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Topic: Your first pedal steel. |
Jody Sanders
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Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 8:45 pm |
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| What brand was your first pedal steel. I am not refering to home made pedals, but a guitar manufactured with pedals. Mine was a Fender 1000. Jody. |
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Larry Strawn
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Golden Valley, Arizona, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 9:04 pm
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Mine was an old Wheeler D/10, If my memory serves me right it had 6 pedals, and no knees. Fooled with it a while then through it in the closet until I decided to sell it!
Hmmm, 1973 I think.
Larry
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"Fessy" S/D 12, 8/6 Hilton Pedal, Sessions 400 Ltd. Home Grown E/F Rack
"ROCKIN COUNTRY"
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Terry Bethel
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Hollister, Missouri (deceased)
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 9:32 pm
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I had a 4 neck Fender that Shot Jackson put two pedals on. It changed the E9th to a A6th, two strings on one pedal and three on the other, no chromatics of course, It was 1955. Then came the Fender 1000 about 4 years later.
I wish I could find that Fender Pro amp I had back then. One tone control and two volumes, what a great tone for that era.
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 9:49 pm
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Single-10 Marlen 3&3> Red Wine colored all Wood.
Bought it from Herb Remington in 1981.
Ricky
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 9:56 pm
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Here we go again, but; I'll play it safe by saying it was ‘one of the first six’ Sho-Buds built under the Sho-Bud name in 1957! A D–8 with 5-Pedals. I won't claim that it was #3, even though that is what Shot told me! It really isn't important anyway! But, you can see what it looked like in ’62; about 2-yrs. after I had it converted to a D-9 with 6 pedals!
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“Big John”
a.k.a. {Keoni Nui}
Current Equipment
[This message was edited by John Bechtel on 17 April 2006 at 10:58 PM.] [This message was edited by John Bechtel on 17 April 2006 at 11:06 PM.] |
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A. J. Schobert
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 11:31 pm
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| Mine was an old sho-bud s10 with 3 and 4 on a double body I love the tone but don't care for the tuning problems, I still have it. |
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Larry Robbins
From:
Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 12:20 am
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A red GFI S-10. Light weight and made very well. Wish I had kept it! 
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SHO~BUDS,FENDER AMPS& GUITARS, TUT TAYLOR RESO'S
"What a long, strange trip it's been"
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Larry Clark
From:
Herndon, VA.
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 1:18 am
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| Emmons Black Rock, bought it new around 75-76? |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 2:35 am
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| maple body maverick 3+1 |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 3:30 am
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| Mine was a BMI with 3 pedals and 4 levers. It was black in color and it was in April 1979. |
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Russ Tkac
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 3:36 am
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| My first was a Maverick with 10 strings and one knee. Now I mostly play a Fender 400 with 8 strings and no knees. I'm going backwards! |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 3:43 am
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A D8 Fender String Master.
Oops.First pedal steel was a Fender 1000.Sorry i read it wrong first time.Tracy[This message was edited by Tracy Sheehan on 18 April 2006 at 04:46 AM.] |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 3:55 am
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Mine was a ShoBud 'Baldwin' Crossover model D-10, the crossover part had broken, probably long before I bought it. It was hooked up with 3 of the pedals on E9th [ABC] and the one lever lowered both E's to Eb. The other 3 pedals were standard pedal 5, 6 & 7 of the C6th & the lever lowered the 3rd string C to B. The case was made of some kind of souped up cardboard & was not very good. the endplates were black & the neck was all wood, no metal block around the pickup. Kind of wish I had it back!!
Ernie Pollock  http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm
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Randy Beavers
From:
Lebanon,TN 37090
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 4:03 am
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Mine was a Pedalmaster built by Leroy Prine in Ft. Smith Arkansas. It was a double 9 string with 6 floor pedals.
I wonder what that guitar weighed. I never could pick it up. |
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Mark Edwards
From:
Weatherford,Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 4:25 am
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Zane Beck S-10, 2 knee levers 3 pedals. It was red (plastic cover over the entire top of guitar). I wanted to play so bad, I traded a 425.00 hat for that guitar, didn't have the cash to buy one at that time.
After I had for about 2 months, I ripped off the red plastic, and had it shot with a high gloss black laquer, turned out really nice. Then I hit a good lick at work, and was able to upgrade to my current GFI D-10, Birdseye Maple, trimmed in powdercoat Royal Blue. |
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 4:44 am
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Jody my very first pedal guitar was a 8 x 2 Peppi Jo, made by Peppi Jo Peeler over around Knoxville Tn. back in the 60's.
I played it 11 months and never did get it in tune. hee hee
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Fred Justice,
Fred's Music www.fredjusticemusic.com
Rains Steel Guitars
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 4:49 am
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| MSA Sidekick, ordered sight unseen through a music store in Lethbridge, Alberta. |
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Dale Bessant
From:
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 4:50 am
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| A Maverick as well......got me hooked..... |
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 5:01 am
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A Fender student model with 10 strings and 1 knee. It was a Maverick dressed up in black tolex and a Fender amp logo. Awful instrument.
Now, like Russ, I play a 400; but with 8 pedals and 2 knees. An abbreviated universal setup - very versatile and fantastic tone. |
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 5:09 am
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My first was a Pedalmaster built by LeRoy Prine in Fort Smith, AR. originally a D9 later changed to a D10. I lived one block from LeRoy and helped him build the early Pedalmasters. Then came the BMI built by Zane Beck.
Jerry |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 5:18 am
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MSA Red Baron.
I almost quit pedal steel forever after a day with it. |
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billy tam R.I.P.
From:
baton rouge, louisiana
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 5:39 am
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Mine was a Fender 800(2 - 8 string necks?) I paid $150 for it, don't remember how many pedals and knees as I soon sold it and bought a D-10 Sho-Bud Professional with 8 & 4.
Billy |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 5:50 am
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| Mine was a Sho-Bud Maverick that I bought at Manny's in NYC in about 1970,it did'nt have roller nuts...I broke strings every five minutes.Then I got a Sho-Bud 6139 3+2 .That guitar was great. |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 6:17 am
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| MSA S-10. Got it home, sat down to it with Winnie's book, and realized I was about to climb Mount Everest. The most un-intuitive thing I had ever encountered... [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 18 April 2006 at 07:21 AM.] |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 18 Apr 2006 6:37 am
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| sho-bud maverick s-10 3+1 got it from great player mr t.c furlong |
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