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Topic: Gibson T-8 PEDAL steel 10 pedal Grand! |
Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Smiley Roberts
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Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 5:53 am |
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GOOD GRIEF!! Was that thing buried in the desert for a while? That's in PITIFUL shape!! 
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 6:33 am
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| The pictures show a missing tuner button, at the very least. The text says "The instrument is still in good condition. Other than a few light scratches to the sunburst finish." So we start out with a lie. What else may be untrue? (I don't want to chew on my foot so I'll make no comment on this being BE's work in the event that he comes along and says 'yep'.) |
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 6:36 am
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| orginal date of when it was made is unknown. The pedals were added by "Buddy Emmons" for the orginal owner, who sold it to my father sometime between 1965 - 1970. |
the pedals look like old Shobuds
reminds me of a post by Carl Dixon mentioning the times when steelers were adapting thangs to there steels to get that sound...
 [This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 21 August 2004 at 07:37 AM.] |
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 7:47 am
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Jon, the guy mentions the missing tuner button on the inside neck, but I think I "PASS" anyway.
fred
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The spirit be with you!
If it aint got a steel, it aint real
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 8:01 am
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Aha--that was added in a revision (I've still got the original ebay page open in a window on my screen.)
There's a 'you never know' element here. I've got a Dual Pro that was absolutely hacked for the purpose of adding pedals. This here is something far more ambitious. I will watch info develop on this with fascination. Could it be as he describes?[This message was edited by Jon Light on 21 August 2004 at 09:05 AM.] |
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 8:05 am
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I thought I knew all the Gibson"s pedal guitars, but I never saw or heard of this one. It looks like they are trying to make a fingertip sho-bud or early Push Pull out of it.Strange........al
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 8:40 am
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| It looks like maybe the pedals were added at Sho-Bud, during the "fingertip" era. If Buddy was involved in the transaction, the story could have been mangled over the years. |
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Smiley Roberts
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Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 4:11 pm
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Well,from my viewpoint,the only thing "mangled" here,was the guitar!
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 4:24 pm
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| . [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 17 November 2004 at 08:56 PM.] |
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2004 5:57 am
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Well, I emailed the seller and asked for pics of the bottom, the seller replied that he was going to post them.
I'm still waiting.....
Jay
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Peter
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Posted 22 Aug 2004 8:34 am
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If BE was involved, he would have shifted the pedals to make space for the volume pedal.
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Peter den Hartogh
1978 Emmons S10 P/P; 1977 Sho-Bud D10 ProIII Custom;
1975 Fender Artist S10; Remington U12; 1947 Gibson BR4;
Internationally Accredited 3D Animation Academy
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2004 11:55 am
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I'll bet the bottom of that thing looks like a bowl of spaghetti!!! 
Uff-Ta! |
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Jim Florence
From:
wilburton, Ok. US * R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Aug 2004 3:34 pm
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I installed one pedal on my Gibson console grand in 1954, using some welding rods and a 1X4 board. I must say whoever did this job, certainly outclassed my work by far.
Jim |
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Gene Jones
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Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 22 Aug 2004 3:43 pm
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The youngsters who are incensed about the modifications of some of these old instruments need to realize that when the changes were accomplished those instruments were not classics...they were just old steel guitars and their resale value was minimal because the pedal evolution had arrived and made them obsolete! 
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 22 Aug 2004 3:50 pm
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Gene--I agree with you 100%. If you had me in mind with your post, I absolutely agree that at the time, these were players, not collectables. I suspect that I would have probably messed with one of these back then to try to get a pedal thing happening.
My only reference was to this particular Dual Pro that I got (for around $300) that was truly mangled. Wood gouged out here, metal drilled and bent there, a fourth leg added---really awful. I sent photos to Jody and I think I could hear him weeping from over here. |
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