The British Steelies Society

It would be interesting to know how many manufacturers of pedal steel guitars, past and present that were
active in UK Ireland and Europe. I will get the ball rolling with a few from UK and Ireland

Bennett Steel Guitars Birkenhead UK
Sheffield Steel Guitars Southampton UK
Winsteel Steel Guitars Hillsboro Northern Ireland
Lambert Steel Guitars Richill Co.Armagh N.Ireland

Lets see what you can come up with.........

Springfield Livingston
Curnow Cornwall

Come to mind

Driftwood (Pete Willsher and Gerry Evenden) London area(?); Mustang (Clayton Moore) Billingham.

'Redstone' built by Jim Smith from Lyminge/Folkstone Kent (think our very own Dave Kirk played one and had at least a little bit of input into design etc)

Steelie extrordinaire (very ) Kents Ted Barret built a couple of steels but dont recall them ever going into production.

Mustnt forget Gordon Huntley and his part in 'Denley Guitars' also badged as Burns- a few of the older farts will remember them with affection.
Interesting post Ted.

Oh, my goodness, well said Dave; forgot my old pal Jimmy Burns! (PS, what - for want of a more PC word, - a "character").

I built 7 pedal steel guitars, but then came to my senses

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James, Australia and Japan are not in UK or Europe!

Zebedee wrote:I built 7 pedal steel guitars, but then came to my senses

Love it Richard I can only imagine the frustration of building one, I still have a problem changing strings
As a matter of interest what came first playing ? or building?