As our birthday boy might put it: Three necks, six pickups, 24 strings, and one @#$%&.

HOOORRRRAAAAY!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!

Hope to see some video of you playing it sometime.

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Max'sKansasCity
HOOORRRRAAAAY!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!

Hope to see some video of you playing it sometime.

Thanks. A very difficult instrument, Max. I tried pedal steel years ago and gave up. This allows you to have three different tunings on different necks, so you can be ready for anything.

Nice!

Oh yeah! Nice score that!

Beautiful, congrats. I don't know much about steel guitars,is the idea that each neck is in a different tuning?

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Beautiful, congrats. I don't know much about steel guitars,is the idea that each neck is in a different tuning?

Yes, before someone thought to put pedals on 'em the only way to play in different tunings for different keys and styles was to have different necks. there was also a four-neck version!

Beautiful!!!

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Sweet rig...what're you planning to play it through?
Now you can bust one of the three necks off it and build your own guitsteel...

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Sweet rig...what're you planning to play it through?
Now you can bust one of the three necks off it and build your own guitsteel...

Munich, I'm running it through a Magnatone Imperial M13.

So what tunings? An E9 a C6 (probably) and what else?
Oh, man, run it through a Leslie (or an effect like that) to get some great sounds.



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Come on Tele, do something like this for us... we wanna see/hear



OTHERWISE>>>> I think we should suddenly crash Tele's house someday, drink a lil too much wear old fashioned baseball shirts, play around on ALL of his cool instruments Make a LOT of noise, bother his neighbors and howl at the moon.

hmmm or maybe we should drink a lil too much as step 0 and 1 and as step 5 and as steps 8 9 10

What a nice instrument. Congrats Tele

Very Very nice

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Max'sKansasCity
Come on Tele, do something like this for us... we wanna see/hear



OTHERWISE>>>> I think we should suddenly crash Tele's house someday, drink a lil too much wear old fashioned baseball shirts, play around on ALL of his cool instruments Make a LOT of noise, bother his neighbors and howl at the moon.

hmmm or maybe we should drink a lil too much as step 0 and 1 and as step 5 and as steps 8 9 10

Welk is just so creepy though. Merrill is amazing. The stuff with the tone knob. But that struck me almost as a bit of flash. The subtle switches in technique are really mind-blowing.

Congrats, Tele - a beauty!

What a cracker! I'm envious. Bought an old Magnatone lap steel a few years back and loved it, but just didn't have time to learn it properly (ditto my mandolin). Both on back burner until I get more time to devote to them.

Looks like a lovely steel and - hey - it's a Fender too!

Are you sure you haven't been conned ?

I think somebody sold you an industrial hard boiled egg slicer !



[Let us know how you get in with it. When I tried a lap steel it took me a while to get used to using a bar, and the right one seemed to make all the difference ]

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Are you sure you haven't been conned ?

I think somebody sold you an industrial hard boiled egg slicer !



[Let us know how you get in with it. When I tried a lap steel it took me a while to get used to using a bar, and the right one seemed to make all the difference ]

The pegs will adjust how thick the egg slices will be?

Cool

that is so awesome . goldrings on ya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice Tele71. Have a lot of fun with it.
Rock and roll,
Mops

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Max'sKansasCity
Come on Tele, do something like this for us... we wanna see/hear



OTHERWISE>>>> I think we should suddenly crash Tele's house someday, drink a lil too much wear old fashioned baseball shirts, play around on ALL of his cool instruments Make a LOT of noise, bother his neighbors and howl at the moon.

hmmm or maybe we should drink a lil too much as step 0 and 1 and as step 5 and as steps 8 9 10

You're all welcome any time!

Buddy was a great player.

Anyone with suggestions for tuning the three necks, I'd love to hear it. I am thinking C6 and two open tunings (E and G), but with the "extra" two strings, should be a straight open tuning, or a 9th or 7th? Remember, no pedals, so maybe E9 would not be good.

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Anyone with suggestions for tuning the three necks, I'd love to hear it. I am thinking C6 and two open tunings (E and G), but with the "extra" two strings, should be a straight open tuning, or a 9th or 7th? Remember, no pedals, so maybe E9 would not be good.

I was curious exactly what you had going on there Tele, so I looked at a bunch of Youtube videos, there was info there about the set up, more than I expected, maybe worth checking out, although you probably already have.

You could ask these guys. It's an interesting forum.
I belive Red Rhodes (one of the greatest) tuned to an E-flat 13th (or so I'm told).

[bb.steelguitarforum.com]

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tomk
You could ask these guys. It's an interesting forum.
I belive Red Rhodes (one of the greatest) tuned to an E-flat 13th (or so I'm told).

[bb.steelguitarforum.com]

Wasn't Red a pedal player though? A whole different ballgame as far as tunings go.

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tomk
You could ask these guys. It's an interesting forum.
I belive Red Rhodes (one of the greatest) tuned to an E-flat 13th (or so I'm told).

[bb.steelguitarforum.com]

Wasn't Red a pedal player though? A whole different ballgame as far as tunings go.

Mostly known as a pedal player, but he played lap and dobro as well.



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NICE!!! I am a Fender guy like you.

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As our birthday boy might put it: Three necks, six pickups, 24 strings, and one @#$%&.

My, my, my what a beauty!