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Topic: My first 'Homemade' Steel |
Ernie Pollock
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Posted 24 Sep 2016 9:39 am |
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This guitar was made the same as the other one I have on the forum, it was made from a door jam [part of a door that you step on coming in your house] my brother was going to throw it away & said, no, I am going make a guitar out of it, he wanted to send me to a 'shrink' to see if I had lost my mind, but he got over it. I kept this one for a long time, probably over 15 years till a fellow stopped by & just had to have it. I wish I would have kept it now. So if you ever make one, don't sell it, you will regret it later. Oh I almosts forgot, I put an MSA Supersustain II pickup on this one, thats not the pickup in the picture. Levers were the same as the blue one.
Ernie Pollock [please feel free to make 'jest' of this guitar - you can't hurt my feeling, just please don't make yourself sick lookin' at it!] |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 24 Sep 2016 9:49 am Re: My first 'Homemade' Steel
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| Ernie Pollock wrote: |
| it was made from a door jam |
Son of a gun. Certainly well-aged and compacted.
I applaud your ingenuity. Maybe recreating early ideas. I like them both, but I imagine the blue one sounds better. |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2016 10:00 am I think your right Charlie
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I like the sound of the blue one better myself, the MSA Supersustain pickup was not near as good a sound as the older pickup by MSA [single coil] that is on the blue guitar. Am still working on a idea to lower my F# down to F [what the 5th pedal does to it on C6th or B6th. I am running out of room under the guitar & have to do some 'engineering' to get that change on it, but am in no hurry, sometimes if I let it go awhile it will strike me as how I can achieve that change. Thanks for your interest & comments.
Ernie Pollock
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 24 Sep 2016 10:09 am Re: I think your right Charlie
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| Ernie Pollock wrote: |
| have to do some 'engineering' to get that change on it |
The underneath did strike me Rube Goldberg at first. Conceivably, you could have an array of fold-up levers on every string,
but that'd be the only time your brother might want to send you to a shrink.
You have to admit, it's light weight. Cool stand, particularly on the blue one. |
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