Sho Bud Pro 1? Advice welcome & needed!

[chris hillman]

Heres an update on the steel.

I've spent about 3 hours on it tonight. Started by taking off the mechanism for the 8 & 9th pedals and de cluttering the body of random rods etc... long story short i've now got A & B pedals.

I've changed the bottom 2 strings to B and G# with pulls on both them... nearly universal if you like. Makes sense to me.

Very happy with this... hopefully tomorrow I'll get the C pedal and something else done.

[chris hillman]

Tony, there are some little pads of wood under moving parts... you can just about see one on the last photo. may replace them with something better later though.

The A pedal has to travel a bit further than the B and tricky to press down. whats the best way of raising it? The threaded end of the rod cant go any further... quite like the hight of the B... if not i guess i could lower the B.

[chris hillman]

Struggling with the idea of fitting the E raise (F lever)... the 4th string raise is taken up with the C pedal 4th string raise. need to use the same rod to do both and put a stop half way down for the lever?

anyway here is the first two pedals.... me just messing about and getting used to the string spacing.
[youtube]Struggling with the idea of fitting the E raise (F lever)... the 4th string raise is taken up with the C pedal 4th string raise. need to use the same rod to do both and put a stop half way down for the lever?

anyway here is the first two pedals.... me just messing about and getting used to the string spacing.

[Nick Bidmade]

Plenty of tone in there, Chris!

[chris hillman]

An update on this steel. I've managed to turn it into a 10 String Universal. It has 6 Pedals, ABC and 5 (F lower) 6 (E raise D Lower) 7 (C# but not quite A#) from the Uni tuning.

Struggling to get my Pedal "7" A#/C# raise to work. I used the same C# rod as the "C" pedal, then used the Pedal stop to fine tune the Pedal. The only problem is I cant get the A# which has its own rod and nylon tuner to move enough to do the full tone raise... any ideas?

I need to do a half step/full step 2nd string lower and 1st string raise next.

Chris

Heres the mechanism below. The two bell cracks above the spring, in the middle are for the pedal in question.

[henry]

looks fantastic!
I'd like to see a chart of your 10string uni setup..

also you might want to get some of these before you ruin your floorboards!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Walking-Stick ... 1c50fb9bc9

[Tony Smart]

Re. Rubber feet (ferrules).
An old trick is to put a coin or washer inside the stoppers, so the legs don't cut through the rubber.

[Ken Byng]

Re. Rubber feet (ferrules).
An old trick is to put a coin or washer inside the stoppers, so the legs don't cut through the rubber.

Yep Tony, I always put a 1p coin into the rubber feet. Haven't had any coins wear out yet, but I suppose that in theory a steel washer would be a better bet that a copper coin.

[Jimmy Gibson]

I agree with John, absolutely some of Rons great work, I bet it plays great.




Jimmy.

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

Becky has the ferrules with the washer already in