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Topic: Rare Triple Neck Miller Pedal Steel on eBay |
Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 3 Aug 2006 6:26 pm |
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It's a beast, and it might need some work, but it sure is rare. click. It’s not my auction. Note that the seller is newly registered with eBay and has "0" feedback (no record of transactions).
[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 03 August 2006 at 07:40 PM.] |
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Neil Harms
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Ionia, Missouri, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 4:28 am
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Interesting piece. Anyone know anything about these? I'm really unfamiliar with this brand. When were they made? How do they sound? Feel? N.
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76 Sho-Bud LDG, 52 Fender Custom Triple, Fender Vibrasonic "Custom", (plus all that other stuff....) |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 4:58 am
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They were made in Illinois by Roger Miller ( not the singer ), most of them in the 60's. Judging by the two old catalogs I have, this is probably a early/mid 60's. Mechanically lot like the early Sho Buds and the woodwork was really fancy and beautiful on lot of them. Triple necks are offered in those catalogs but not pictured, this one is really nice looking, if I had the cash I'd snipe it ( have a thing for triplenecks  ). |
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Neil Harms
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Ionia, Missouri, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 7:19 am
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| Thanks for the info. I have a thing for triple necks too. It's an illness. I contacted the seller for info. Just asked if it was "all there" and if the pickups/electronics worked. Seller said it's all there. Never plugged it to an amp so don't know if it works. Maybe it's just me but it seems odd to own a steel for 20 years and never have plugged it in. Guess the smart thing would be to assume the pickups don't work and be surprised if they do. Wonder what that puppy weighs?? N. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 7:41 am
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| Wonder what that puppy weighs?? |
Well, I think that tells us (in a round-about way) you're not a young 'un anymore!  |
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Ron !
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Paul Redmond
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 6:24 pm
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I took a little S10 in on trade last summer. The former owner had HACKSAWED off two of the four pedals!!! He left the shanks on the pedal rack as spacers. The end of the way-too-thick, way-too-heavy cast pedal rack had been snapped off and a stub of aluminum somethingorother had been welded on in its place. Save for one oddball tuning key that was backwards and a little 'gator skin in the finish, the poor little thing was in good mechanical shape. I installed an early George L's 12-5 w/switch on it, made a new 1" x 2" x 1/8"wall pedal rack, replaced the Mickey Mouse ear tuners with Sperzel low-profiles, remounted the 2 remaining pedals, and set them and the 3 KL's up. Added a LKV to raise #4 to F#, put new strings on it and played a gig with it. It's got a beautiful walnut top w/birdseye aprons and REAL wood inlays. It's biggest problem is that the keyhead only has 3 screws holding it down. . .squirms all over the place. I'll add 4 more and go ahead and refinish the beautiful cabinet with satin urethane. It was heavy with the old clunky rack on it, but not any more. The tone is unbelievable. . .it has a hollow aluminum neck. It was made in Chillicothe IL in 1973. Not a great guitar, but still a fun little, light-weight piece of history to toy around with. Presently have an all-walnut D10 in the shop for partial resto work and setup. Maybe some pics of these 2 side-by-side when the D10 is complete.
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2006 9:40 am
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Here's my comments from the other thread:
My first steel was a Miller S-10. I had it for a few month's and the club burnt. Broken nose kinda deal. The guitar was smoke-damaged, so I took it all apart , and cleaned, polished, and re-finished everything. Learned all about it, and it still wouldn't stay, or play, in-tune!
Since I'd lost everything else in the fire, I was out of work, and couldn't make the payments. I was almost happy when the repo man showed up!
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Paul Redmond
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2006 3:30 pm
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| Just finished adding more screws to the keyhead of my little S10. Cut the detuning in half!! But I put a dial indicator on top of the roller housing and there is the culprit!! It's springing like a diving board every time I hit the splits. It's not supposed to even move. Will add a "tongue" to the casting to extend under the hollow neck, fly-cut it flat, add screws to it, then reassemble. Sure would like to solve all those nasty detuning problems on Miller's for y'all. |
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