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Kevin Raymer


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Chalybeate, Kentucky, USA
Post  Posted 24 Apr 2016 12:17 pm    
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Was looking at an early 70es Carvin catalog.

I see the used to make pedal steels.

Never seen one here on the forum.

Anybody got one ??

Do you play it still ??

Just curious.
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Earnest Bovine


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Post  Posted 24 Apr 2016 12:33 pm    
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my first steel guitar was a Carvin. It was like a Fender underneath (cables & pulleys).
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Lane Gray


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Topeka, KS
Post  Posted 24 Apr 2016 12:33 pm    
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I thought I'd read that they had an arrangement with Dekley, that Carvin guitars were Dekleys with different badges.
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Kevin Raymer


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Post  Posted 24 Apr 2016 4:03 pm    
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Yea, Earnest, the pictures in the catalog I was viewing showed cables in the undercarriage..

We're Deckleys that way ??
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Gary Walker

 

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Morro Bay, CA
Post  Posted 24 Apr 2016 5:32 pm    
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I remember the Carvin catalog showing a pedal steel and the changers looked similar to the ones Chuck Wright was building at the time. Chuck built a D-10 for me in 1963 when he was living near Red Bluff, CA and the changers looked the same as Carvin.
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David Higginbotham

 

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Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
Post  Posted 24 Apr 2016 5:44 pm    
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My first steel was a Carvin and exactly as Ernest described.
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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 28 Apr 2016 5:39 am    
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I've only seen two Carvin pedal steels in my over 50 years of playing, and neither looked anything like a Deckley (or any other modern steel, for that matter). The changer was somewhat similar to the Wright, but they had thick wood and an aluminum wraparound frame like a Fender. Both were cable-operated, one had wide pedals, and one had narrow pedals. I didn't play either one.
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
Post  Posted 28 Apr 2016 10:44 am    
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Lane Gray wrote:
I thought I'd read that they had an arrangement with Dekley, that Carvin guitars were Dekleys with different badges.

I think you're confused, Lane. Carvin stopped selling steel guitars a decade or more before Dekley started.
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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 28 Apr 2016 11:16 am    
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Not the first time I've had thethe wrong people doing the right thing.
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Larry Phleger

 

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Post  Posted 28 Apr 2016 1:21 pm    
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If I remember correctly, Carvin sold the changers and pickups separately for those who wanted to build their own guitars. They were available in either 8 or 10 string configurations. I purchased 2 of their 10 string pickups around 1971, and still have one of them on a lap steel I built some time ago.
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Michael Lee Allen

 

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Post  Posted 28 Apr 2016 3:09 pm    
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