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CNC machining and delrin bushings with interchangeable parts and good solid slab maple cabinets give these guitars excellent tuning stability and a long playing life. A drop of lube(preferably sewing machine oil)once in a while and you have a lifetime instrument! They aren’t easy to play, but they sound glorious! Just like David Letterman said “it’s like flying a helicopter”
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Took a few more pictures.
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Interesting Tuning I use
I like using really light gauge strings for easier playability on the Fender Pedal Steel Guitar so that I don't need to use as much force to activate those Pedals & Knee Levers. The string set I'm using is a Prototype D'addario (Octave4Plus copy) Ultra-Light Gauge Nickel Plated Steel Wound Pedal Steel String set w/ All Wound Strings (the highest string is a .005w). The tuning I use on the Fender Pedal Steel Guitar is a Minor Third above the Popular Nashville E9 Tuning, it's called "Nashville G9 Terz Tuning".
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congrats on your new steel. For twenty years I thought about purchasing a steel and never did because I knew it will require a lot of work and time spent. I already play a number of stringed instruments, and yes, they need to get played and practiced. Finally, two months a go I bought my first pedal steel - and I love it, though it's a beast. I practiced nearly every day and I never regret so far. My lap steel, Dobro and Weissenborn experience help. Just a magical instrument !
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Figured it out
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Thanks ! I have to try this !
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Congrats! Looks like a lot of fun as long as your brain copes with 10 strings. Last year I got both 6 and 8 string Gold Tone square neck resonator guitars and found the 8-string much more difficult to play. I am still playing the 6-string, but the 8-string spends most of its time in my closet.
My 6-string lap steel with two Certano benders is as close as I will ever get to a lap steel. If I was 30 or 40 years younger your post would have triggered PSGAS and I would be looking for the "Buy Now" button. Have Fun!
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I bought a vintage Emmons GS10 ten years ago. This is a great sounding push-pull, but it’s old and cranky and noisy and difficult to play. I should have bought a Stage One, which was an option, but, no, I had to have push-pull. Not the first time I’ve screwed myself with a concept.
Anyway, I made good progress, but without a band to play in, the practice time got invested in other things and the steel finally got put away. They are difficult as sin to play. Hands, knees, feet, parallax. I’ll get back to it some day. They are inversion machines. Good luck and have fun
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