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Topic: question about custom copedents on steel guitars |
Andy Ellison
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Nashville, TN
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Posted 4 Feb 2014 7:52 pm |
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| I'm looking to buy a new steel guitar within the next few months and want to know how manufacturers handle the copedents of different players? Do most companies have the buyer specify their copedent and then they build a guitar based on that? |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 4 Feb 2014 7:58 pm
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Yep. The only exceptions are the student and some of the low cost guitars which come with their own copedents and can't be changed.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Andy Ellison
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 4 Feb 2014 8:17 pm
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| Awesome, thanks! |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 5 Feb 2014 6:55 am
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MOST steels get made to order, so there are few "standard setups. HOWEVER, if a guitar got built to become an inventory guitar at a music store, each maker tends/tended to have their own "default" setup (Emmons would have Es on the left, RKL raised 1 to G and lowered 6 to F#, and RKR lowered 2 and 9).
If you want more than 8 and 5, it'll cost more for the extra hardware.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2014 7:28 am
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Most companies show their "Standard" setup, and price for that Setup, on their website.
Then they often will also show prices for additional pedals and levers, addition of half-stops, splits, pickup options, etc. |
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