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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 10:47 am |
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Here is a new one of mine, its kind of a variation of my other Deco steel.
This build was for a friend of mine that is a pickup winder, thus the sudo single coil inlay at the 12th.
He wanted the Tele trim, so thats what we used.
The knobs are going to be changed out, just have not decided on what yet.
Some specs;
25" scale
African mahogany / Khaya and quilt maple
Amber shellac sealer to pop the quilt a bit toped with Tru Oil
Mammoth ivory inlay and nut
Pickups are BG-Pups, a hot BG-Bucker bridge and a BG-Stealth neck
The photos are not my best, but I'll re-shoot when I get the knobs sorted out.
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Jude Reinhardt
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Weaverville, NC
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 12:42 pm
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Very nice. Beautiful wood and precise workmanship. Thanks for sharing.
Jude
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Kevin Greenberg
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Lakewood, CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 1:30 pm New deco steel
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| That's a real nice one. Makes me want to go buy some more tools and get busy. |
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Jude Reinhardt
From:
Weaverville, NC
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 1:55 pm Wood knobs
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This looks like an interesting selection of knobs.
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Jude
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Jerry Gleason
From:
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 3:22 pm
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Another great job on a beautiful lap steel, Tom. Interesting about the shellac. I discovered this on my own when I was experimenting with maple finishes for my Dynalap, in another thread. Shellac seem to pop out the figure in curly maple better than anything else without accentuating the grain itself. I tinted the shellac with dye to get the red-orange color on my guitar. The good thing aout that is that you can thin or rub back the shellac with alcohol to even the color out if it gets blotchy, or the shellac gets too sticky to work with. It must have been you that turned me on to Tru-oil. That's great stuff too.
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 3:49 pm
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Thanks all 
Jude, those knobs look great and the price is certainly reasonable, you can't make them for that.
Kevin, nothing like a good excuse to buy tools 
Jerry, yep, I'm a big fan of Tru Oil, it has a great feel and can really bring wood to life.
I didn't tint the shellac on this one, the dye would have stained the ivory.
The flake I used has a nice natural amber tint to it.
I mixed a thin 1 lbs cut and did a couple wash coats.
The thin cut lets it get real deep into the irregularities of the figure.
Here is a pic of the flake.
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David Simenson
From:
Merced, California
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 11:34 pm
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It doesn't seem like the inlaid pickup at the 12th fret would pick up more than the middle 4 strings. Is this a problem?
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Jude Reinhardt
From:
Weaverville, NC
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 1:54 am Sudo, pseudo
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I'm thinking the pseudo pickup at the twelth fret is decorative as the owner is a pickup builder. Tom builds better than he spells, whereas I'm just the opposite.
Jude
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 1:58 pm
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| I finished a curly/birdseye maple gunstock by almost finish-sanding it. I rubbed in a light coat of a brown stain. Let it dry, and then finish-sanded it. The stain barely seeped into the very tight grain, but it did penetrate the curl and the birdseyes. The finish sanding removed the stain from everywhere else. I was into Tung Oil at the time. I built a drying box from an old speaker packing box and an industrial strength old hair dryer. I was able to do 4 coats a day of hand-rubbed oil. Did about 30 coats. It looked smooth, shiny, and about a foot deep. A lot of work, but it was worth it. Got me a bunch more gunstock work. I'm sure the same technique would work with other finishes. |
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Terry Farmer
From:
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 5:23 pm
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| Tom, you do beautiful work. I love your steels. I'm curious about something though. It appears you have the bridge adjusted making the scale length of each string different. Did you do this for intonation purposes? It's very unusual in the world of lap steel. Please enlighten a fellow steel building experimenter. Thanks. |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 9:21 pm
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| Hats off for a beautiful guitar. I'm pretty sure it would look good on anyone's lap. |
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Tighe Falato
From:
South Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 2:59 am
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Another beautiful steel and I bet she's wails too  |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 5:42 am
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A really beautiful work of art, but I'm curious about the settings of the adjustable bridge pieces.
Why are they 'staggered' ? |
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 8:50 pm
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I'm probably stating the obvious, but it reminds me of the National models like the New Yorker.
As Basil asked, why are the adjustable bridge pieces staggered ? There's no fret pull to compensate for. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 9:26 pm
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Impeccable workmanship Has a New Yorker influence to my eyes, very art-deco. I would think it has a wide tone spectrum, with two pickups.
Another fine job |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2008 4:50 am
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| hats off to shellac. nice decision there. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 6 Feb 2008 8:33 am
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| Very beautiful grain in those pieces. Again, I think it's outstanding! |
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 6 Feb 2008 10:19 am
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Thanks all
Yep, as with my other deco design, there is lots of National influence in there, I love that look.
On the bridge saddles, the pic was before I got it set up, bridge comes pre staggered.
I was loosing my daylight and took the pics before I had even plugged it in.
I've been thinking of ditching the saddles and replacing them with a section of some SS round stock, kinda like a String Master bridge.
So many ideas and so little time.
After playing around with it for a few days, I've been enjoying the neck pickup and middle combo.
The pickups the owner sent me are very nice, but he also makes a HB sized P90 type that I like a lot.
I've got a couple of them here and might toss them in for a few laps around the block.
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Don Fox
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2008 11:15 am
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| Just gotta say, I love the headstock shape / layout as well. Great design! |
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Fred Kinbom
From:
Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Ulf Edlund
From:
Umeå, Sweden
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Posted 7 Feb 2008 2:25 pm
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Wonderful 
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