Show Us Your Stringmasters

Jerry Berger · Post by **Jerry Berger** » 30 Mar 2017 9:10 am

I recently bought a Fender D8 Stringmaster and I'm enjoying it very much. I would like to see how many of you own these great steels. Let's have a look at yours. Here's mine. Thanks

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Mar 2017 9:20 am

Here's mine, all four of them! Hear it here ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3c70X_WGU

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 30 Mar 2017 9:30 am

Always glad to see some Stringmaster shares...my D-6

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 30 Mar 2017 9:41 am

You might enjoy this thread also...

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... highlight=

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Mar 2017 9:55 am

Thanks for the link, Terry. I had forgotten about that thread!

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 30 Mar 2017 9:58 am

Yeah Doug...it is hard to believe that thread is 10 years old. Time flies...

C. E. Jackson · Post by **C. E. Jackson** » 30 Mar 2017 10:12 am

Steven Meyrich · Post by **Steven Meyrich** » 30 Mar 2017 10:19 am

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Mar 2017 11:04 am

Here's a '56, short scale, I foolishly sold a few years ago!

Butch Pytko · Post by **Butch Pytko** » 30 Mar 2017 1:44 pm

Please excuse my wonderful MAGNATONE that's also in the pictures.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Mar 2017 2:15 pm

Nice looking Stringmasters here. All of them!

Jeff Mead · Post by **Jeff Mead** » 30 Mar 2017 2:43 pm

Here are mine:
A quad

And my single neck orphan:

Jeff Spencer · Post by **Jeff Spencer** » 30 Mar 2017 3:47 pm

Oh wow! Steel guitar envy!!. Doug!! As ever your playing spurs me on!!!

Former Member · Post by **Former Member** » 30 Mar 2017 3:50 pm

Feb, 1954

Thiel Hatt · Post by **Thiel Hatt** » 30 Mar 2017 3:55 pm

When I started out on Steel Guitar the pedals were a thing of the near future. I owned a Triple neck stringmaster but traded it in for a Fender 1000. Later , after I got into the pedal world I wanted to acquire a non-pedal steel, but I wanted more than 8 strings and I wanted the same string spacing as I had gotten used to on the pedal steel. So I ventured out and came up with my own version of a Triple neck nine string. So this is my (string-master). It's had a lot of use and sounds as good as anything I have encountered since I built it. I hope this is not considered an intrusion to this Forum entry...Thiel

Larry Lenhart · Post by **Larry Lenhart** » 30 Mar 2017 8:22 pm

Thanks for starting this thread...I love to see all of those stringmasters ! Here is mine...I like to say it has character

Well used, but still sounds great to my ears ! probably the only steel I wont sell !

Tom Wolverton · Post by **Tom Wolverton** » 31 Mar 2017 6:02 am

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 31 Mar 2017 7:15 am

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 31 Mar 2017 7:19 am

Tom, that's a very cool picture!

Miles Lang · Post by **Miles Lang** » 31 Mar 2017 10:52 am

Brooks Montgomery · Post by **Brooks Montgomery** » 31 Mar 2017 2:49 pm

Those Stringmasters are sweet. Back in 1986 I had a beautiful double light yellow that I got for a trade. Months later - I was down and out , took it to a pawn shop in Seattle, got a loan ( to buy food). Weeks later the pawn shop went out of business, doors chained up, windows papered over, and that was that, "doh!" I lost the Stringmaster. That put off my steel playing for quite a few years. Ah, the envy, looking at all those beauties! Still haunts me.

Michael Lee Allen · Post by **Michael Lee Allen** » 31 Mar 2017 3:53 pm

Guy Cundell · Post by **Guy Cundell** » 31 Mar 2017 5:00 pm

Helping with the setup

"Hmmm... Looks about right."

John Dahms · Post by **John Dahms** » 1 Apr 2017 5:45 am

I am blown away at the number of quads and triples shown. Thats some heavy artillery.
I've have 3 Stringmasters (so far). An early 56 D8 with push buttons, a late 56 D8 with knife switch and a 56 T8.

Michael Lee Allen · Post by **Michael Lee Allen** » 4 Apr 2017 3:34 pm

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Mid 60's, medium scale D-8