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Topic: Paul Redmond On-Trak S12 Keyless |
Sam Weisenberg
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Philadelphia
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Johnie King
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2019 5:03 pm |
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| Oh double wow!! Beautiful steel. |
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 23 Sep 2019 7:46 am
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| Holy Moly...these are rare and fantastic guitars...can't believe there's 2 for sale here on the forum. Paul's work is awesome and second to none! |
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Sam Weisenberg
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Philadelphia
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Posted 23 Sep 2019 9:50 am
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Yeah, I did not see Susan's up there before I posted. I have never seen another On-Trak for sale.
Ross, I certainly see some of his concepts in the new Sierra, which you've done a beautiful job with. |
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Ryan Stigmon
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2019 2:43 pm
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| Pm’d you Sam! |
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Sam Weisenberg
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Philadelphia
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Posted 28 Sep 2019 12:00 pm More photos
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Closeups of the tuner and undercarriage. Both the changer body and the tuning comb are integrally cast with the endplates and then machined.
Last edited by Sam Weisenberg on 30 Sep 2024 8:28 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Sam Weisenberg
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Philadelphia
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Posted 30 Sep 2024 7:27 am
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Shortly after this post in 2019, one of the potential buyers advised and convinced me to keep this. I am grateful to him for that, as it has been a wonderful instrument and I do not imagine selling it in the future.
I am leaving this post up because there are not many photos of Paul's work, so I hope it is a useful reference.
I do not have experience with other pull-release guitars, but for the curious, my experience with this one:
-It is not difficult to work on
-It can be set up with double lowers (though I no longer have this)
-The tuning is extremely stable. As in, the only time I touch the open or changer tuning is when the strings need to be changed anyway. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 30 Sep 2024 8:22 am
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Moved to Pedal Steel at Sam's request. This instrument is not currently available for sale.
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Sam Weisenberg
From:
Philadelphia
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Posted 30 Sep 2024 8:27 am
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I remembered this post after reading about Toshiyuki Shoji's new guitars, which have much of what attracted me to Paul Redmond's On-Trak guitar: All aluminum frame, compact size, elegant keyless mechanism, light weight, simple and classy dots, beautiful machining.
One reflection on this guitar that I appreciate and would like to see from the Shoji: Parallel strings. I find them to make more sense mechanically, look better, and, most importantly to me, make 2-note slants on adjacent strings toward the nut end easier to play. It also seems simpler to design and manufacture. Others have included (as I understand it) Gene Fields's PS-210 and the Blanton.
Obviously, tapered strings can't be that much of an advantage, as roughly all steel players have played tapered instruments, and I'm sure they'd have played just as great or lousily on parallel strings. Maybe it's useful to be on record saying "I have this, like it better than tapered strings, and experience no downside to it" as opposed to theoretically arguing that it might be better. |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 30 Sep 2024 8:59 am
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Apparently the topic didn't move to Pedal Steel, so I moved it.
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| One reflection on this guitar that I appreciate and would like to see from the Shoji: Parallel strings. I find them to make more sense mechanically, look better, and, most importantly to me, make 2-note slants on adjacent strings toward the nut end easier to play. ... Maybe it's useful to be on record saying "I have this, like it better than tapered strings, and experience no downside to it" as opposed to theoretically arguing that it might be better. |
Interesting perspective. From a theoretical point of view, I agree with you about parallel strings on a steel guitar. Narrower string spacing near the nut doesn't really make sense to me. I understand the comfort aspect for fingering chords down the neck for guitar - although even for guitar, I personally tend to prefer wider string spacing at the nut.
But on a steel, wider fret spacing near the nut already makes the slanting angle more extreme than further up the neck, and narrower string spacing exacerbates that. With 10 and 12-string pedal steels, overall string spacing is already narrower than a typical lap/console steel. So it makes even more sense why many pedal steel players seem not to even think about slanting the bar. |
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Anthony Campbell
From:
Northwest Indiana, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2024 4:21 pm
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Wow
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