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Jack Hanson


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San Luis Valley, USA
Post  Posted 27 Aug 2022 9:01 am    
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1) Why did the factory cock the LKL at an angle?

2) Are there any other manufacturers who did (or still do) assemble their instruments as such?
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Johnie King


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Tennessee, USA
Post  Posted 27 Aug 2022 9:12 am    
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That’s a easy question ::: for comfort.

BMI steels are cocked also.

Can you imagine Buddy Emmons , Jimmy Day
Loyd, Curly Chalker , just too name a few.

I can’t imagine how Shot, David An Harry Jackson kept there sanity with all the good bad an ugly ideas they were ask too do.

I guess Shot an Buddy came too a crossroad on Buddy Emmons Ideas.
Can you imagine if Buddy an shot had Pursued the same goals building steels.
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Richard Sinkler


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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
Post  Posted 27 Aug 2022 2:11 pm    
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My thought is mainly because your leg swings at an arc towards the left rear corner of the guitar. This way you hit the lever straight on. I wish they could have done this with the pot metal Super Pro. I broke 3 LKL knee lever brackets, and I believe it was from hitting that lever at an angle. None of the other levers that got activated pretty much straight on ever broke for me.
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Ron Pruter

 

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Arizona, USA
Post  Posted 27 Aug 2022 7:45 pm    
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What Richard said. Ergonomically correct.
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