Holding onto bar

Gary Steele · From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

I read where a guy took a dobro bar with the Groove and glued it to a bar. That may work for some people, who knows.

Lee Rider · From: Fort Bragg, California, USA

I had a friend make me a rail bar out of 1-1/8" round stainless stock. I have issues with my left hand and it works great.
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Bowman SD10 push pull 3x5, Modified Hudson PedalBro, Sarno Tonic preamp, Evans FET 500. with Altec 418B, Standel Custom 15, '67 Showman with D-130F in cabinet, Ganz Straight Ahead, custom Wolfe 6 string dobro, '52 Gibson Century 6.

Bobby D. Jones · From: West Virginia, USA

As long as you have a smooth straight slightly rounded surface to contact the strings. No law on how the rest is shaped to hold in your hand.
I got a hand made combo bar in a bunch of trade goods. It had a round 3/4" bar, With a grooved lap/dobro guitar brass bar that had been cut and silver soldered to the round bar.
It worked good, But did not fit my hand.

Brett Day · From: Pickens, SC

When I started playing playing the pedal steel guitar, I used two different stainless steel bars-the first one was a Dunlop bar, then in '03, I started using a grooved bar called a Sacred Steel bar. Billy Phelps had introduced it to me at the International Steel Guitar Convention, but because of cerebral palsy in my left hand, my left hand would get tired and start sweating and I didn't have much control of the bar. In 2017, I decided to learn to play the dobro so I could add to steel playing, but was unsure of how I would handle the bar, so in 2023, while on a trip to Sevierville, Tennessee, I realized how much I missed playing steel, so I decided to go to Emmons Guitar Company to see what kinds of steels they had in their shop, and as soon as I walked in, I was sitting behind a 1994 Emmons D-10. I tried two different bars, but the third one was the one I liked best. It was an Ezzee Slide polymer bar, and I found out it was much easier for me to handle, and this year, after going back to Emmons and playing an Emmons ReSound '65 with the same bar, I now have an Ezzee Slide bar of my own and it's the best bar I've used. It will stay in the left hand, doesn't slide around, and does its' job very well!

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