Rains guitar

Charlie Moore · Post by **Charlie Moore** » 11 Oct 2005 8:24 pm

Let me chime in here,if Gary Carpenter choose the rains over emmons..NUFF said..IMO
Charlie.

Bob Tuttle · Post by **Bob Tuttle** » 12 Oct 2005 4:38 am

Bob H.,
Yes, that was mine. It is a great sounding guitar.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Oct 2005 6:34 am

Roger,
I've got a D-10 Spirit model coming in that same color.

Erv

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 12 Oct 2005 7:42 am

Erv, if you haven't seen this color yet you will love it. I never was a big fan of wood grains on guitars so all my other guitars ive owned except one allways ended ended up black, and when bob told me this one looked like it was a dark brown wood grain but was called perisian red i thought thats gotta be differnt so i took it, and glad i did.
It's the spirit modle.
roger

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Oct 2005 1:32 pm

Roger,
I wasn't sure what color I wanted but I saw a red one on the Rains website and I thought it looked real nice. I had Bob send me a color sample and I really was impressed with the "Scarlet Parisian". The grain pattern is Maple and it's in "Pearlescent".

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 13 Oct 2005 8:17 am

How do you transfur pictures, to post, from imagecave.com?[This message was edited by Roger Francis on 13 October 2005 at 12:05 PM.]

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 13 Oct 2005 8:31 am

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Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 13 Oct 2005 8:47 am

Erv, here are some pics. of mine

http://usera.imagecave.com/francis4/ [This message was edited by Roger Francis on 13 October 2005 at 09:53 AM.]

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 13 Oct 2005 1:32 pm

Roger,
Yes, that's what mine will look like only in a D-10. I sure like the color, too!
Erv

Fred Nolen · Post by **Fred Nolen** » 15 Oct 2005 2:47 am

I couldn't agree more on the accolades for the Rains PSG, nor its builder Bob Rains. Over the years I have become skeptical of business people, as I've been bitten on several occasions. Bob's dedication to his craft and doing whatever it takes to address players concerns has given me a better outlook, for which I am grateful.

One of the great things about this forum is the extremely low amount of negativism I've seen. There are some things we as players need to know; some, however, we don't.

Keep pickin' and talkin'

Ol' Fred

richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 15 Oct 2005 4:59 am

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Doyle Mitchell · Post by **Doyle Mitchell** » 18 Oct 2005 5:10 am

I own one of the first steels that Bob built.Knowing how a new business evolves, my only resevation was knowing that changes and improvments wolud happen in the first year, so do I want to buy now or wait? I chose to buy, and sure enough some changes happened pretty quick. One thing was an option of the distance of the pedals to the left side of the steel. This made a difference in feel depending on if you are using the Day or Emmons set up. I preferred the new option and told Bob I wished that I had that new distance on my steel, he said "bring it over, let's change it" and that is exactly what he did.. At no charge! Great people to do business with.

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 16 Nov 2005 10:43 am

Bob...
What pickups are on the Rains guitars you mentioned?

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God Bless,
Steve Stallings

Fred Justice · Post by **Fred Justice** » 17 Nov 2005 5:46 am

Steve, Bob hardly ever gets on the forum, he works about 16 hours a day, you'll need to e-mail or call him most likely.

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Rains Steel Guitars

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 18 Nov 2005 4:37 am

My Rains has a pretty easy life. We go to a town and play for a senior citizens type show the third and fourth tuesdays of each month and due to me thinking I'm too busy, it stays in the case the rest of the time. I'm impressed with how you take it out of the case and it's still very close to tuned and stays that way. The simplicity of design and playability is tops. Wish I could do it justice with my playing---maybe if I'd practise now and then ???

Todd Bowman · Post by **Todd Bowman** » 21 Nov 2005 11:40 am

I bought Jim Parker's black Rains several weeks ago and I absolutely love it. It is by far the best pedal steel I've played. Not that I've played a lot of guitars, but I absolutely love this guitar and know a good product when I play one. Great tone, great sustain, and easy to play! I'd buy another one if I was in the market for another steel. (Good thing my wife left me already or she'd leave me if she heard me say that!

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Rains D-10, Sho-Bud Pro II, Beard E 6 string, Mike Auldridge (Beard) 8 string, 1937 Rickenbacher B6, Flatiron F-5 Artist, Taylor 810, Deering Golden Era