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Topic: What the....part II. |
Rich Upright
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Posted 2 Jul 2015 11:40 pm |
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If aliens built PSGs.....or a bad acid trip??
Looks like a prop from a 50s Sci-fi movie "E9 From Outer Space" maybe?
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 2:32 am
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I'll take it! 
Here's what the builder said, that I wouldn't wonder if there's been something similar (and perhaps obvious to someone):
PS7: "I don't know if anyone has ever done it this way or not? Just something I came up with. It works, is simple, and seems rock solid, stays in tune. I did something similar on my last guitar, except I used cables.
Not shown in the diagram, is the way I manage to have two strings pull different travel lengths. Two rods from the tuner fingers connect to a single lateral rod, which has a center rod from it, and it allows for varying travel lengths."
More details and pictures at http://steelguitarbuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1056
Thanks, Rich! this is rich.
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Lane Gray
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 4:19 am
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That's one way to do it. One could also put the pivot on the deck, mounted horizontally, with the bellcrank offset a bit
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 4:44 am
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Lane, did any manufacturer in past do it this way?
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Lane Gray
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 5:19 am
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Not that I know of. It's common for modification.
Pull-release guitars BUILT to raise and lower usually mount the cross-shafts in the middle, like your reverser.
Lowers go along the deck and raises farther away, like a push-pull.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 5:45 am
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Cool. Thanks so much, you're a fountainhead.
(That's a good thing.)
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Lane Gray
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 5:56 am
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If you look on my Perm thread, there's a picture of the slick way Sho-Bud had of tuning the intermediate note of strings that raise and lower.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 3 Jul 2015 6:32 am
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Ok, I thought I'd seen something like that.
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Bill Ford
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Posted 4 Jul 2015 3:27 pm
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
| Lane, did any manufacturer in past do it this way? |
First Sho-Buds, and a few of the early all pull mfg. did the horizontal,spring loaded to lower....BF
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