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Topic: Home Built PSG in Australia |
Henry Matthews
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Posted 27 Jun 2012 5:23 am |
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I'm going to agree with Lane and say WOW, this may set a new standard for steel guitars. Wise choice on the study material. 
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D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
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Martin Weenick
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Lecanto, FL, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2012 11:50 am Fingers
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I wonder why only two raises ??? Beautiful guitar, I'd like to see the case it fits in.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 27 Jun 2012 3:07 pm
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The plexiglass on the front legs do not appear to be part of the sheet music holder in the later pics. The holder is attached to bolts on the top of the guitar.
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Alex Robson
From:
Victoria, Australia
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Posted 27 Jun 2012 9:53 pm
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Hello everyone
My name is Alex Robson a retired Engineer I'm 76 years old from Sunbury Australia
Designer/builder of this pedal steel guitar I would just like to say thanks to Mr Doug Beaumier for posting my guitar on your forum and also thanking you for showing an interest. This may seem odd but I have never seen a pedal steel guitar in the real only photo's of them
The polycarbonate sheet on the legs is not there for anything other than show but's incomplete as this stage
There is 25 Blue and Green LED'S in circuit to light up the fret board powered by 12VDC transformer plugs in near the pickup jack
Changer mechanism two raise and two lower is ok for me with that design Thank you all I'm quite moved by your interest Alex |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 28 Jun 2012 3:50 am
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Thanks Alex. That is an awesome guitar.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Dennis Saydak
From:
Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 29 Jun 2012 4:27 pm
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WOW! I'm glad I read this thread. I've never seen anything like it. I don't think I'm going to sleep well tonight just thinking about this beauty. Luv the colour as well.
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Just when you think you're getting ahead in the rat race, the rats get faster. |
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Alex Robson
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Victoria, Australia
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Posted 29 Jun 2012 9:58 pm
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In answer to your post Doug if I had been lucky enough to see a pedal steel guitar I would never have built one (straight into the to hard basket) When you think about it and break it down into modules or sections then into individual parts it becomes easier to understand My old Boss would say never get to the stage where you cannot see the WOOD FOR THE TREES
With my drafting machine, pencils, paper, eraser (rubber) I think I used about Fifteen yards of paper lots of note pads for ideas and then to the drawing board
Martin
I would make two cases one for the stand legs and wheel assembly and the other for the guitar and pedal board and legs etc Only one allen key required for the pedal bar legs all the rest are the knobs you can see Quite simple really
just ask if see something else you wish to know more about I'm so grateful for interest thanks a million fellows
Alex |
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Ivan Posa
From:
Hamilton, New Zealand
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Posted 30 Jun 2012 9:30 pm
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| It is amazing quality machining but it does look like it would need a forklift to move it. |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 4 Jul 2012 7:36 pm
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| That is simply incredible and magnificent. Incredible in process, and magnificent in execution. Are there any sound samples? |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 11 Jul 2012 9:34 am
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More pics.
From Alex: "The Roller Nut setting device... just remove the dust guard and screw on the Roller Nut setting device. The power supply is 12VDC. Each string has it's own blue LED connected to a brass contact Using an allen key, raise each Roller. When the string touches the brass contact the LED will light up continue until all 10 are complete. You now have all the strings perfectly level for your tone bar. The body of the device is Black Acetal plastic."
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Alex Robson
From:
Victoria, Australia
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Posted 16 Jul 2012 4:20 pm
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Hello everyone
I would like to thank Mr Doug Beaumier for posting all my guitar photo's including the latest on the Roller nut setting device A job well done and Doug thank you again I would also like to thank everyone for your interest you have shown
Daniel thank you for your kind words Sound samples well have to be later (I have to learn how to play it first but it sounds great to me )
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 9:52 am
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| WHERE'S ED PACKARD???????? |
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smike
From:
oakland, ca
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 4:03 pm echoes of wow (wow wow wow wow!)
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alex -
you are a serious head case! 
what a fabulous, over-the-top, gorgeous guitar.
well done!
bruce |
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Larry Waisner
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 6:19 pm
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TRIPLE WOW !!!
What a beautiful instrument. Alex just one question Sir. How much does it weigh?
GOD Bless,
Larry- |
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Alex Robson
From:
Victoria, Australia
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 1:44 am
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Thank you fellows for your kind words and Bruce ( there is a few brain cells missing with this chap)or better still a few Currants short of a fruit cake Thank you Doug for posting the last lot of Photos for me
Larry The weight of PSG I dont know really for shore but I have just used my hill billy method I used the bathroom scales and weighed each end then added them together Each end weighed 14 Kgs that would be 28Kgs= about 61 pounds I just hope we have a brain in this forum to correct my method of weighing
Thanks everyone take care
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 3:17 am
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Alex
Because you virtually started with a blank canvas, you have come up with some excellent features on your guitar. You haven't tried to follow the herd with your design, and to be able to flip the guitar over in its frame to work on it is a stroke of lateral thinking.
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The easiest way to weigh your guitar is to weigh yourself, and then hold your guitar off the ground while standing on your scales. Just deduct your weight from the total and you are good to go. 
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Per Berner
From:
Skövde, Sweden
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 3:32 am
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This is so outside the box that noone remembers what the box looked like to begin with... fantastic design ideas and not a single financially motivated shortcut in sight.
The downside is, I bet this wouldn't get close to breaking even in a production version for $ 10,000 – which I would gladly pay, BTW.
We want to hear it! |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 8:22 am
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That's one hell of an instrument, Alex. It's a beaut.
Rotating the body certainly beats having to turn the thing over. Pedal steels seem to get heavier every year as I get older. I'm assuming you have to detach the pedal rods from the body before you rotate it.
I've seen non-pedal steels with rotating bodies, but that has always been so that you could have more than one neck, and flip the guitar to get a neck set up in a different tuning, rather than the incumbrance of a regular 4-neck model. I've never seen a pedal steel that rotates before. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 4:02 pm
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A couple of weeks ago I pulled my two Sho-Bud Crossovers out of storage and set them up. Lifting them upside down onto an armchair to connect up the pedals was exhausting.  |
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Michael Maddex
From:
Northern New Mexico, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 4:53 pm
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That's one hell of an instrument, Alex. It's a beaut.
Rotating the body certainly beats having to turn the thing over. Pedal steels seem to get heavier every year as I get older. I'm assuming you have to detach the pedal rods from the body before you rotate it. ... |
It is a beauty all right, Alan. Look closely at the photos: It looks like the Pedal Bar Assembly is separate from the front legs and that the pedals, rods, and all rotate to the top.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 8:23 am
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That explains everything.
You have to hand it to Alex. Without any diagrams of how a pedal steel mechanism works, he's invented his own, which probably works better. |
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