MY 10/8 STRING BUILD...

[telboy]

HEY HO, GUESS WHAT IVE FINALLY FINISHED[WELL MORE OR LESS] FINALLY SORTED OUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE NUT BUZZING, EVERYTHING SEEMS TO LINE UP, TO ME IT LOOKS KOOL, SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD TOO! YEEEEEEEEEEEHAW, TIME TO PLUG IT IN AND LEARN A NEW TUNING, GOING FOR E6, AS IT'S PRETTY SIMILAR TO C6 BUT HAS A MORE VINTAGE SOUND IE 40S/50S HILLBILLY BOP STYLEE...PICS N SOUND CLIP TO FOLLOW...

[telboy]

heres a short vid of the geetar, forget the bum notes, what dya think of the sound? im aiming for the 40s/50s sound...E6 8 string going through that small 15W fender...theres still a couple of adjustments that i need to do but im pretty happy with my 1st attempt at making a lapsteel hope you enjoy terry... ps ignore the other pics/vids just some old fish stuff

[henry]

lovely stuff.. how do you do that with no pedals?!
nice tone too..

[telboy]

thanks for the nice comments henry, im new to this geetar malarky, been playing appx 18 months, just play along to CDs during my lunch break at work... as i said im pretty happy with the way its turned out, especially when i dont have any proper tools, just a blunt chisel, a tennant saw and a few other bits n bobs as for no pedals, just looking at a pedal steel confuses me, i dont know how you guys cope all that to think about and still having to find the right note

[bob adams]

Great stuff Tel, keep 'em coming! Good to see those tulip tuners in action again after forty years!!!!

[Ruby Darnell]

That sounds GREAT. Would love to see the guitar too as well as T shirt if poss! LOL
It's definitely got that vintage sound you were looking for.

[sabatica]

If you build affordable 10 string guitars for under £300 you will wipe the market clean cause no one cares about body shape. More strings means more possibilities. 10 string lapsteel guitars should be the standard if we are going to continue to push the boundaries of the instrument. 8 at least so keep it up. 10 strings however would be ideal.

My two pence.

[Will C]

Nice job, Tel, lovely vintage sound. What's the tuning? I'm building my own 8-string, would appreciate some help there.

Will C