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Charles Kurck
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Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 7:25 am |
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If you can, please help with information to correct, update, and fill in blanks for the chart below.
Last edited by Charles Kurck on 5 Nov 2020 8:49 am; edited 6 times in total |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 7:28 am
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| Although limited production, Weenik steels, Martin ("Mike") Weenik in Florida builds pedal steels. He's probably built around 15 in the last 8 or 10 years. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 12:48 pm
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| We built and shipped at least 30 pro guitars a month for the 3+ years I was at Dekley, and another 50 student guitars a month for a year or two. Rough guess would be 2-3,000 guitars total, maybe more. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 5:50 pm
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Jackson is still going strong and they still build great steels! My steel was built in 2010. David and Harry Jackson, along with David's daughter Dawn Jackson started building steels again in 2005 after taking a break from building steels after Sho-Bud closed
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Ron Pruter
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 7:12 pm
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Jim,
That would be the Helium 6000.
Fred Justice has made 100+ also
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 9:20 pm
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| Endicott. I played Leo LeBlanc's once, years ago. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 9:37 pm
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| ETS? |
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steve takacs
From:
beijing, china via pittsburgh (deceased)
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Posted 24 Feb 2015 11:05 pm Scotty SGI steel??
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| Jim, I think Scotty sold the very light S-10 and D10- SGI guitar. steve t |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 12:07 am
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Ernie Ball made a couple models of pedalsteels.
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Dan Beller-McKenna
From:
Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 2:55 am
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| Blanton,Framus. Must be others too. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 3:58 am
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| I'm hoping Lone Star will be added to the list.... |
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Jeff Garden
From:
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 4:26 am
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| Jim Flynn built steels under the Flynn name |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 5:05 am
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| Thanks, Jeff. |
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Doug Rolfe
From:
Indianapolis, IN
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 5:28 am
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| Wasn't the Flynn started by Harold Flynn? I don't know, maybe my memory is wrong. |
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Jeff Garden
From:
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 5:31 am
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Bill Ray (who has since passed on) from Jacksonville(?) FL built the Rayline pedal steel.
**right you are Doug (nothing wrong with YOUR memory). Upon further review, I have my Flynn's mixed up...it was Harold that made the Flynn steels. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Norbert Dengler
From:
germany
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 6:19 am
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Cougar.
CW (built by Carson Wells)
p.s. by the way, you might want to change the location for Promat from Yugoslavia (which no longer exists) to Serbia.
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www.RonstadtRevue.com
www.BeatsWalkin.com
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Jeff Garden
From:
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 6:29 am
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Marco Schouten
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 6:33 am
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RayLine or Ray Line.
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JCH SD-10 with BL XR-16 pickup, Sho-Bud Volume Pedal, Evidence Audio Lyric HG cables, Quilter Steelaire combo |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 9:01 am
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| The Nashville LTD, if I remember correctly was Gary Rittenberry. I remember trying the demo they had at St Louis, one year. |
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Craig Baker
From:
Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Feb 2015 9:24 am
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George Sell, who recently passed, built many GES steel guitars back in the 60s and 70s in the Philadelphia area.
The late Big John Bechtel made several "Big John Specials" in the late 60s.
Craig
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