The Steel Guitar Forum

I recently bought a Fender D8 Stringmaster and I'm enjoying it very much. I would like to see how many of you own these great steels. Let's have a look at yours. Here's mine. Thanks

Here's mine, all four of them! Hear it here ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3c70X_WGU

Always glad to see some Stringmaster shares...my D-6

You might enjoy this thread also...

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... highlight=

Thanks for the link, Terry. I had forgotten about that thread!

Yeah Doug...it is hard to believe that thread is 10 years old. Time flies...

Here's a '56, short scale, I foolishly sold a few years ago!

Please excuse my wonderful MAGNATONE that's also in the pictures.

Nice looking Stringmasters here. All of them!

Here are mine:
A quad



And my single neck orphan:

Oh wow! Steel guitar envy!!. Doug!! As ever your playing spurs me on!!!

Feb, 1954

When I started out on Steel Guitar the pedals were a thing of the near future. I owned a Triple neck stringmaster but traded it in for a Fender 1000. Later , after I got into the pedal world I wanted to acquire a non-pedal steel, but I wanted more than 8 strings and I wanted the same string spacing as I had gotten used to on the pedal steel. So I ventured out and came up with my own version of a Triple neck nine string. So this is my (string-master). It's had a lot of use and sounds as good as anything I have encountered since I built it. I hope this is not considered an intrusion to this Forum entry...Thiel

Thanks for starting this thread...I love to see all of those stringmasters ! Here is mine...I like to say it has character Well used, but still sounds great to my ears ! probably the only steel I wont sell !

Tom, that's a very cool picture!

Those Stringmasters are sweet. Back in 1986 I had a beautiful double light yellow that I got for a trade. Months later - I was down and out , took it to a pawn shop in Seattle, got a loan ( to buy food). Weeks later the pawn shop went out of business, doors chained up, windows papered over, and that was that, "doh!" I lost the Stringmaster. That put off my steel playing for quite a few years. Ah, the envy, looking at all those beauties! Still haunts me.

Helping with the setup





"Hmmm... Looks about right."

I am blown away at the number of quads and triples shown. Thats some heavy artillery.
I've have 3 Stringmasters (so far). An early 56 D8 with push buttons, a late 56 D8 with knife switch and a 56 T8.