except for the support bridge, nut roller bridge, fretboard,pickup and legs that i took from my old Maverick.
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Posted: 22 Sep 2008 11:13 pm
by chas smith
I don't have any good pics of this guitar, but this is what I've got:
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Posted: 23 Sep 2008 12:42 am
by CrowBear Schmitt
French Fo'bro' Tony Q is in the midst of makin' this one

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Posted: 23 Sep 2008 2:45 am
by Ron !
Ok here's a couple of um.
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Posted: 23 Sep 2008 3:04 am
by Charlie McDonald
CrowBear Schmitt wrote:French Fo'bro' Tony Q made is in the midst of makin' this one.
Man, that's the nazz. Somebody's got the right idea.
Is that a solid plank, without endplates etc?
That's art.

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Chas Smith

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 3:24 am
by Martin Weenick
Charles Smith, thats a pretty combo on the wood with the quilted maple aprons and curly maple decks. I was wondering where you got the quilted maple from? I used to buy it from Northwest Timber but they got so expensive I had to look elsewhere. Still havent found a decent supplier. Martin.

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 5:21 am
by Damir Besic
amazing instruments, do you guys have any sound clips of your guitars too..??? I would love to hear what they sound like..they are all beautiful instruments...keep`em coming...

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Posted: 23 Sep 2008 10:24 am
by richard burton
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Posted: 23 Sep 2008 10:48 am
by chas smith
Martin, I did some work and/or traded something for it, a long time ago. I made that guitar sometime around 1995, the neck and top plate are machined from a single plank.

If you think wood is expensive, wait until you price titanium tubing. I originally intended this to have 5 peds and 4 knees, but the more I thought about the kind of music that I was going to be playing with it, I decided to just put a variation of a diatonic tuning on the 12 string neck and be done with it. The 8-string bass neck can do some damage:

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