What is the oldest PEDAL steel you have ever owned? Lap?

Michael Lee Allen · Post by **Michael Lee Allen** » 23 Aug 2007 9:48 am

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Larry Phleger · Post by **Larry Phleger** » 23 Aug 2007 11:14 am

1955 National T8 Console

R Crow · Post by **R Crow** » 23 Aug 2007 4:28 pm

Bobbe sold me Buddy's first steel. It's a 1923 Seymore Custom Lap 6.

That is a hand wound pickup at the end of the fretboard.

Rick

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 23 Aug 2007 4:33 pm

R Crow wrote:Bobbe sold me Buddy's first steel. It's a 1923 Seymore Custom Lap 6.

That is a hand wound pickup at the end of the fretboard.

Rick

My first wife could fly on that.

R Crow · Post by **R Crow** » 23 Aug 2007 4:43 pm

I'm hurt! You mean that's not Buddy's first guitar?

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 23 Aug 2007 4:55 pm

Maybe that's the guitar that Buddy recorded Witches brew with.

R Crow · Post by **R Crow** » 23 Aug 2007 4:57 pm

My price just doubled!

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 23 Aug 2007 5:14 pm

Now that you know the historical significance of that guitar, you could get a fortune for it on e-bay

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 23 Aug 2007 8:06 pm

I think a couple "Rickenbacher" lap steels predate my '49 Gibson Electraharp.

I've had six-strings and mandos from much earlier....late 1800's.

Eddie Cunningham · Post by **Eddie Cunningham** » 24 Aug 2007 5:51 pm

My first pedal steel I bought in July 1954 from Shot Jackson, a D-8 Fender Stringmaster that he installed his "push-rod in the tuner heads" pedals on the stand up steel !! I played it for about ten years and then cut it up for firewood !!! I thought it was useless by that time !! Stupid old fool !! Eddie "C" ( stupid old geezer )

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 24 Aug 2007 8:05 pm

My oldest ‘real’ PSG was my first new Sho-Bud in the fall of 1957. Before that, I did install one Jimmy Day pedal on my D–8 Fender Stringmaster in about ’53.

ed packard · Post by **ed packard** » 26 Aug 2007 9:01 am

My first PSG was the only (prototype) PSG that Vega corp of Boston made to take on the "harps" in the market place. They decided that the market was too small, and the cost was too high.

Marty Smith · Post by **Marty Smith** » 1 Jan 2009 10:17 am

1961 Sho Bud D8 I got from one of Shot's old Buddies in Chatanooga

1935 National Electric Hawaiian I no longer have

John Bauer · Post by **John Bauer** » 1 Jan 2009 10:32 am

BobbeSeymour wrote:Just like to know, what is the oldest steel guitar you own now and what is the oldest pedal guitar you have ever had.
Lets cover lap steels also, I think some of you guys have some great old guitars, tell us about them!

Bobbe

1954 Alkire Eharp with 10 strings and a E chromatic tuning.[/quote]

Ulric Utsi-Åhlin · Post by **Ulric Utsi-Åhlin** » 1 Jan 2009 10:42 am

I sold a late 40´s Hagström Lap Steel less than two
years ago ; I played it for some 20 years before
selling ; the purchaser was actually Karl-Erik
Hagström,son of the company´s founder Albin Hagström
; he bought it for the Hagström Musical Instrument
Museum ; it is very rare,but I don´t regret it ; I
felt like the guitar was coming "home",and it fetched
well over 10.000 Swedish Crowns.McUtsi

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 1 Jan 2009 11:02 am

My oldest lapsteel is a pre "august 10th, 1937" Rick bakelite 7 string.

My first pedal steel circa late '50's. Fender 400 with 6 pedals purchased new from a dealer in Jacksonville, Fl.

My newest PSG Purchased new in August of this year. Excel Superb S-12 universal with 8 and 9.

carl

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 1 Jan 2009 11:08 am

R Crow wrote:Bobbe sold me Buddy's first steel. It's a 1923 Seymore Custom Lap 6. ...

Wait a minute ! A 1923 Seymore ? Assuming Bobbe was only a teenager at the time he built it (1923), that would make Bobbe about a hundred years old now.

He looks very young for his age.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 1 Jan 2009 11:27 am

The oldest "steel" was probably the Style O sq.nk. Sold it. I still have a '35 M32 Dobro, and a 37 woodie Dobro. Both rnd. nks. The '37 is the best sounding reso I've ever heard. My oldest electric is a 1939(I think) Gibson Grande Console D-7. Oldest pedal guitar is my '59 Permanent. Then the '63 Fingertip. Then the '67 racker. Then the '74 S-10 Bud, which is a real looker! Gonna have to thin the herd one of these days!

Al Collinsworth · Post by **Al Collinsworth** » 1 Jan 2009 2:49 pm

Mike Randolph · Post by **Mike Randolph** » 1 Jan 2009 3:19 pm

EPIPHONE ELECTA 1939

Junior Knight · Post by **Junior Knight** » 1 Jan 2009 3:40 pm

I have a S-12 MSA that was built for Reese in 1966..Reese said this was the guitar that he thought he cut his 1st albums with.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 1 Jan 2009 4:00 pm

I have a 1756 violin. I guess I could play it with a tone bar and pretend it were a lap steel....

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 1 Jan 2009 4:25 pm

Alan,
We were playin' at the Shell Bar one night, and some drunken girl kept screamin, "Freebird." I went in my pack seat, and pulled out all my slides. None of us knew the tune, but were vaguely familiar with the melody. So we played it! Three slide guitars, slide bass, and slide fiddle! All hackin' away at the melody. I almost peed my pants, I was laughin' so hard! We didn't get invited back to that bar!

Paul Arntson · Post by **Paul Arntson** » 1 Jan 2009 4:50 pm

1937 Epiphone 8. Aluminum plate over mahogany.

It also had the name "Dallas Sorrells" scratched inside the pickup cavity. Never found out who that was.

I changed over to a 53 Deluxe 8 with a trap. More full tone and increasing in value a little faster.
The Epi was a very fun guitar to play, though. It had the old Bob Dunn plunk to it.

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 2 Jan 2009 5:17 am

At one point I've owned a Fender 400, a Fender 1000, and a MultiKord S-6 w/ 4 pedals but that's all in the past right now I have an old 1952 National Grand Console D-8 as well as an old Regal S-6 which was made in Chicago. I'm not sure of the year of the Regal. Here's a shot of the National....JH in Va.

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