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46% |
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| No Pad |
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39% |
[ 30 ] |
| Small pad |
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14% |
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Topic: SD10 - Pad, No Pad or Small Pad |
John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 3:32 pm |
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"Comfortable for bare forearms when it's hot."
Well,,,,,your bare arms shouldn't be resting on your guitar! You've got a lap.
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Dr. Z Surgical Steel amp, amazing!
"74 Bud S-10 3&6
'73 Bud S-10 3&5(under construction)
'63 Fingertip S-10, at James awaiting 6 knees
'57 Strat, LP Blue
'91 Tele with 60's Maple neck
Dozen more guitars!
Dozens of amps, but SF Quad reverb, Rick Johnson cabs. JBL 15, '64 Vibroverb for at home.
'52 and '56 Pro Amps |
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Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 3:39 pm
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| John Billings wrote: |
"Comfortable for bare forearms when it's hot."
Well,,,,,your bare arms shouldn't be resting on your guitar! You've got a lap. |
Yeh, yeh , and the fork goes on the left, and the little fork is for salad.😎
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 4:17 pm Bond with the bar to control the guitar
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This post is becoming a key driver for me, watershed moment. My takeaway: a proper relationship with the bar is necessary. Gotta do it, now. It's an intimate and powerful link with the instrument.
Thank you, Paul, for cutting to the chase. You got my attention. To those who reached out and offered to show me how, I am grateful. The fellowship here is amazing, humbling, and uplifting.
Your suggestions are all appreciated. Each of us is uniquely constructed. Posture, seat height/position, guitar height/slope (front:back), lever angle adjustments, Day vs. Emmons, first pedal on 1 or Zero? So many considerations, and they do make a difference. And it took me all of this time to realize I need to learn how to hold this steel bar. Why go to all the trouble? Something draws us to this "nice little hobby." Maybe it's intangible, but there's no denying its strength. It's "Really Got A Hold On Me." |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 4:28 pm
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| John Billings wrote: |
"Comfortable for bare forearms when it's hot."
Well,,,,,your bare arms shouldn't be resting on your guitar! You've got a lap. |
Ha! I needed that. Hey, look, I think Chris Ivey heard that one. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 7:40 pm
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Brooks if that pad had a head An tale it would look better. Take that off that
beautiful wood. Just kinda joking what ever floats your boat. |
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Tim Herman
From:
Alberta, Canada
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Posted 26 May 2018 4:43 am
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| I am working on a guitar for a student. If you find you don't need that pad, I would sure take it off your hands. Let me know. |
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Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 6:18 am
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| Johnie King wrote: |
Brooks if that pad had a head An tale it would look better. Take that off that
beautiful wood. Just kinda joking what ever floats your boat. |
Johnie, you know you got a point, if it was painted to look like a rattler, I would tend to keep my arms off of the guitar! 
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 5:37 pm
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| Tim Herman wrote: |
| I am working on a guitar for a student. If you find you don't need that pad, I would sure take it off your hands. Let me know. |
Tim, if I didn't have 5 holes in the top of my guitar I'd be glad to let you have it. The piece of wood that serves as the foundation has threaded studs for the 5 screws that hold it to the deck. So it's going back on to the guitar, albeit dressed for a less pretentious occasion. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 28 May 2018 6:53 am
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After checking myself out I have come to the conclusion that when I play my Desert Rose S-10 which is a body and a half wide, smaller than a SD-10 Yet a little wider than an S-10 I only use the pad to help push my picks on,I don't lean my bar hand on it at all,Maybe because my gut is in the way?just my observation.
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 28 May 2018 9:23 am
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 cool Desert Rose Pad |
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Dale Rottacker
From:
Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Posted 28 May 2018 2:43 pm
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Dan, when I ordered my new MSA S-10, I waffled like crazy for a time if I wanted S10, or SD10, with or without a pad... The reason I waffled so much is because although I like the idea of a Pad, when I go and play my Dad’s LDG, my forearms sweat like crazy because of the pad... Some manufacturers use different material than the old LDG’s, and some of it is “Less†sweaty than other's... I’ve only felt the LDG’s and the Show Pro’s which I thought was very good... its a little harder and thinner than some of the others, and I didn’t seem to have any issues with it... although I bought an MSA, I had never felt their pad, so with the not knowing, I finally decided to opt for no pad... On this guitar I think the look is cleaner, and the guitar feels like I want it too when I’m sitting behind it... Aaaaaaaand, no sweaty forearms  
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Dale Rottacker, Steelinatune™
*2021 MSA Legend, "Jolly Rancher" D10 10x9
*2021 Rittenberry, "The Concord" D10 9x9
*1977 Blue Sho-Bud Pro 3 Custom 8x6
https://msapedalsteels.com
http://rittenberrysteelguitars.com
https://www.telonics.com/index.php
https://www.p2pamps.com
https://www.quilterlabs.com |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 29 May 2018 5:54 am
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Johnnie King ,Great western tooling,Did you took the leather?
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2018 5:54 pm
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2018 6:06 pm
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| Double 12 conversion I used 1/4 inch maple board an covered with 1 /8 inch yoga mat and covered with case material so it 3/8 thick if I had thin leather would be cool. Attached with double sided tape. Can u imagine drilling holes in deck of one of Jeff’s Sho Pros to stick a pad on that beautiful wood. You might talk Jeff into selling u a thin pad his pads supper cool looking. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2018 6:43 pm
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 this pad slips on an off I call it a wrist pad set your bar Han free |
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