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Topic: help with the changers |
Dan Auldridge
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Poteet Tx. USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2015 5:28 am |
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| ok this is my problem and I hope some one can set me straight.. I have built an 8 string pedal steel with straight fingers. now what I need to know is how to raise and lower the E strings on the same finger changer. any helpful suggestions would help. I can raise it with no problem but cant figure out how to lower the same string on the same straight finger. thank you .... Dan |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 24 Apr 2015 7:13 am
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Richard Burton has a handy diagram, and he'll be along shortly. I suggest editing your top post and change the subject line to mention pull-release.
One rod raises the string, it will need enough slack to allow the lower to drop.
Another rod lowers. The value of the lowered note should be set by a screw stopping the finger.
This rod will have a spring at the other end, pulling it back up.
There are two ways of tuning the open note: you can attach an adjusting screw to the lever return stop (since there's a return spring on the rod, you'll need a stop to establish the open note) and tune the 4th string E under the guitar, or you can give the lever a fixed return stop thread the lowering rod and give the rod a tuning nut.
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2015 7:46 am
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Lane described how you could do it as a pull release. The alternative, which is too late because you have finished the guitar, it sounds like, is an all-pull for lowers like a Bigsby. You have a two armed crank behind the changer that when pulled with a cable or rod on the top wing the lower arm pulls the finger toward the end plate. Either way, as Lane describes, your lower will fight a dedicated and tunable rod that returns your finger to a floating but repeatable open.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Dan Auldridge
From:
Poteet Tx. USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2015 3:30 pm changers
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| I realy want to thank both of you Lane and Chris for the help. I did think about that very thing just didn't know for sure how, had some blantons years ago and seems like they were like that.. again thanks a whole bunch guys....Dan |
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Dan Auldridge
From:
Poteet Tx. USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2015 3:40 pm changers
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| hey guys just looked at the drawings and it all makes perfect since now, again my thanks to the both of you....Dan |
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Dan Auldridge
From:
Poteet Tx. USA
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Posted 9 May 2015 11:54 am problem solved
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| again thank you for the help.. you can close this any time |
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