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 Topic: Maverick question. |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 10 Views: 1890 |
 Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Feb 2024 5:16 pm Subject: Maverick question. |
| [quote="Bob Carlucci"
Looks like a repurposed drum brake shoe hold down spring.. As long as it works....[/quote Being a pretty good hand with drum brakes, I had the exact same thought. ... |
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| Topic: What steel does this rod come from? |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 9 Views: 849 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 17 Dec 2023 2:46 pm Subject: What steel does this rod come from? |
| Looks like a neutron combobulator linkage from a Neptunian XHSR209845 flying saucer. 👽🛸
Just as I suspected. 
Mitch |
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| Topic: Buddy Emmons - How about it! |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 19 Views: 7784 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 14 Dec 2023 3:25 pm Subject: Buddy Emmons - How about it! |
| Thank you Gary. I enjoyed it.
Mitch |
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| Topic: Buddy Emmons - How about it! |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 19 Views: 7784 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 14 Dec 2023 4:49 am Subject: Buddy Emmons - How about it! |
| How can we hear this recording?
Mitch |
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| Topic: No comment (Joshua Ray Walker on Jimmy Fallon) |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 11 Views: 2919 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 8 Dec 2023 7:28 pm Subject: No comment (Joshua Ray Walker on Jimmy Fallon) |
| I don’t think you could call it country, but it still works for many listeners.
At least they’re working, and doing the “big show”, much as I did in my younger daze. It doesn't wor ... |
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| Topic: Tattoo |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 15 Views: 4671 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 6 Dec 2023 3:29 pm Subject: Tattoo |
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I've made more mistakes in life than I can even remember but none have left an embarrassing and eternal scar; for this, I'm thankful. That's a LOT to be thankful for.
Mitch |
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| Topic: Cowboy Loafers for Pedal Steel Players.. |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 10 Views: 6009 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 25 Nov 2023 7:45 pm Subject: Cowboy Loafers for Pedal Steel Players.. |
| If I get buried in a pair of those, I'm going to come back and haunt the ones responsible for it.
Mitch |
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| Topic: Lubrication routines? |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 27 Views: 11267 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 22 Nov 2023 7:47 pm Subject: Lubrication routines? |
| I oil my steel, basically all moving parts, about once a year. I play a Zum, so I ask Bruce Zumsteg a similar question. He said that players have brought him steels that had been gigged hard on the ro ... | |
| Topic: A travel-stop to protect your volume pedal potentiometer |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 2 Views: 1054 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 22 Nov 2023 7:30 pm Subject: A travel-stop to protect your volume pedal potentiometer |
| Dave,
Your travel-stop plate is a great idea, and your design is some really good thinking. You will probably save a lot of steel players, as well as six-stringers, quite a few dollars. Thank you fo ... |
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| Topic: Upper Register Clarity |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 19 Views: 2930 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Nov 2023 4:17 pm Subject: Upper Register Clarity |
| I don't think pickups or cables or eq settings have anything to do with it. Find a guy who plays well to play your guitar and I'll bet it sounds great up there.
It's gonna be in your picking and b ... |
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| Topic: What Producers Say |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 12 Views: 4419 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 15 Nov 2023 3:44 pm Subject: What Producers Say |
| Nothing last forever. It's a simple matter of waiting your turn.
Mitch |
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| Topic: Live at Bell Cove DVD |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 8 Views: 3212 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 31 Oct 2023 3:35 am Subject: Live at Bell Cove DVD |
| It's an inspiration to me
Me too, Roger. I've talked with Hall Rugg's daughter through private text messaging and should be getting my copies in a few days. I'm really looking forward to watching ... |
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| Topic: LeGrande with no serial number? |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 10 Views: 3813 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 16 Oct 2023 8:03 pm Subject: LeGrande with no serial number? |
| Hey Andrew!
How does it play and sound? Could you post some pictures? I have seen Emmons SD10's come from the factory with a D10 endplate on the changer end. I guess it was all that they had on hand ... |
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| Topic: Live at Bell Cove DVD |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 8 Views: 3212 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 14 Oct 2023 7:22 pm Subject: Live at Bell Cove DVD |
| Thank you, Peter!
