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This topic was originally posted in this forum: Wanted To Buy |
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Vern Kendrick Member Posts: 442 |
posted 08 September 2000 08:16 PM
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Mike Weirauch Member Posts: 3528 |
posted 08 September 2000 08:56 PM
Herb Steiner is the "official" horseshoe ring historian. He can bring you to light on it's mystical powers!  |
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Bobby Lee Sysop Posts: 14849 |
posted 13 September 2000 11:23 AM
What's the story, Herb? |
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Mark Tomeo Member Posts: 400 |
posted 13 September 2000 01:31 PM
Watch out...I posted this same question a couple years back (in the pre-UBB days!!) and caught a ton of flack and ridicule. All I know is there's a reference by Jim Messina to the "brotherhood of those who wear the diamond horeseshoe ring" in his intro to Rusty Young's "Pedal Steel Guitar Handbook," and Jeff Newman has been know to sport such a ring. Damned if I know what, but there's something to all diamond horseshoe ring business, and you're a better man than I if you can get to the bottom of it. |
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PLAYSTEEL9 Member Posts: 689 |
posted 13 September 2000 01:50 PM
THEY COULD TELL US, but then they would have to kill us.  ------------------ |
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Joe Herchel unregistered Posts: 689 |
posted 13 September 2000 01:53 PM
I suspect it's some kind of Tab Decoder.  ------------------ |
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Bob Farlow Member Posts: 895 |
posted 13 September 2000 02:59 PM
Mystical powers? Vern's ring doesn't seem to be working at this juncture. |
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Charlie Vaughn Member Posts: 324 |
posted 13 September 2000 05:05 PM
I had a diamond horseshoe ring like Vern's but it didn't help with the mystical powers so I sold it to Sam Tucker. Maybe it's the man, seemed to work for him. |
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Vern Kendrick Member Posts: 442 |
posted 13 September 2000 06:38 PM
Buddy told me one time it had to be at least a half Carat before you can be accepted and there's much more to it than that |
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Vern Kendrick Member Posts: 442 |
posted 13 September 2000 06:41 PM
Bob you wanna buy one cheeep |
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Bob Anderson Member Posts: 119 |
posted 13 September 2000 07:44 PM
I hear it only works for those with the Jimmy Day Setup  |
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Mark Tomeo Member Posts: 400 |
posted 14 September 2000 07:50 AM
My point exactly, Vern... You'll get a lot of happy horse**** about the diamond horseshoe, but nobody will step up and tell you what's what. |
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steve takacs Member Posts: 1256 |
posted 15 September 2000 01:29 AM
Geez, this ring is not exactly an example of "understated elegance" is it? Do they also come in rhinstones instead of diamonds to fit the budgets steelers with too many steels? |
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Vern Kendrick Member Posts: 442 |
posted 15 September 2000 07:00 PM
I think it started in the 60's even before the "fast draw days",..if anybody knows,let's hear about it |
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Jody Sanders Member Posts: 2889 |
posted 16 September 2000 01:27 PM
My reason for wearing one is too simple. My "Main Man" The BIG E was wearing one, so I figured it couldn't hurt, and might help. So I got one. Jody. |
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Jody Sanders Member Posts: 2889 |
posted 16 September 2000 01:29 PM
And if you believe all of that, I have some "ocean front property in Nebraska." Jody. |
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dneeley unregistered Posts: 2889 |
posted 17 September 2000 05:28 AM
How much you won't for it. Dean Neeley |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 17 September 2000 08:10 AM
Many years ago, they were quite popular rings. I know they were big back in the '30s. And decades before that, "Diamond Jim Brady" was reported to have a mighty fine one. I did notice, however, that when I started playing steel (in the '60s) almost every good steel player (and a few "not-so-good") had one. I think it was a way to show that they were "doin' pretty good", and also it gave them something other than a steel, or an amp, to hock if they needed money fast! |
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Charlie Vaughn Member Posts: 324 |
posted 17 September 2000 08:56 AM
Right on Donnie, that is exactly what I used mine for. I played steel for a guy name Sammy Tucker and was always having to borrow money to get by at times. He always liked the ring and he eventually ended up with it. After I got a real job I tried to buy it back and he said he had lost it. They are kinda hard to find now. |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 17 September 2000 09:31 AM
Charlie, if you're still interested, e-bay always has a dozen or two of these listed! |
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