You've just won the lottery. Which steel?

Duane Noom · Post by **Duane Noom** » 7 Jan 2004 7:19 pm

I even hate to admitt it but with 25+ years of playing I've never played an Emmons. All Sho-Buds and one MSA. A friend of mine has a black beauty with a lift kit. I can't even reach the darn pedals. I could finally buy one, maybe two.
Duane

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 10 Jan 2004 6:36 am

Emmons, MSA, Zum, and a LDG and fingertip Bud.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 10 Jan 2004 10:49 am

Oh yeah this last post just reminded me.
I want Heb Steiners Purple Heart and Ash wood Fingertip Sho-Bud.

To match my purle heart and ash 6 string Fodera bass.

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 10 Jan 2004 10:10 pm

I would buy a Millennuim for myself and then buy everyone on the forum a new piece of gear or steel.
The fact is I dont play the lottery to win.
I play it so I dont lose.

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 10 Jan 2004 11:20 pm

Mike, the obvious answer is not "which steel" but according to many here, is "How many" and I concur with that answer. You can never have too many steels and which color? Blond, brunette, redhead?

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 29 Nov 2005 12:34 pm

I'd see about designing my own - interesting.

BUMP

joe long · Post by **joe long** » 29 Nov 2005 12:53 pm

I realize this is an old thread but here goes. I have, my humble opinion, the best steels at this time. I would buy my wife an old restored Corvette and a real Longhorn calf.

Tom Quinn · Post by **Tom Quinn** » 29 Nov 2005 1:48 pm

A 66 Emmons D-10 -- black, from Bobbe Seymour.

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 29 Nov 2005 3:34 pm

I'd have to get me a Lacquer D10 Rains and a D10 Carter with premium necks and the old wood.

Of course, I'd need a new 40 foot, diesel, Prevost carrying case

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God Bless,
Steve Stallings
D10 9x7 Rains (On order)
D10 8x10 Emmons (Black Beauty)

Jeff Lampert · Post by **Jeff Lampert** » 29 Nov 2005 3:43 pm

Whereas winning the Lottery can get you the best steel in the world, not even Bill Gates money (50+ billion) can make you the best player in the world. And that is really all the matters.

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Jeff's Jazz

Tom Quinn · Post by **Tom Quinn** » 29 Nov 2005 4:16 pm

Party pooper... -L-

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 29 Nov 2005 4:22 pm

I won't worry too much about which steel. I'd invest paying for a good teacher and concentrating on the lessons.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 29 Nov 2005 4:50 pm

The Lord has blessed me, and don't think I don't thank Him every day of my life. Without winning the lottery or having anywhere near the same galaxy of those kinds of dollars, I play the instruments I would purchase if I had all the money in the world; a 1964 Emmons, a 1970 Sho-Bud Professional, a 1956 Stringmaster, a 1949 Bigsby, and a made-for-me Fessenden.

Now if I had only bought all the real estate I could have gotten at bargain basement prices over the years... sheeesh!!!

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 29 Nov 2005 5:49 pm

Jimmy Days' Blue Darlin' that we've all been drooling over here on the Forum. And maybe that blonde Super Pro II that I've seen here too. Also a nice Emmons, and one of those new hybrid Zums.

GARYPHILLIPS · Post by **GARYPHILLIPS** » 29 Nov 2005 5:55 pm

I would buy the JCH STEEL GUITAR CO,

and call Chuck Back he knows how builded great steel guitars, then i would move too AZ.

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Gary Phillips
JUST-N-CASE PLUS
D-10 8/5 Desert Rose Steel Guitar
& D-10 8/5 Rains Steel Guitar

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 29 Nov 2005 7:37 pm

A new Hybrid Zum and a Lacquer Carter LE with the inlays !! Bewdy ---- and probably a Marrs rebuilt Bud !

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 29 Nov 2005 7:52 pm

I'd get a GFI E9th 12 string 3 and 5 with a Z lever, plus an MSA Millenium C6th 12 string with what ever peddles Reese would suggest, and a 7 string lap steel tuned to Shot jacksons E tuning.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 29 Nov 2005 8:31 pm

I put some more thought into it, assuming Mike's scenario that I won the Lottery.

I've decided I'd open up a steel guitar store, and I'd keep it open until the money ran out.

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Herb's Steel Guitar Pages
Texas Steel Guitar Association

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 29 Nov 2005 8:54 pm

That's a hard one to answer because there are a lot of steels I love. My GFI Ultra D-10 is a wonderful steel guitar and I can't stop playing it! Brett, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel, GFI Ultra D-10

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 29 Nov 2005 10:13 pm

Well, after all this time since my last Reply, I still haven’t won the Lottery, but; I have seen the ‘Light’ and have a New Burgundy D–10 Derby w/6 & 8 on order!

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“Big John” Bechtel
Coming Soon: New Burgundy D–10 Derby (w/6 &

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’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15” Eminence.
Current Equipment

Chris Lucker · Post by **Chris Lucker** » 29 Nov 2005 10:48 pm

I am not trying to be the "heavy" here, but go back and read what Winnie Winston wrote. Prophetic.

MUSICO · Post by **MUSICO** » 30 Nov 2005 2:53 am

Thanks for that comment Chris.

Winnie taught us all a lot more than steel.

Jeremy Williams
Barcelona Spain

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 30 Nov 2005 3:17 am

Ed Packard's 'Beast.'
I'd just sit and look at it.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 30 Nov 2005 6:04 am

Ditto... A Beast,
which wasn't in the picture the last time this therwead was up.

But also what Jeff Lampert said.
Lotsa time for FOCUSED woodsheding,
and the best guys to be infulenced by, hands on.

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 30 Nov 2005 7:20 am

Bob C. you forgot the Rains, but you'll only need one, a little-dab-l-doya, HA HA