Mitch |
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| Topic: Live at Bell Cove DVD |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 8 Views: 3212 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 13 Oct 2023 8:52 am Subject: Live at Bell Cove DVD |
| Hey everybody!
Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of Hal Rugg and Buddy Emmons Live at Bell Cove on a DVD? Thank you. Mitch |
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| Topic: Fuzzy has a new steel available - the Robostar! |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 61 Views: 76076 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 10 Oct 2023 9:20 pm Subject: Fuzzy has a new steel available - the Robostar! |
| Steve Sanford is now the go to guy for Excel matters. He helped me a lot with m recent ExStar purchase and is a standup guy.
Yes he is. I've known Steve for about thirty years. I have played many ... |
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| Topic: Paul Franklin Sr turns 90 on 10/24/23.. |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 80 Views: 49159 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 10 Oct 2023 8:33 pm Subject: Paul Franklin Sr turns 90 on 10/24/23.. |
| Happy Birthday MR. Franklin! It would be such a great honor for me to get to meet you sir, but a least I got the next best thing. I got to meet your son, and he autographed my steel guitar seat. Thank ... | |
| Topic: A Tribute to a Craftsman |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 26 Views: 5361 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 30 Jul 2023 6:08 pm Subject: A Tribute to a Craftsman |
| It is a joy to work on something that was built by a craftsman.
That statement makes me think of my Zum. I've never seen a Bowman steel but would sure like to. Mr. Sam, Would you happen to have ... |
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| Topic: How hot is too hot to play? |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 39 Views: 6014 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 14 Jul 2023 2:34 pm Subject: How hot is too hot to play? |
| Here in south Mississippi, 70 percent of the time it's either hot, raining, very humid, or all three. The weather here is very unpredictable. I don't like backing out at the last minute, but I don't l ... | |
| Topic: Say it ain’t so. |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 15 Views: 3439 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 30 May 2023 5:36 pm Subject: Say it ain’t so. |
| The remainder of all the clubs had all hard rock and distortion guitar. But listen to country radio today-same stuff!
Exactly. That's why it's being played at Tootsie's and the other clubs on Bro ... |
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| Topic: New Lloyd Green Song Is Out Now.... Just A Click Away |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 28 Views: 4544 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 30 May 2023 5:25 pm Subject: New Lloyd Green Song Is Out Now.... Just A Click Away |
| Perfect touch and tone. He is a direct link to a time and era when the steel guitar was a mainstream instrument. He is a living legend among steel players. There will never be another Lloyd Green.
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| Topic: 1970 Emmons D10 P/P "farting" sound |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 8 Views: 1189 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 6 May 2023 9:29 pm Subject: 1970 Emmons D10 P/P "farting" sound |
| My Nashville 400 was doing the same thing and I took it to Peavey to get it repaired. They said that it had a dirty voice coil. They fixed the problem and now it runs like new.
Mitch |
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| Topic: Just a Buyers/Sellers Heads-Up!! |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 34 Views: 7364 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Steel Guitars Posted: 3 May 2023 4:30 pm Subject: Re: Daymon |
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Moral of story, if it’s too good to be true, it’s too good to be true! Don’t buy a guitar online without talking to seller first, and if seller doesn’t know who Lloyd Green is, he’s prob ... |
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| Topic: Difficulty of pedal steel vs other instruments. |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 96 Views: 26153 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 24 Apr 2023 4:47 pm Subject: Difficulty of pedal steel vs other instruments. |
| For me, learning to play the swinette was much more difficult than learning to play a pedal steel guitar.
Jack, What is the swinette?  Please tell us! 
Mitch |
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| Topic: What Steel Is This ? |
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| Mitch Ellis Replies: 15 Views: 1928 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Apr 2023 7:02 am Subject: What Steel Is This ? |
| I don't think it's a homemade steel although I don't know what it is.
Mitch |
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