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A friend of a friend asked me if I could help him with his redneck steel guitar. It was inherited from his father who just passed away.

Its 6 strings, 3 pedals and 2 knees, and a pull-release changer (I think...looks different from what I've run across).

I can get everything working I think but for the life of me I can't figure out the copedent or tuning. From looking online it seems like the standard tuning would be BEG#BEG# and P1 raising Bs to C#s, P2 G#s to As, and P3 top B and E to C# and F# (or reversed) and the knees raising and lowering the Es a half step.

From what I can tell the following is happening:
P1 raises string 3
P2 raises strings 1 and 4
P3 raises string 3 and lowers string 2
LKL lowers strings 2 and 6
LKR raises strings 2 and 6

This is me guessing since I haven't restrung it yet (any thoughts on string gauges?). I'm also assuming those extra fingers outside the normal changers are for the lowers (so maybe not quite a pull-release?).

The new owner doesn't know anything about it but wants it setup "original" so instead of swapping stuff to make it more standard I'm hoping someone has some insight.

I found a Facebook page about them and messaged but haven't gotten anything back (last post was Jan 2022). The website linked doesn't have any contact info.

Thanks!











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If you measure the scale length and had calipers to measure the string size you might be able to work out the anticipated note

The following link may help shed some light on that, for you: https://htredneck.weebly.com/

Now, you can go to You Tube and look under the following channel: rzsdad1 He Mr Miller post on there, quite a bit and he should be able to help you out, as well.

Hope this helps.