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Topic: Pedal Steels on Reverb dot com |
Patrick Thornhill
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Jay Kardong
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Seattle, Washington
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Posted 8 Jan 2018 8:54 pm |
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| Might have to make a trip down to Portland just to see the Bigsby. Not often you find one let alone one for sale. |
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Eugene, Oregon
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Posted 9 Jan 2018 11:56 pm Cherry Bigsby?
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I'm not sure from the Photos, but that Bigsby sure looks like Cherry wood to me.
Also where are that guys legs?
Think I may have read somewhere that Paul Bigsby did build one or more from Cherry wood, but can't remember for sure and I'm no expert.
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Custom inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering.
Promat #11 2007, D-10 Blond & Mahogany with Gold Tuners.
Clinesmith Triple 8 Console, Birdseye Maple.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel.
Clinesmith Aluminum 8 String Frypan.
1950's? Blankenship D-8 PSG Restored.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8, Restoration Project.
Morrell 8 string lap steel. |
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Chris Scruggs
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2018 11:31 am
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| It is Cherry! A few Bigsby steels were made with Cherry wood, including Ernie Ball's S-10. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Eugene, Oregon
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Posted 12 Jan 2018 4:55 pm Thanks to Chris & Bill.
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Thanks to Chris & Bill.
Your posts were good.
After I posted my comment I looked up in the Bigsby book (Should have done that first) and saw the Ernie Ball steel and guess that's where I'd seen a cherry wood one before.
To Bill goes a special thanks for those links, very interesting and I've book marked the pages to read more carefully when I'm fully awake. It's still early morning on this side of the big ball.
Would be good to know the total number of Cherry steels he built just because I find the man so interesting. Myself I worked with cherry many times in cabinet making but never really liked the wood enough to use it in an instrument. Think if ever I could afford a Bigsby I'd want it to be a birdseye maple one. 
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Custom inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering.
Promat #11 2007, D-10 Blond & Mahogany with Gold Tuners.
Clinesmith Triple 8 Console, Birdseye Maple.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel.
Clinesmith Aluminum 8 String Frypan.
1950's? Blankenship D-8 PSG Restored.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8, Restoration Project.
Morrell 8 string lap steel.
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 12 Jan 2018 5:06 pm
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Not to distract from the thread but Andy, you just made me remember something. When I was small, my dad cut down a Cherry tree and was determined to build something with it. We moved that log (it was big) from house to house, even moving it across the state. And after he died, my mom had to throw it out. Everytime I think if holding on to something that I'll get to one day, I think about that log.
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