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Topic: What would your choice of a new steel be |
Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 5:22 pm |
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| If you could pick any new steel on the market today. Price no consideration. Has to be currently under production. What would you chose |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 5:37 pm
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Mullen or Show Pro.
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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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Douglas Schuch
From:
Valencia, Philippines
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 5:43 pm
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I'd be curious to check out one of the new, light, high-tech Excels. Beyond that, though, I think I prefer my MSA Millennium to anything on the market today - light weight, stable body, etc. Maybe a Fulawka? But I'm not sure if Ed is still taking orders.
Edit: it just occurred to me that both of the builders I mention are in their 80's. I wonder where the next round of innovation in the PSG world will come from.
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Bringing steel guitar to the bukid of Negros Oriental!
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 5:49 pm
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| Sho-Pro or Fessenden. I like the guitars and the guys that build them. Not to say that the others builders don't make great guitars. It's just that I have had pleasant dealings with them. |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 6:20 pm
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My Excel packs the best tone and most function into the smallest lightest and best sounding package I've ever played:
http://www.gregcutshaw.com/Excel%2012%20String%20Keyless/Excel%2012%20String%20Keyless.html
No one guitar has the best in class of everything but this would be my choice. There are many other great choices based on what features are most important to you. There are at least 4 other brands of guitars I would be 100% satisfied with including Williams, Mullen, MSA and Infinity.
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Jerry Hedge
From:
Norwood Ohio U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 6:22 pm
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| Show Pro!!! |
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Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 6:41 pm
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| Greg. Does that option come with a keyed model. Have you saw the JET10 tuning BMI has. I'm using I guess what I would call a universal 10. I have no 7th or 9th string. My ninth and 10 are G# and E. I like it. The JET10 is close but puts a C# between the E and B and the ten us G#. |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 6:51 pm
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| Not sure about a keyed model. Mine has all 10 of the classic E9th strings, no compromises with two more bonus strings. With the simple throw of a lever I get a full 10 string classic C6 , no compromises and two more bonus chromatic strings. |
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Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 6:56 pm
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| You have any opinion between the sound difference of a 10 and 12. |
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Bruce Bjork
From:
Southern Coast of Maine
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 7:05 pm
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How about Justice?
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Banjo, Dobro, Guild D-40, Telecaster, Justice Pro Lite 3x5, BOSS Katana 100, Peavey Nashville 112 in a Tommy Huff cabinet, Spark, FreeLoader, Baby Bloomer, Peterson StroboPlus HD, Stage One VP.
"Use the talents you possess; the woods would be very silent indeed if no birds sang but the best" |
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Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 7:08 pm
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| I'm playing a justice and really like the sound |
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Chris Reesor
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 8:32 pm new dream guitar?
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Another Excel Superb, keyless, 25.5"scale, much like my current guitar, but single body U12 instead of double. I would add two more knees in the centre,for 8X7 total.
I would also see if Fuzzy could make the lock lever change the functions of the right knees for pure B6 playing. (Probably a piece of cake for Fuzzy)
Last but not least, two pickups with a tele style control plate: volume, tone, 3 way pickup switch.
Colour? Robin's egg blue.
P.S. Sounds like Greg has fallen in love. Didn't take long.... 
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Excel Superb U12, MIJ Squier tele, modified Deluxe Reverb RI, Cube 80XL, self built acoustics & mandolins |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 8:34 pm
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MSA
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 11:19 pm
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| Don't forget Desert Rose. Chuck builds quality gtrs that play and sound great...plus they're really easy on the eyes. |
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Ned McIntosh
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 25 Feb 2017 11:26 pm
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I've seen a lot of very good comments about the Rittenberry steels, so I'd probably go for a Rittenberry D10. Mullens are also seriously good steels - but I already have one.
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The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 1:02 am I Can Only Dream.
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| Sho-Pro, Justice, Shlid come to mind. Fortunately, my "Old Road Dog" Emmons LGII still plays and sounds good for a 22yr. old guitar. So my final steel guitar is this one, and after pickin' this baby for 12yrs., it's a keeper. |
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 1:17 am
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It won't make any difference what steel you get, you will still sound like you.
I was watching a youtube video recently, Tom Brumley playing a Legrande, he sounded exactly like he did when he played a Mullen, and when he played an Annapeg (imho)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBhMLjIawcM |
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Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 2:32 am
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| You will sound similar on different steels but there is a difference. Listen to david hartley. He sounds similar on different steels. Same touch. Same touch but different. If you can't hear it don't worry about it. Years ago in the 70s sho bud and emmons were primarily all that was available to me. Please don't tell me there was no difference in sound. Was one better. No. Different. I've read that lately they all sound the same. I just dissagree |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 4:18 am best psg
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| I'd take one of each ! |
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Robert Parent
From:
Gillette, WY
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 4:34 am
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For a current production guitar I would pick a Williams.... They are about as close to what I currently play which is no longer available.
Robert |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 5:03 am
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On the basis of mechanical features and cool engineering, the top of the heap appear to me to be, in no particular order: MSA, Williams, WBS, Schild and Sheffield. Those who dig vintage vibe shouldn't forget Jackson or Kevin Hatton and his new ZB style guitars.
On the basis of "OMG, what a gorgeous combination art and machine", the ones that spring to mind are, in no particular order: Sheffield, Ben-Rom, Williams, Show-Pro, Desert Rose, the Giles-body MSA and the Desert Rose. WBS and Schild get a special mention for taking the simple, sleek aesthetic of the original mica Emmons to a little bit farther.
The makers not in those two lists of outstanding are still damn fine guitars and I'd proudly play all but one, whose builder has personally left a bad taste in my mouth (two if you count Voldemort). And I'd still play one of those, but I'd rebadge and refretboard.
Generally speaking, Ford, Kia and Chevy don't count among the "OMG, I am in love with this car" but I'd buy another Kia in a heartbeat
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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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Wesley Medlen
From:
LaCygne,Ks
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 5:20 am
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The Judge by Justice
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Justice S10 Jr, Gibson Electra 6string, Boss Katana 100, Steelers Choice ,Gretsch 6 string lap, Hilton VP |
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Ken Metcalf
From:
San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 6:47 am
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Hard call
MSA Mullen |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2017 7:00 am
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Fulawka,Ben Rom, or one of Kevin Hatton's ZB tributes.... bob
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I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
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