The Steel Guitar Forum

Playing home made for years,throw them in back of truck,and let the party begin,
Hose it off the next day,and go again!!!!!
If it gets torn up,build new parts new wk.
hehhehehehheheheheehe

to much put on the pretty steels,if you play it good at midnite it don't matter.

farris

Farris,
you mean like this?
By the way - this is NOT my guitar!



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<FONT face="arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#003388">Peter den Hartogh</font>
<font face="arial" size=1><B><I>1978 Emmons S10 P/P; 1977 Sho-Bud D10 ProIII Custom;
1975 Fender Artist S10; Remington U12; 1947 Gibson BR4;</I></B></font>
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Farris. you are a good guy, and I appreciate the things you've said about what it looks like...and for a number of years I also didn't care what it looked like. But, we're talking about musicians take on these things, and not about the "publics" view...and their view is different!

The bottom line is that: "I don't care what it looks like, and you don't care what it looks like......but those people who we play for do care! So, compromise is relative!

God bless you all,

gene www.genejones.com

A pretty gueetar don't take anymore room than an ugly, abused gueetar! You can tell allot about a man by the way he takes care of his equipment.

But Then again, I tend to drag $4000 dollars worth of steel equipment around in my $1000 car. But at least my priorities are squared away!

I think looks DO count. There are some steel (like Joim Palenscar's Blue MSA Legend) that are just drop dead gorgeous, that I would enjoy looking at so much if I had one that it would inspire me to play better, and others I find so unnattractive that I would have difficulty playing them.


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You mean whether it IS real wood or just LOOKS like real wood? Personally, I like real pretty natural wood under real pretty stage lights, somehow I just play better that way....dg<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Dave Grafe on 15 May 2006 at 10:03 AM.]</p></FONT>

WOW
This is just to funny,now when i played the bars,sure i wanted them to be pretty!!!!
but at midnite the people didn't even know what it looked like!!!! hehehhehehehehehe

and then when i played in church later years. they kindda notice the spades and hearts ect. hehehehehehheehehehe

but who really cares as long as that steel crys and makes the tears come???????

farris

If you are just playing at home or in small taverns, perhaps you can get away with something a little rough, but say you are doings something a little higher class, like dinner theater or an auditorium show... People aren't going to want to see a banged-up old head gate out of a ditch up on stage you know.

What happened to the photo Peter posted? Did it break something? I loved that one. If my old '60 Pedalmaster wasn't buried so deep I would post some of it's undercarriage. It has Ford windshield wiper pulleys and cables, coat hangers, plungers thru the body in the keyhead all a lot of neat stuff I added to it as new pedals and levers evolved. It sure was pretty from the topside though. I would like to see a whole bunch photos of these old guitars. It is amazing how great some of them sounded regardless of what they looked like. That old Pedalmaster recorded great.
Jerry

COME ON PETER,
Give us that picture!!!!!!
Mine have been threw away a long time ago.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS MAN.

I used bike Spokes ect for linkage,it still loaded the girls at closing time!!!!!!

WOW What a sound it had!!!!!! hehehhehehehe

bring um on guys

farris

Is this where we get to invite postings of the "World's Ugliest Steel Guitar"? Nah... Just watch Ebay...

Life's too short to play an ugly steel,

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Darvin Willhoite
Riva Ridge Recording

I USED CUTOFF LAWN MOWER HANDLES FOR PEDALS

KNEES, WHATS THAT??????????

BRING UM ON GUYS DON'T BE ASHAMBED!!!!!!!

farris

..Geez, Peter, looks like you played that one through a train wreck....literally.

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Who sez it's my guitar?
I found this picture on this very forum, I think

my daddy was a mighty fine steel picker..better then most on here that i've heard...he played a Sho~Bud...i've had it under my bed since the early 80's...his philosophy, was all you need to do is change the strings....the sides of the Sho~Bud have cigarette burns where he laid his cigarettes and it bured down to the guitar...the case smells of rotten cigarettes, fom every bar joint in West Michigan, plus the booze soaked lining of the case still smells as though he played it yesterday. You could use his Sho~Bud for illustrations on how "Not" to treat a steel guitar. But it never changed his sound or tone. He told me if i don't clean it and polish it..i don't have to worry if i scratch it or burn it". Now i am going to leave that old Bud under the bed for a few more years..sell it on the forum, to someone who will think they have a gold mine, and get it refinshed and have enough money into an old 27 year old worn out dinosaure to actually buy a good steel guitar. But be that as it may. I think, if you clean your steel, polish, lube it. And take care of it. You play and sound better. Now, i've never heard ole dad play a clean guitar. Now i will admitt i've never heard dear ole dad play a clean, well taken care of steel. So i can't really say if his philosophy is correct. But i'd go so far as to say..i bet some one will buy that old worn out beer logged, smoke filmed, cigarette burned, personal hygene stained piece of junk and make me a happy, well to do gentelmen, and i will have me a good steel guitar built...thanks Dad!

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Whitney Single 12 8FL & 5 KN,keyless, dual changers Extended C6th, Webb Amp, Line6 PodXT, Goodrich Curly Chalker Volume Pedal, Match Bro, BJS Bar, Boyette Glass Bar, Carvin Guitars, & Amplification, and other neat stuff, and a 165 Pound Great Pyrenees..
I was keyless, when keyless wasn't cool...

Here's a picture of my dad playing his "homemade" double neck steel guitar. The legs are made out of water pipe. Right around 1948 or so. Doing a live radio broadcast on sundaynights, on station WKBZ 850 AM in Muskegon Michigan.


....."now i could tell that man was my own sweet dad..from a worn out picture that my momma had". ...."and the best thing he ever went and did was name me George".....
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Farris, are the H and E letters worn off the top of your keys? George (Redmon) it won't be me buying it.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Barry Blackwood on 15 May 2006 at 04:10 PM.]</p></FONT>

Farris, my problem is that my steel looks a lot prettier and is in better shape than I am.
Duncan

This

or this:

Barry.....i wouldn't either...hell i won't even play the thing...but you watch in another 10 years or so...they will fight over who gets it..why? the name on the front...i must say though..with all honesty..it plays as good as any other Sho~Bud out there...for what that's worth....to me..not much, but to some, priceless......

Duncan, for a minute there, I could have sworn I saw David Letterman playing a ZB ....

I know Barry...the two words that pop into my mind are "pitiful" and "pathetic", in no particular order. I'll bet that Dave plays the ZB better too.
Duncan

CHAS,

I;m just in shock!!! DAM at the 2X4s YEP,i;ve now seen it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys are the best!!!!!!!

Bet that one wasn't built by ORANGE COUNTY CHOPPER SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

farris