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Topic: Ash as a lap steel wood |
Michael Aspinwall
From:
Arizona, USA
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 6:13 pm |
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Michael,
Are you making the lever hardware and selling seperate?
More info please. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 6:30 pm
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Swing out levers! Great idea. That way, they're not a pain in the ash....  |
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 7:01 pm
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George Rozak
From:
Braidwood, Illinois USA
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 7:05 pm
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I think Herb Remington uses ash in his line of non-pedals.
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Sho-Bud: Professional & Fingertip
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 7:25 pm
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| Elva West (Tradewind Guitars of Anaheim, CA) makes very nice guitars using ASH. Nice thing about ASH, it is a light weight wood. |
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Michael Aspinwall
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 25 Oct 2005 7:48 pm
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| Thanks all--Roy, I could fix you up with a mech if you want to--Would be well under $200USD, made to order. I'm not a guitar company, just a hobbyist; I'd email but you don't seem to have a listing. I have three other similar instruments I've made but thisn's by far the best;it's the first "pedalap" I've made with a "free-standing" mechanism (incorporates an "under-bridge" to increase the down tension on the bridge)--Just screws into the top of the guitar instead bolting through the body. No rollers, but stays in tune real good thanks to the un-notched stainless steel bridge. Sounds real purty too. You can email me direct for more info....and thanks for your interest! |
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Mark Vinbury
From:
N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 4:28 am
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| Mike- Nice looking steel. Very cool bender device. Any chance of some sound samples?. |
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Michael Aspinwall
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 7:14 am
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| Dom--Nice axe! I've gotten a couple of requests for sound samples; soon's I figure out how to do it I'll post. (That may take awhile............) |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 9:06 am
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| Ash is a fine tone wood. Negatives are wide open grain that makes finishing tough. You have to use a pore filler or slop on a lot of lacquer and wet sand until pores are filled. Even then, the finish will sink into the pores and look uneven over time. The other is weight. Regular ash is much heavier than swamp ash which grows in wet areas and has more white growth wood between the rings. |
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James Quackenbush
From:
Pomona, New York, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 10:15 am
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George,
Swamp Ash is the Ash that is light in weight ....There were a lot of early Fenders made out of Swamp Ash and Alder.....Your typical Ash is HEAVY !!!....This is the Ash that they use to make baseball bat's from !!..... There are some companies that use the heavy Ash for their guitars , but it's a very HEAVY wood, but has good tone qualities ......I'm pretty sure that Elva uses Swamp Ash which is also very resonant , but light in weight .. ....Jim |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 10:54 am
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| Man, do I like that. Great levers. |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 2:10 pm
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| Michael-- I like it! What's the current tuning...also how much extra space is needed behind the bridge for installation? --Steve |
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Michael Aspinwall
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2005 2:22 pm
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| Distance from the bridge to the axis of the changer mech is 4 1/4"---It's tuned open E (E-B-G#-E-B-E top to bottom) & the levers are set to raise the 2nd string a whole step and the 3rd string a half step to achieve that I-IV change when using both levers; the 2nd string changer alone gives you a minor. Simple and minimal--Just like my playing skills! |
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