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Topic: And they paid $300 for it |
Edward Pilcer
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2016 10:09 am |
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Happy New Year - I found this while hunting for a lap steel. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is the original Criagslist ad:
http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/msg/5330707122.html
Enjoy
Ed
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Larry Carlson
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My Computer
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Posted 1 Jan 2016 10:37 am
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Wow.
A bit odd but I have to admire their imagination and ingenuity. 
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I have stuff.
I try to make music with it.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2016 11:39 am
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Them Hillbillies !!! 
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Jb in Ohio
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GFI S10 Ultra, Telecaster, a Hound Dog, and an Annoyed Wife
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Michael Maddex
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Northern New Mexico, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2016 3:13 pm
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You will find detailed plans for building an Ironing Board & Hub Cap Steel Guitar beginning on page 94 of Homemade Music Factory by Mike Orr, published by Fox Chapel, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-56523-559-5.
 Enjoy!
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Jan 2016 3:43 pm
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Well, as they say, it does stand up with retractable legs.
A "beautiful instrument"? I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally I wouldn't be seen dead playing one. |
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David Knutson
From:
Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 2 Jan 2016 10:52 am
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Aw, c'mon Alan . . . can't we press you into taking this on as a project? You could iron out the design flaws and ultimately add to the fabric of steel guitar . . . OK, I'll stop now . . . .
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 2 Jan 2016 11:05 am
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| David Knutson wrote: |
| Aw, c'mon Alan ... can't we press you into taking this on as a project?... |
It looks like a completed project to me.
It did, however, give me ideas as to how parts from an ironing board could be incorporated into the hollow body of a console guitar. Since a console (nonpedal) guitar has plenty of room inside it could be used for fold-up legs. I have a console guitar in my workshop right now that I built for my own use about eight years ago, and I'm constantly adding improvements to it. Right now I'm in the process of adding extra pickups and I'm thinking of adding fold-up legs. |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Jan 2016 8:38 pm
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| Sorta reminds me of the "frying pan" that LT Zinn had brought to a convention some years back..like a real frying pan with a neck on it, which he played of course !! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 5 Jan 2016 10:57 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
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You've forgotten the guy who screwed some machine tuners, a pickup, and a fixed bridge, to his fence in his garden.
Many people, over the years, have erected strings outdoors that sound in the wind. In fact there's one outside a Science Museum close to here. They're usually on hillsides. It's only a matter of time before someone puts a pickup and an amplifier on one.  |
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