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Ray McCulloch


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Missouri, USA
Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 8:29 am    
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Hi yall. First post and I'm glad to be here! I've Been playing a Guyatone double 8 console for a couple years and want to get into a pedal steel. This one came up for sale locally but it is quite puzzling. If anybody can tell me what make or model this is I would be very grateful. The fretboard looks like a franklin, but the rest of it just raises questions.








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Donny Hinson

 

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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 10:17 am    
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That certainly looks like a home-built steel; hard to say what it sounds like or how well it performs. Could be decent (read: "playable"), or it could be crap. I would pass on it and try to get something a little more well-known.
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Pete McAvity

 

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St. Louis, Missouri USA
Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 11:58 am    
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Has a Franklin fretboard, but don't look like anything Mr. F Sr. has been responsible for (from what I seen).
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Ray McCulloch


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Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 12:18 pm    
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The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought
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Doug Beaumier


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Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 1:05 pm    
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I'd pass on that one regardless of how low the price is. It looks like trouble.
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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 3:34 pm    
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Trouble? Yes, probably. But I do like the little leather loop on the end of the case, likely put there to pull it out of the pickup-truck bed after it had slid forward. Mr. Green
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Lloyd Walsh


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San Antonio, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 20 Sep 2022 6:49 pm    
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Looks Reel to me.. Oh Well
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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 27 Sep 2022 11:18 am    
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Brian McCulloch wrote:
The idea of a Franklin getting hacked to pieces, just so this thing can exist is an unsettling thought


Believe me, people have done that and more, lol.
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Jon Zimmerman

 

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Post  Posted 27 Sep 2022 6:46 pm     Anomalies
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Hard to judge what the changer is made of and the type of mechanism, & if stable enuf to hold tuning(s)..need underbelly views to verify. Could’ve been an employee’s crude ‘prototype’?..using avail ‘spares’ to equip it? Agreed..,that troubles are not ‘Farah’-head of you, Brian. IMO.
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