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Page Wood
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Posted 30 Aug 2002 11:10 am |
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So what about playing regular guitars
in your lap with a raised nut? I'm getting a great sound out of a converted baby Taylor. Would a Tele make a good fake Stringmaster? |
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R. L. Jones
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Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2002 12:34 pm
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Sure ,Page I`ve done that, I hunted for a "Dobro" for ,awhile, In the meantime I had an old Penco Dreadnaught, that had a great sound. I raised the nut ,even usrd an old spice bottle for a bar, had a pretty good sound, Then I ordered a spider from Epiphone, had a surprising good sound. That is until I found this " Benoit" that just blew me away
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2002 5:32 pm
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I modified a Yamahoppy 12 string with good results:
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Page Wood
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 31 Aug 2002 11:26 pm
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| That is a wild looking axe! Any more custom jobs out there? |
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R. L. Jones
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2002 5:55 am
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Yep .thats the word,;"WILD"
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Page Wood
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 2 Sep 2002 12:33 am
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| bump [This message was edited by Page Wood on 02 September 2002 at 01:39 AM.] |
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2002 3:50 am
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Paul Franklin has a tele he uses for a lap steel, it doesn't have the tone of a stringmaster but, I think it sounds good. I have an old True Tone acoustic that I have set up for slide playing
and I've used it on sessions and everybody seems to like it and I have 3 lap steels I use to. Try anything that has strings on it.
Tony |
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Page Wood
From:
Los Angeles
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Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
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Posted 3 Sep 2002 5:56 am
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Using a tele as a lapsteel:
Danny Gatton used to shove a snapped-in-two butterknife under the strings at the 2nd fret whenever he needed to get lapsteel stuff in the studio.
Heard it on his Criusin' Deuces CD.
Definately fooled me.
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Tony Palmer
From:
St Augustine,FL
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Posted 3 Sep 2002 5:00 pm
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Wouldn't that ruin the neck of the Tele?
Assuming you tuned it up to C6 or something other than open E, is the skinny round neck of a Tele suited for that amount of string tension? |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Page Wood
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 4 Sep 2002 10:54 pm
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| Howard- That's quite a story! And a great work of art came out of it . Did you at any point consider making the guitar itself a resonator box- i.e. a box that lays in your lap and has strings and resonator set into the top? |
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nick allen
From:
France
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Posted 5 Sep 2002 12:48 am
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Regarding Gatton, I'm fairly sure he only used open E on the Telecaster.
There are recordings around where he also plays pedal steel. He said in various interviews that once he started playing with Buddy E, he figured he was better off selling the pedal steel and using the money to hire Buddy for whatever period of time it covered 
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R. L. Jones
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Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2002 1:24 pm
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Tony ,you`re absolutely correct, round neck guitars are made for hands to reach around to make chords and topick out melodies, Raising the nut put`s more stress on the neck, It actually pulled the bridge loose on my old Penco,. Well I needed help. Carrol fixed it for me , Dont do that`s what old Archie Campbell used to say. Now you know the rest of the story
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