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Topic: Wrist lever |
richard burton
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 11:12 am |
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I am considering putting a wrist/forearm lever on my SD 10 Emmons. Any information, pictures etc would be greatly appreciated. I envisage the lever to be on the end of the steel operating Right Wrist Right, in other words pushing outwards with my right forearm. Is this the norm?
Thanks, R B |
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 12:50 pm
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| Mike Perlowin has or had this on an MSA, I believe. I'd expect that he could provide some insight. |
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 1:59 pm
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I think Mike's WL is RWL if I remember correctly. I just saw him using it at the last "Perl-Jam".
JE:-)>
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Emmons D10 8/4 P/P -75'
Fessenden SD-10 3/5
MSA SD-12 4/4 - 76'
76'Session 400
86'Nashville 400
Bandit 112
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 2:44 pm
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| I have a vertical right wrist lever w/a half-stop on my Sierra U-12. It raises my 2nd string from C# to D and then to D#. I use it as a resting place for my right wrist till I want to use it and then it pushes straight down. A guy in Orange County named John Fry has something similar on a Mullen U-12. I find that a vertical wrist lever doesn't get in the way quite as much as the RWR ones like Mike Perlowin has and plus you can get at it from your normal picking position a lot easier. It's not for everybody but it works ok for me. -MJ- |
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 5:27 pm
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I could not agree with Mike more. Also you have another thing to consider. And that is whether or not you are going to need a reversing mechanism. On regular knee levers, you need this for all Right moving levers. You don't for most vertical and left moving knee levers.
From an installation standpoint it is easier to install IF you do not have to have a reversing ass'y.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 31 Mar 2004 10:46 am
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My wrist lever moves to to the right, or outward.
In some ways it's very cool, in some ways its a pain in the butt. It is not as easy to use as a knee lever, and when you are playing real high on the neck (24th fret and beyond) it gets in the way. And you can't chime while using it.
However it has the advantage of being usable no matter what position your feet are in.
A wrist lever makes sense on a universal tuning because the B-Bb change is usefull in so many situations it needs to be accessable at all times, whether you're playing the E9 or B6 pedals, and regardless of what else your knees are doing. But I can't see a reason for having one on a straight E9 tuning. If I were pl;aying an S 10 I don't think I'd have one.
I'm very intereted in Mike Johnstone's vertical wrist lever, and would like to try it our some time. That might be a better way to go. |
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Mar 2004 12:35 pm
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| If my memory serves me, Tom Bradshaw in the early 60s got together with MSA about a wrist lever. I tried one out at the MSA plant with Jerry sitting at my side. Being the coward that I am I didn't buy it. |
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 31 Mar 2004 8:57 pm
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Many thanks, forumites. I have gleaned some useful information and ideas. I like the idea of a downward moving lever, I hadn't thought of that one.
Thanks again, R B |
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