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Topic: Another Carter |
Gil James
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Louisiana, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2024 7:24 am |
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Just acquired this one. Does anybody recognize it?
Lovely sounding guitar. If there's a interesting history behind the moniker and this guitar, I may leave
the nameplate on,otherwise I'm not adopting a new nickname😁. It does have a copedant that I'm not familiar with, vertical KL raises the f#'s to G, and RKL raises B's to Bb. This is throwing my already strained mind off kilter. Hopefully it won't be to hard to change it to what I'm used to. Bb's on the vertical.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 12 Mar 2024 10:04 am
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RKL is actually lowering B to Bb. F#s to G is a very common change, has been for many decades.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, NV400, NV112 . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Gil James
From:
Louisiana, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2024 11:04 am
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| Right, lowers........it the switch of the vertical and knee levers that's throwing me off. All my other guitars have the B>Bb on the Vertical knee lever. |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 12 Mar 2024 3:46 pm
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Carters are pretty easy to work on.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, NV400, NV112 . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Gil James
From:
Louisiana, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2024 8:17 pm
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| I'll go forward with that advice, it would be harder to re- train my brain to knee activity. 😉 |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2024 9:13 pm
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If the Vertical Lever and RKL are tunable in their present setup. Make drawings of Changer Holes and Bell Crank Holes, Take pictures too. It should be easy to reverse them to match what you are used to.
Good Luck in changing the levers, Happy Steelin. |
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Gil James
From:
Louisiana, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2024 10:20 am
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| Thanks guys for the encouragement! Lots of pictures... yes. Not too concerned with the knee lever, but I need my RKL set up like I learned on, 2 raises and a lower on it. Looks like this Carter can do it. I have a GFI set up that I might can visualize from. My hats off to y'all that can change copedants at will, to play what you want to hear. I have enough trouble making music with just the basics. |
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