Stringmaster Lust !!!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2007 5:57 pm

I like the Forum's new Picture Upload feature! Now These are lustful pictures

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2007 6:05 pm

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 16 Mar 2007 7:32 pm

I would hesitate to take that out of the house!! Beautiful!

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 16 Mar 2007 9:16 pm

Sweet! what year is it and what tunings Doug?

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 16 Mar 2007 9:24 pm

What a dog! The buttons on the tuners desperately need buffing.

Sell it to me and I'll retract that statement.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2007 9:52 pm

It's a 1967 and it has not been played much. I bought it a few yesrs ago from a woman who never learned to play it. The current tunings are C6, E13, and Leavitt.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2007 10:09 pm

Rick, It's funny that you should mention the tuner buttons... when I first got this guitar I noticed that the tuner buttons were dull, and I thought it might be from wear. Later I noticed that some late-60s Fender guitars have dull nickel tuner buttons. Kluson made some like that, and I have seen them on old Emmons PSGs too. This stringmaster has that type of tuner button... plain, no chrome.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 17 Mar 2007 10:06 am

[quote="Doug
I never play it. I'm lost without my pedals!

Doug
I'm lost with pedals !!! My D8 is getting dog eared !!
Thats one fine "T" -- The top neck looks to be all bass

Hick

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 17 Mar 2007 11:48 am

My Stringmaster at work:

Ron Brennan · Post by **Ron Brennan** » 17 Mar 2007 11:52 am

Doug,

That is an outstanding Fender T8 Stingmaster you got there!!

I know it's got the Tone and Sound to match it's beauty!!

BTW: I have a "55" Blondie D8 and it has the plain non-chrome keysheads as well...no matter..the tone is what counts, eh?

Thanks for sharing that beauty with us!!! Glad someone like you, who appreciates instruments, has it!! TX

Rgds,

Ron

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 17 Mar 2007 12:51 pm

Here's one of mine - 56 pushbutton E13,Ext Dobro G,and Murphey C6/A9.

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 17 Mar 2007 1:05 pm

Here's another one - 65 D-8
I'm lost without pedals too but that don't stop me from slantin' and slidin'.

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 17 Mar 2007 2:04 pm

I've got one of them there things :-

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Mar 2007 2:20 pm

Great pictures here!

-- The top neck looks to be all bass

Yes... big fat strings on that outer neck.
The Nut on that neck has wider string grooves. It's all part of Fender's master plan

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 17 Mar 2007 5:36 pm

My Minty Fresh 1959 D-8 !

Rick Alexander · Post by **Rick Alexander** » 17 Mar 2007 8:24 pm

That's a beauty Doug!
It's true - there's nothing like a Stringmaster . .

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Mar 2007 9:15 pm

Nice guitars! I agree that there's nothing like a stringmaster. I feel more at home on a stringmaster than on any other non-pedal steel.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Mar 2007 9:47 pm

More on those tuner buttons... when I first got the guitar I tried to polish the buttons, but they remained dull, and I realized that they are not chromed. I have seen very few others like this however. Ron, it's interesting to hear that you have the same style tuner buttons on your stringmaster. I have seen this on a couple of regular electric guitars, some of the new reissue Fender guitars, an old Emmons PSG, and that's about it.

Ron Randall · Post by **Ron Randall** » 17 Mar 2007 9:56 pm

SHOW OFF!

Terrific photography.

Sweet.

Joe A. Camacho · Post by **Joe A. Camacho** » 17 Mar 2007 10:12 pm

Can someone please explain the different scale lengths to me. Does the length of the string affect the tone of Stringmasters? Thanks.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Mar 2007 10:50 pm

Joe, Longer scale lengths offer more Sustain, and some players would argue better tone. Short scale lengths allow for easier bar slants (because the frets are closer together).

Playing bar slants on a long scale steel guitar is particularly difficult on the lower frets, fret 1, 2, & 3 because the frets are so far apart.

I’ve played a few long scale lap steels that sustain like a piano! The Oahu Tonemaster and it’s Gold Tone clone come to mind. Personally, I prefer the shorter scale because of the easier bar slants. Short scale worked for Jerry Byrd. He played mostly 22 1/2" scale as far as I know, and he had plenty of tone! My T-8 is a 24 1/2" scale.

Stringmasters came in three scale lengths: 22 1/2", 24 1/2", 26"

There is a way to tell the scale length of a Stringmaster by looking at the fret markers:

2 "dots" past the 24th fret = 22 1/2" scale

3 "dots" past the 24th fret = 24 1/2" scale

4 "dots" past the 24th fret = 26" scale

Todd Weger · Post by **Todd Weger** » 18 Mar 2007 5:55 am

Doug -- flippin' GORGEOUS guitar you have there (as well as the others posted). Yummy...

My 1960 D8 has the nickel tuners, but my '56 T8 has the chrome (albeit, dirty chrome at the moment).

Yeah, for getting THAT certain sound, nothing beats a Stringmaster, though I will say that I prefer my frypans for Hawaiian.

TJW

Rick Alexander · Post by **Rick Alexander** » 18 Mar 2007 11:08 am

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 22 Mar 2007 8:02 pm

Rick, You've got more gear than most music stores!

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 23 Mar 2007 10:59 am

Here's my quad Stringmaster. Serial No. 0002

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