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Topic: Help Identify Mystery Steel (Farah Reel Steel ) |
Ray McCulloch
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Missouri, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 8:29 am |
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Hi yall. First post and I'm glad to be here! I've Been playing a Guyatone double 8 console for a couple years and want to get into a pedal steel. This one came up for sale locally but it is quite puzzling. If anybody can tell me what make or model this is I would be very grateful. The fretboard looks like a franklin, but the rest of it just raises questions.
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 10:17 am
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| That certainly looks like a home-built steel; hard to say what it sounds like or how well it performs. Could be decent (read: "playable"), or it could be crap. I would pass on it and try to get something a little more well-known. |
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Pete McAvity
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St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 11:58 am
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Has a Franklin fretboard, but don't look like anything Mr. F Sr. has been responsible for (from what I seen).
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Ray McCulloch
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 12:18 pm
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| The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 3:34 pm
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Trouble? Yes, probably. But I do like the little leather loop on the end of the case, likely put there to pull it out of the pickup-truck bed after it had slid forward.  |
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Lloyd Walsh
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San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 6:49 pm
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Looks Reel to me.. 
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Henry Matthews
From:
Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 27 Sep 2022 11:18 am
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| Brian McCulloch wrote: |
| The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought |
Believe me, people have done that and more, lol.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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Jon Zimmerman
From:
California, USA
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Posted 27 Sep 2022 6:46 pm Anomalies
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| Hard to judge what the changer is made of and the type of mechanism, & if stable enuf to hold tuning(s)..need underbelly views to verify. Could’ve been an employee’s crude ‘prototype’?..using avail ‘spares’ to equip it? Agreed..,that troubles are not ‘Farah’-head of you, Brian. IMO. |
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