Midlife crisis ahoy! BNOPSG.

jpfamps

I know, I know I said I wouldn't.

Perhaps should be in other instruments.

octatonic

Why would you do this to yourself?

Oh, congrats.

richardhomer

Nice knitting machine!

Keefy

This way madness lies!

Flink_Poyd

Cool weaving loom. Bagsies first scarf!

Clashman

Where's the bench with the body?

equalsql

You just need to rewire your brain now
It looks great... And I'm just a little bit jealous!

jpfamps

I should add I am not giving myself a deadline for public performance.

Teyeplayer

Flipping lovely! Enjoy!

mudslide73

Big Peaveys with massive headroom are the order of the day. I used to work with a pedal steel player and he used to say "there's the way Buddy does it and then there's the wrong way".

icu81b4

Very nice, I have a Bennetts Pedal Steel. 

ICBM

I had one of those once.

The chap I bought it from said it was like trying to play a guitar, drive a car and operate a knitting machine all at the same time.

I don’t know if he was right since I’ve never tried to operate a knitting machine, but I’m sure it can’t be as hard as playing a pedal steel!

All was not lost... I did manage to sell it for a profit.

jpfamps

ICBM said:

I had one of those once.

The chap I bought it from said it was like trying to play a guitar, drive a car and operate a knitting machine all at the same time.

I don’t know if he was right since I’ve never tried to operate a knitting machine, but I’m sure it can’t be as hard as playing a pedal steel!

All was not lost... I did manage to sell it for a profit.

I've been playing quite a lot of lap steel recently, so I have some control over at least 2 of the limbs required to work it, and the volume pedal.

My main problem so far has been trying to set the steel up so it is comfortable for me to play (I'm quite tall, and the person I bought it off is very short). 

Without wanting to tempt fate, it's actually more logical than it first appears, however it does require some contortions to say the least.

I too have also been made an offer that would put me in profit........

RandallFlagg

You've been mugged off, you'll never iron a shirt on that.

Winny_Pooh

Happy for you, will be awesome once you get the hang of it.

octatonic

Winny_Pooh said:

Happy for you, will be awesome once you get the hang of it.  you will end up selling it or it will sit unused for years before you give it to some poor bastard.

Fixed.

p90fool

Have fun! I started to dabble with lap steel a couple of years ago in C6 tuning - I kept a tuner on it all the time so I could see what note I was playing whenever I felt lost. 

Teyeplayer

ICBM said:

The chap I bought it from said it was like trying to play a guitar, drive a car and operate a knitting machine all at the same time.

BJ Cole once explained it to me as being closer to playing the harp than a guitar. As the man knows a thing or two about pedal steel, when I finally got one myself I had to keep telling myself it was nothing like a guitar! He was right.

jpfamps

p90fool said:

Have fun! I started to dabble with lap steel a couple of years ago in C6 tuning - I kept a tuner on it all the time so I could see what note I was playing whenever I felt lost. 

I've been playing lap steel for a couple of years now, mainly using A6 and E13, although I do have a 6 string that's tuned to C6 (and I would like to investigate C6/A7 at some stage).

I'll be using E9 on the PSG though.

DLM

Big Noisy Old Pedal Steel Guitar?

ESBlonde

jpfamps said:

I too have also been made an offer that would put me in profit........

Shouldn't this be in the For Sale section - pedalling your wares, honestly some people.


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