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Topic: Your Favorite Lap Steel Is.................. |
Dennis Burling
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 5:51 am |
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| What is your favorite lap steel and why? |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 6:14 am
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| My Asher Hawaiian Model 1. I have never played a lap that had a betterbtone |
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Thomas Temple
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 6:51 am My Melbert
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I truly love my Melbert 6 string, built like a tank, stays in tune, sounds great, looks great and was built to my specifications without breaking the bank!  |
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 11:31 am
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| It's always the one I don't have, like the unique 8 str. Ricky Frypan, short scale, solid neck/body... in original copper krinkle, that so far I've only heard about. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 11:35 am
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Maybe Rick Aiello's long scale Rickenbacher Fry Pan. After that, I'd say my Clinesmith has kept me happier than anything else I've ever played.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 12:39 pm
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My Monkey Ward Rocket that I just cleaned up.
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James Kerr
From:
Scotland, UK
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 12:47 pm
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My 1950s National Dynamic Replica
Because I built it.
James.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 2:19 pm Here's what I think............
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My pre-war Rick, seven string, Bakelite (all three of them) are my favorites.
It's extremely ACCURATE in all of its playing. It's tonal capabilities exceed anything I've ever heard since 1948. It's so easy to play. |
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Tony Lombardo
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 2:28 pm
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| I haven't played many steels, but mine feels and sounds just the way I would want one to sound and feel. It's an 8-string JR Burns lap steel equipped with a Rick Aiello Potbelly pickup. |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 5:35 pm
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| Rickenbacher frypan... because it sounds so frypan-ey. |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 7:13 pm
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Remington. Stays in tune under some very bad conditions. Has exquisite tone.
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 8:46 pm
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My favorite is my 1934 long scale Rickenbacher Fry Pan. There is no steel guitar that equals the sound. It sounds so old fashioned!  |
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David Knutson
From:
Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 30 Mar 2013 8:59 pm
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Hate to go acoustic on you all (no I don't), but my Shot Jackson 7 string reso thrills me every time I pick it up.
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Billy Mostyn
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 3:56 am
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I have to say one of my own Mostyn "Sofala" lap steels. Actually the first one I built. 22 1/2 scale, my own self wound buzzbucker pickup. Quilted maple top. Has a bone nut but I now use brass.
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 4:08 am
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Since i started out Steelin' on a Gibson BR6, i kinda stuck w: Gibsons
there's a bunch of models & brands that i'd love to try
i like the Gibson EH150s
ended up w: this one that i like quite well - sounds great imo
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Matthew Dawson
From:
Portland Oregon, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 5:32 am
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| Long scale Rick Frypan. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 5:40 am
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| Funny how most people's favorites are the 6 strings. |
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Ralph Czitrom
From:
Ringwood, New Jersey
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 6:28 am
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My Sierra 6 with a Dining Car pickup by Rick Aiello and wood plates and cover by Tom Pettingill, because it sounds so good (and I also like the way it looks).
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
From:
Quebec, Canada
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 7:30 am
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For playabillity, tuning stability, look, best for for live show its my Fender Stringmaster T8.
For tone its my Rickenbacher DW-16 |
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Dan Schwartz
From:
Bloomington, MN
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 6:10 pm
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Even though it is not my main guitar and I hardly get to play it live. I would have to say it is my Rickenbacher NS. It feels like I am playing a piece of history to me. So much fun to play a guitar with such historic tone!
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Hal Braun
From:
Eustis, Florida, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 8:49 pm Re: Here's what I think............
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| Ray Montee wrote: |
My pre-war Rick, seven string, Bakelite (all three of them) are my favorites.
It's extremely ACCURATE in all of its playing. It's tonal capabilities exceed anything I've ever heard since 1948. It's so easy to play. |
I'm with Ray on this one as far as tone, but for ease of playing, I like my Fender Deluxe 8. I find the Ricky's bottom knob and the input jack on the player side, along with the strings being pretty close to the fretboard give the edge in playability to the Fender. |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 8:55 pm
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I'm very fond of my 1935 B6, but once you have played a seven or eight string guitar, it is very hard to go back.
My favourite guitar is the "Pagan," an instrument I made a few years ago, partly inspired by Ralph Kolsiana's Polynesian carvings. I play it exclusively now. It is carved from 1 and 7 eighths inch mahagony. The frets are Pacific abalone. The bridge is quarter inch thick aluminum angle and set in flush. The nut is made from a 19th century ivory curio. Rick Aiello made the pick-up and its "shell" is decorated with Torres Strait pearl shell.
PS Other than the fretboard, it has no finish other than furniture polish.
Please allow me to indulge myself:
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2013 5:27 am
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David, that's easily the coolest lap steel I've ever seen. I'd love to hear a clip
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