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Topic: 7 String Lap Steels...tell me more! |
Jim Palenscar
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Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 8 Apr 2021 6:58 am |
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Tommy Martin Young
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Sacramento-California, USA
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Posted 8 Apr 2021 7:28 am
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I'm also a sucker for rescues ('52 Fender husk) and the unloved ($69 Rogue)
The Champion was built to match my blonde Squier '51 (flat black pickguard, Rukavina nut, Melbert bridge, Gemini p/u, Riot Works tuner) Tuning: A6 (7-strings feel like they were built for 1356135)
The "Chipas Regal*" Rogue just looked like it wanted to be art deco modern. Always dug the Magnatone scalloped fretboard and the Gibson reverse-painted plastic fretboard - so I married them on a 23" scale, this required the bridge to be pushed to the butt end of the guitar and the strings waterfall into the tailpiece attached to the butt. Lipstick p/u will be swapped out (mag field isn't ideal) for a 7-string humbucker.This will be my travel git. Tuning: Byrd C6/A7 (AC#EGACE...talk about economy of motion and voice leading. Everyday I find something new and cool!) (*Chipas Regal is the moniker I use anytime I add Cadillac fins to a Yugo...it's pronounced Cheapass Regál!)
From the Didja Know File: Didja know the Rogue is a knock off of the 1960 Guyatone HG-56B? Now you do!
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The One & Lonely Tommy Young
"Now is the time for drinking;
now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot."
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john widgren
From:
Wilton CT
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Posted 8 Apr 2021 7:46 am Trotmore...or less
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Just got this in...sounds awesome
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(203) 858-8498
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Loren Tilley
From:
Maui, Hawaii
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Posted 8 Apr 2021 10:14 am
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I like this guitar, but the string spacing is still a bit narrower than a B-6, and so I don’t play it much. I feel that the touch and familiarity are so important on steel that I find it hard to switch between different guitars, much more so to me than standard guitar. 7 strings do make it nice to have the root on the lowest string for A6 or C6 high G
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Rickenbacher B-6 |
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Allan Revich
From:
Victoria, BC
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Posted 18 Apr 2021 9:19 pm
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I like this guitar, but the string spacing is still a bit narrower than a B-6, and so I don’t play it much. I feel that the touch and familiarity are so important on steel that I find it hard to switch between different guitars, much more so to me than standard guitar. 7 strings do make it nice to have the root on the lowest string for A6 or C6 high G
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That’s a very nice pre-war B7.
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – D G D G B D
7 String | G9 – D G B D F A D
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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