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Topic: What Is it? BETTER PIC |
Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2022 6:16 pm |
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Thank you for the replies. Might just be a giant home made knee flag?
Dimmensions are 3x3
Not sure where to post this. Came in a box with a steel purchase. Yea yea - Pasta portioner, etc
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Bobby D. Jones
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2022 8:07 pm
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| With the hex screw in the middle and another hole at the edge. May be a knee lever flag. 5 holes just to lighten it. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2022 8:18 am
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Way to thick for a knee flag. 
Erv |
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John Hyland
From:
South Australia
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Posted 29 Dec 2022 12:42 pm
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The piece doesn’t look very big but of course it is relative and has no reference.
I suspect it isn’t related to a pedal steel at all. |
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 29 Dec 2022 12:44 pm
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What's the dimensions? Size of holes? Could be a bill for a metal baseball cap? Or, a steel players front tooth?
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 29 Dec 2022 3:06 pm
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Also, is the underside flat or is it convex as the visible side appears to be?
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 29 Dec 2022 4:37 pm
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My guess, it mounts on the side of a puller to add another pull rod to the next string on a 1+1 or 2+2 changer? However, the rod would have to be anchored to it or a ShoBud barrel tuner incorporated? Hence, multiple holes to line up the rod? The extra hole at its edge is for a roll pin. Wild guess. Otherwise, I stick to my other guess, a steel players front tooth. 
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1976 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics 427 pickup, 1975 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics X-12 pickup, Boss 59 Fender pedal for preamp, NDR-5 Atlantic Delay & Reverb, two Quilter 201 amps, 2- 12" Eminence EPS-12C speakers, ShoBud Pedal, 1949 Epiphone D-8. Revelation preamp into a Crown XLS 1002 power amp. |
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Charlie Hansen
From:
Halifax, NS Canada and Various Southern Towns.
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Posted 30 Dec 2022 10:03 am
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If you save the picture to your computer and go to google and ask What's this , click the camera button and upload the picture it shows a number of things that it could be.
https://tinyurl.com/bdz76hbn
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2023 10:47 am
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I like Dennis' speculation about it being to expand the reach of a bellcrank, except that the through holes seem more suited for cross shafts than for pull rods, or pedal rods for that matter.
Thinking about knee levers again, could it be added to the lower portion of a knee lever to facilitate moving the knee a couple inches without moving its cross shaft? Could it be a part to make a vertical knee lever mount?
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 1 Jan 2023 11:01 am
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If I'm seeing this properly, those holes are around 3/4".
For reference, round Sho-Bud cross shafts are around 5/16" -- less than half the size of these holes. This makes me recalibrate my imagination a lot as I work on this puzzle. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2023 3:05 pm
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Jon, you are right about the hole sizes.
Maybe a guide for cables -- electric cables -- but why?
The piece is looking more like a knee lever flag as mentioned earlier.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2023 7:03 pm
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| What size is the diameter of the Allen screw? The shadow on the picture makes it hard to see and measure. |
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Keith Bolog
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2023 7:44 am Allen screw and other Q answered
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FIRST OFF thanks for all the replies.
The allen takes a 3/16 wrench and has coarse threads not sure what pitch.
Large holes are indeed .75" Ever so slightly imperfectly spaced = hand made
The other side is flat not beveled and there is a chamfer barely visible in the first picture.
The second 'allen' hole is a pilot hole, unthreaded, and is not centered. Someone spent a lot of time finishing it, the beveled top, rounded edges, chamfer, and polishing. That hole could be an exasperating mistake at the end of the project, then again the maker wouldnt wait until the very end to drill and tap. Right?
As a flag it is a bit massive @ 5 oz tho it would be very comfortable. Think about this: what knee lever is oriented to mount this on? The fat allen would have to go through the narrow cross section of most KLs. I could see it working as a vertical KL somehow.
Maybe its aluminum scrap unrelated to anything guitar-ish, and ended up in the box of misc. The owner is long gone.
AND another thing - Google lens finds nothing similar.
Thanks again everyone.
Cheers
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 4 Jan 2023 8:16 am
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Now that it's size is revealed, it sounds unrelated to steel guitar.
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1976 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics 427 pickup, 1975 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics X-12 pickup, Boss 59 Fender pedal for preamp, NDR-5 Atlantic Delay & Reverb, two Quilter 201 amps, 2- 12" Eminence EPS-12C speakers, ShoBud Pedal, 1949 Epiphone D-8. Revelation preamp into a Crown XLS 1002 power amp. |
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Ross Shafer
From:
Petaluma, California
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Posted 4 Jan 2023 8:17 am
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| Cap screw is a 1/4-20. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 4 Jan 2023 8:50 am
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A rare prototype of a part Paul Bigsby was working on.
(Were cap screws even around back in those days?)
~Lee |
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Dan Otranto
From:
Vermont, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2023 1:15 pm
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Yes!
The pickups Bigsby put on a lot of the guitars he made had black oxide cap screws as the pole pieces. |
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David Ball
From:
North Carolina High Country
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Posted 5 Jan 2023 1:57 am
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I wonder if maybe it was used to neatly route mike cables to a PA. Like a snake, but primitive...
Dave |
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Tom Sosbe
From:
Rushville,In
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Posted 5 Jan 2023 6:49 am
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| I don't know what it is and I don't believe it has anything to do with steel guitar. |
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Greg Forsyth
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2023 9:37 am
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| My imagination tells me its a clutch foot rest pedal that was bolted to the sidewall in the old time cars. Rest your foot on it will not clutching. Some imagination , eh? |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2023 10:21 am
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It's a thing-a-ma-jig.
Erv |
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David Ball
From:
North Carolina High Country
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Posted 5 Jan 2023 11:33 am
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| Maybe the maker didn't really understand how brass knuckles work? |
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Charlie Hansen
From:
Halifax, NS Canada and Various Southern Towns.
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Posted 6 Jan 2023 10:00 am
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It's a Noodin-Naddin for a goose's bridle.
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I don't know much but what I know I know very well.
Carter S-10 3X5, Peavey Nashville 112, plus Regal dobro and too many other instruments to mention.
Bluegrass Island CFCY FM 95.1 Charlottetown, PE, Canada, on the web at cfcy.fm.
A Touch Of Texas CIOE FM 97.5 Sackville, NS, Canada,
on the web at cioe975.ca. |
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Steven Pearce
From:
Port Orchard Washington, USA
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 9 Jan 2023 6:12 am
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Was the "thing-a-ma-jig" invented before the "do-dad"??
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1976 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics 427 pickup, 1975 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics X-12 pickup, Boss 59 Fender pedal for preamp, NDR-5 Atlantic Delay & Reverb, two Quilter 201 amps, 2- 12" Eminence EPS-12C speakers, ShoBud Pedal, 1949 Epiphone D-8. Revelation preamp into a Crown XLS 1002 power amp. |
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