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Topic: New Rodeo |
Robert Colaninno
From:
Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2008 9:16 am |
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I just got my Lap King Rodeo last thursday and I wanted to give a review. This steel is incredible!
The top is absolutely amazing to look at. The burst on the front and back is just perfect.
Jason has started using the bridge like on the 8 strings and it feels great. This one has a rosewood fingerboard and a custom wound Lollar single coil pick up. It's sounds wonderful.
Really warm and gorgeous bass. The pick up is killer.
I just couldn't be happier with it.
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Twayn Williams
From:
Portland, OR
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Posted 7 Oct 2008 10:15 am
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Primitive Utility Steel |
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Vince Luke
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2008 12:30 pm
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That's a beauty! Rodeos are my favorite electric steel. I see he's changed the way he does the bridge--used to be an assembly with individual string saddles that rests (held in place by string tension) on a plate on top of the instrument. This one looks nice & clean and probably makes string changes easier not to mention less risky to the finish (in the hands of a klutz like me).
Congrats on the new steel Robert & nice work Lap King/Jason Dumont!
Vince |
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Jason Dumont
From:
Bristol, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2008 4:32 pm
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Thanks guys!
Bob, I'm so glad your pleased!
But now I'm obsessed with getting one of those Swart amps we plugged into!
I getting one this week  |
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Fred Kinbom
From:
Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.
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Ed Altrichter
From:
Schroeder, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 9:32 pm
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Is this the one that is said to have the "Hank Williams/Don Helms" inherent tone, reminiscent of
the Gibson console Grand ? |
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Jason Dumont
From:
Bristol, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2008 6:06 am
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Hi Ed,
That would be the "Grand Rodeo" using a Lollar Grand Console pick up and having two large cavities.
"This gives this model a very airy, warm tone that emulates the hollow console models so popular in Western Swing"
The key word is emulate here. I don't think anything is going to give you the exact tone of 50 year old console..... Well except a 50 year old console.
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