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Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:58 am
by WineRider
This is the final build now I think it's OK. I still have a couple of issue's with my work, but I like the tone of it...just me playing it is the major problem!!!
Winerider
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:18 pm
by Barry
Looks nice.
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:07 pm
by joehw
Nice work!
A very well finished guitar. Congrats!
What pickup did you go for?
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:14 am
by WineRider
Hi, joehw,
After considering several options I fitted a DiMarzio Ionizer8, It's sound is good for me and the pole spacing is exactly right. Easy to fit, but I did canibilise two mounts to make one. A bit of cutting and shutting...it works.
WineRider aka Maurice
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:18 pm
by sabatica
Looks great. Console steels make sense indeed. Lap playing seems a bit like playing keyboard on your lap. Hahaha
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:26 pm
by Ken Byng
Nice job Maurice. 
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:26 pm
by WineRider
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:57 pm
by Ken Byng
Maurice
We all have to make career choices in life. You chose a route of M/C racing, and some of your memories will be priceless.
I started playing lap steel in 1963 aged 14. Different road, but we meet up at a junction later in life. 
My oldest pupil was aged 73, and he picked it up pretty well. You're never too old to start on this great instrument.
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:24 am
by WineRider
Morning Ken,
Well let me see 1963if it was around July then I would have been 18 and classed as professional road racer, although in those days we all had to have some sort of day job, an understanding boss, who allowed us time off for racing. You're right about the memories, last night I was in a melacholly mood watching some of the Barry Sheen story on BBC 2, aren't satellites wonderful!!!! but I had to give in and record it for another day, it brought back many, many memories. But thenI went into my small music room come office, sat down and played something that I have been struggling with, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" like I have never played before...so where is the psychology in that? Is music all down to the mind...with a little help from the right and left hand?
Maurice
Re: Picture of my 8 string creation
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:59 am
by Ken Byng
Maurice
Psychology plays a huge part in music and performance. Hence why sometimes one can play a gig absolutely flawlessly, and on another occasion you can't piece 2 notes together. The brain is a very strange and complex organ.
1963 was a very important year for me. A guy in my class brought a Santo & Johnny single to school. It was Teardrop, with The Long Walk Home on the B-side. That was the moment when I knew that I had to play steel guitar, (I think that they call it an epiphany moment), and my dad bought me a s/h lap steel. The guitarist in my dad's combo also played lap steel, and brilliantly too. His name was Kealoha Life. I spent a lot of times just quietly watching and listening to him play. Yep 1963 was a memorable year for me, the longest and hardest winter I can remember, and the year that I took up playing steel guitar.
