11 String single neck guitars

[Andrew Frost]

Did ZB make a lot of these ?
I understand companies like Excel and now hopefully Shoji will be making these to custom specs.
But I see them only occasionally come up for sale. Interested in any info on 11 strings. old or new.
Thanks
Andy

[Toshiyuki Shoji]

In the 13 years I worked at Excel, we had one 11-string order and one used repair order.

I would like to accept orders for 11-string in the future.
However, I think the price will be quite high due to the redesign of steel guitar and more custom parts per unit.

I think it is possible to make a 11-string without raising the price by using a 12-string neck, cabinet, etc. as much as possible.

Thank you
Toshiyuki

[Bill McCloskey]

viewtopic.php?t=406878

In the 13 years I worked at Excel, we had one 11-string order and one used repair order.

I guess that the one order was this one currently for sale on the forum. viewtopic.php?t=406878

[Toshiyuki Shoji]

Yes, this is it.

[Dave Zirbel]

Williams, Fessenden and BMI have built 11 string pedal steels, most likely a custom order.

[John De Maille]

My 76' RusLer is an 11 string steel with 5+4. I bought it new and sought of followed Tom Brumleys idea for an 11 string. It served me very well for 27 years.

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[HowardR]

ZB did make 11 strings......I have an S11.......

[Toshiyuki Shoji]

This is the only photos we had of the 11-string that came in for repair. I wish I had taken more photos.

[Dave Stagner]

How are 11 string players tuning it? I've seen both adding a low E to a regular 10 string E9, and also getting rid of the D string and using EG#B for the three lowest strings.

[John De Maille]

I tune mine to straight E-9th tuning with an octave low E for the eleventh string.

[Eric Dahlhoff]

I've had a number of 11-string ZB's.
A double-11, a D10-11, an SD-11 and my current S-11.
The SD-11 was probably my favorite, but the S-11 weighs less and takes up less room.
My first was the D10-11, which was set up with E-G#-B on the bottom (with no D) and that sold me on the 11 string thing.

[Andrew Frost]

Thanks for the relies.
I've been tuning 10 string E9 to a mini universal for a few years now on both S10 and D10. Bottom is G#/B/E ...on upwards. Its a great tuning, with the 'missing' D on a lever.

I've experimented with a low E instead of G# on string 10 which is also good, but ideally would like to have both, without going to S12.

I appreciate the info here.