The Steel Guitar Forum

Hi yall. First post and I'm glad to be here! I've Been playing a Guyatone double 8 console for a couple years and want to get into a pedal steel. This one came up for sale locally but it is quite puzzling. If anybody can tell me what make or model this is I would be very grateful. The fretboard looks like a franklin, but the rest of it just raises questions.

That certainly looks like a home-built steel; hard to say what it sounds like or how well it performs. Could be decent (read: "playable"), or it could be crap. I would pass on it and try to get something a little more well-known.

Has a Franklin fretboard, but don't look like anything Mr. F Sr. has been responsible for (from what I seen).

The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought

I'd pass on that one regardless of how low the price is. It looks like trouble.

Trouble? Yes, probably. But I do like the little leather loop on the end of the case, likely put there to pull it out of the pickup-truck bed after it had slid forward.

Looks Reel to me..

Brian McCulloch wrote:The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought

Believe me, people have done that and more, lol.

Hard to judge what the changer is made of and the type of mechanism, & if stable enuf to hold tuning(s)..need underbelly views to verify. Could’ve been an employee’s crude ‘prototype’?..using avail ‘spares’ to equip it? Agreed..,that troubles are not ‘Farah’-head of you, Brian. IMO.