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Topic: Sho Pro Cat Bro? |
Josh Yenne
From:
Sonoma California
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Posted 15 Aug 2011 10:48 am |
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Hey guys.... I heard a while ago about how Lloyd or Mooney or someone (can't remember right now) had a double neck guitar but one neck was basically a 6 or 8 string "dobro" tuned neck with little or no pedals...
I saw on the Sho Pro site (I have a SP SD10 btw) this Cat Bro guitar... does anyone have any experience with these? I couldn't even find a real picture on the Sho Pro site.. I would love to hear some audio of the "dobro" neck... is there an actual resonator and bronze strings? or is it just a lap steel type tuning with minimal pedaling? |
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Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 15 Aug 2011 12:23 pm Re: Sho Pro Cat Bro?
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Josh, I can imagine it would be fairly easy to build a Marrs style "cat can" 6 or 8 string into the rear neck of a double neck steel. Marvin Fluger is making these style of lap steels currently. I have one of the older ones and when you run it thru a MatchBro, it sounds fairly close to a real dobro. I think the new ones have their own electronics built into them. That would be even cleaner, I think. If you're not playing C6th back there, why not?
Here's their site:
http://www.flugerguitars.com/RGS.html
But maybe Sho Pro is already doing something similar. I like this idea a lot.
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Will Brown
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2011 12:37 pm cat bro
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| josh like tom said marv builds em and the ones he builds sounds like a dobro i have one and marv builds a nice unit vantastic workman ship get a hold of him i am sure he would fix you up |
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 15 Aug 2011 12:43 pm
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| Steel Guitar Canada has a Show Pro with the "Cat Can" on the rear neck for sale, however, for some reason the photos are no longer available. |
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Josh Yenne
From:
Sonoma California
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Posted 15 Aug 2011 2:31 pm
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| yea.. I tend to have more of a need for a dobro sound than a C6 sound with the stuff I'm currently playing... Ill check out Steel Guit Canada |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 16 Aug 2011 7:11 pm
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I run my rear neck with 6 strings, open G same as dobro and use the simulator goodrich about a $1000.00, it's very good especially if you run through a processor and have an acoustic amp simulator in it, you can dial it in! I only have one knee set up on it to raise 4 and 1 to help with the sloppy slants that i don't have at speed, it's a good filler sound and i dont have any fancy chops but it works great in all that charlie daniels type stuff and then use the fuzz for rock 
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Tor Arve Baroy
From:
Norway
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Posted 19 Aug 2011 3:22 am
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Ive been using this setup for awhile, works great for me. Dont have a dobro-sound on it. I use it as a lap steel, but I guess a bobro would make it dobroish enough 
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Olli Haavisto
From:
Jarvenpaa,Finland
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Posted 19 Aug 2011 10:13 pm
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Tor,
Did you ad that yourself or was it factory ordered ?
What kind of bridge do you have on it ?
Ever since I went universal a few years ago I`ve been thinking of having a double neck like that built. Maybe 8-strings....
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Tor Arve Baroy
From:
Norway
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Posted 19 Aug 2011 11:46 pm
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I built it myself. I ordered the guitar without a pad, but just a blank board instead. Ordered the bridge fra Ryan Ryikinava(or something like that, cant remember the spelling  ) |
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