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The photos aren't much -- by the time I learned how to use the new digital camera, it was too cold to take it outside. But I sure think this is a pretty steel!





And now the happy owner!

Nice guitar!

Tony

How pretty! Nice guitar.

That'a a guitar I'd like to onw!!!! How many knee levers???

Greg

That's a beaut Barry! Love that curly maple. How does the 700 differ from the earlier 400 and 600 series?

WOOHOO!!!. Now that's a purty steel. Congratulations Barry. I gotta try me one of them Williams thingys.
We too are cold here...I believe that the high is only in the low-mid 60s today.
Duncan

Beautiful Guitar

drooool!!!!!

If I had been blessed with lots of money instead of good looks,I'd own another Williams.

It's purdy.

Five knee levers...

The 700 Series has a redesigned changer and a one-piece keyhead, I'm told, but I have never seen another Williams to compare it to...

I think it's as pretty as the old Sho-Buds, and it works as well as my indestructable old MSA, and the sound purrs like a 900 pound tiger...

Where are you other Williams owners? Upload! Let's see 'em!!!

Barry, the Williams guitars look great and play like they look. Yours, I'm sure, fits the mold. Here is the one my wife bought me for as a retirement gift as if retirement were not enough. We were at Bill Rudolph's having picking up another Williams guitar on which he had worked. She saw this color blue on one of his steels & a year later summer 2008 became Christmas for me. Take care steve t

Lovely axe Barry. Play it till it drops.

Barry,what is that cool looking Telecaster-like 6 string to the far right in the photos? stevet

The six-string Steve asked about is a Carvin AE-185. I have two, a six- and a twelve-string. Telecaster shape, semi-hollow body, acoustic-style bridge with piezo which can be mixed in with the two humbuckers (which have coil splitters), neck-through body, active electronics, switch for putting the two magnetic pickups out of phase, locking tuners, stereo outputs. The six has a black walnut top and the twelve has a spruce top. They'd be nice if they had a few pedals and knee levers!

As I've stated in other threads...I just love that Williams

Barry and Steve those are both Butes!!

Hello Barry, Real great PSG. I'm a recent Forum member and I posted on Pedalstell index "I'm looking at my first PSG". I'm 48 and I'm playing since years in a Bluegrass Band in Milano Italy.(as you can se by my recent posts). I've received a lot of Suggestions, and in the and I'm thinking seriously to become a Williams owner (SD10 400 or SD10 600, 3/5 E9). RED MICA is good.
Typeing "William "in the forum search utility I joined this post so that I would like to receive some comment. I have a doubt related to Wood Neck or Aluminium neck. I was told that Wood has more Mellow sound respect AlU tha has more bright one, but Some member told me that wood neck PSG could stay less in tune than AMU caused by temperature and humidity variation. I like Wood and its inlays however I would avoid to become crazy with staying in tune (remember I'm PSG Beginner). Could you please share with me yr Williams necks Experience ? I hope to enter soon in a Williams Owner teams. Thanks in advance Daniele

Barry Hyman wrote: Where are you other Williams owners? Upload! Let's see 'em!!!

Mines a keeper (3 & 5)

ERN

Barry, Here's mine.
Yours is beautiful! Bill sure builds good looking guitars, which also work well and sound good. I'll try to get up in your area to see yours and hear you play some time this summer.
Larry J.

About the wood neck staying in tune -- I have never had a problem with it. But then I tune Equal Tempered Tuning with a $25 tuner, tune all my strings, pedals, knees, and splits to straight up on the tuner, and can tune the whole guitar in less than a minute. No compensators, no fancy calculations, no expensive tuner, no bother, no time wasted, and it sounds fine. So if it goes out of tune a little at an outdoor gig, I can have it tuned before the band starts another song. But it stays in tune amazingly well -- I can take it out of the 68 degree studio into ten below zero cold, put it in the back seat of a cold car, take it to a gig on a bumpy country road, and ten out of twelve strings will still be in tune when I get there. I wouldn't worry about a wood neck...

Not a 700 but a 600, i got for a Fo'bro' here in France

This is a 2006 Blood Red 400 Series

My recent Williams D10. Jeweler friend made the Williams logo out of brass/gold
for me, with Ivory/gold palm tree on right front. Bill Lawrence pu's. This steel is
light, quick, tight and sounds amazing. The keyless system is easy, accurate, minimalist in design, and rarely needs tuning baring temp changes. If you're thinking of a new steel and are tired of weight, Williams is state of the art.
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My S-10, 700 series Willy