What is the history of these items being used for this purpose?

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Regards
-- Eugene@FJ45.com

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Herb's Steel Guitar Pages
Texas Steel Guitar Association

I like the Sho-Bud fingerboards so much that I installed one on my Carter. They just look cool, IMO.

I know many Sho-Bud's have been changed because of belief. There's also some ministers that consider the Steel a "Honky Tonk Instrument" with no place in church.
One thing is for sure, I have no place in their church. Closed minds are not for me.

I'd like to know why MSA selected Chess Pieces. Reese??

If you're against atomic weapons can you still play an Emmons?

I wanted to continue to use the symbols even on the new MSA Millennium because my feelings have always been, "the chess pieces provide the perception of a dignified and intellectual connotation".

I of course cannot speak for Tom or Danny as to the reasons behind their decision to use them originally!

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Steel what?

[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 02 February 2003 at 02:12 AM.]

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Jim Smith jimsmith94@attbi.com
-=Dekley D-12 10&12=-
-=Fessenden D-12 (coming soon)=-
Stereo Steel rig w/Boss GX-700
IVL SteelRider w/JV-880

"Pagan" though they may be, I like the look of them...

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Billy Easton
Casa Grande, AZ
Southwestern Steel Guitar Association

[This message was edited by Billy Easton on 03 February 2003 at 07:45 AM.]

Yes, it was called The Suppertime Frolic. It was a local broadcast from WJJD in Chicago during the 40's and 50's. When Randy died, the show did not survive. Randy was one of the nation's first "talk a commercial to death" announcers. For every 2 minute song he played he talked and "pitched" for a solid 20 minutes. And many times longer by the CLOCK. He was considered one of the most successful radio salesman ever. Made a fortune.

But for a listener who loved "hillbilly" music, it had to be the epitome of borrrrrrrrring. So lonnnnnnnnnnng between songs.

Randy was a lover of the "Chuck Wagon Gang". I am talking about the original group. And he played a lot of their songs. I couldn't stand them as a kid. Now I have aquired somewhat of a taste for their style. Randy even recorded with them singing tenor on ocassion.

Not sure we are talking about the same program. Maybe. I barely recall the theme song. It might have been Joaguin Murphy now that my memory is being jogged though.

There is no "one size fits all" in Christianity. The scriptures are about 10% what you MUST do, and about 10% what you must NOT do...and the remaining 80% called the "Gray" area is where most of the differences between the denominations occur.

I don't find any specific references in the scriptures to chess & card suits on fingerboards, or many of the other controversial things such as whether or not to play musical instruments in worship, so those by default fall into the gray area.

I feel strongly however, that the scriptural admonition for each person to "work out their salvation with fear and trembling" applies directly to the "gray" area.

What one Christian may believe is a sin because of his interpretation of the gray area, may not be a sin for another Christian because his interpretation of the gray is different.

....but regardless of our belief, none of us will ever qualify based on our actions...God's GRACE is the only thing that will "save" any of us....

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Bob Grado, Williams D10 (lefty), Peavey 1000,
Profex ll.

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?

Answer: If they got caught, someone might think they were dancing.......

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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.

It is of course "gambling". It is that and Halloween, Christmas and soo many other things, that were indeed considered a sin when first done. And some for valid reasons.

Fortunately, for cards, Christmas, Halloween, etc. the meaning has LONG since changed drastically from how it got started. And it is the meaning that is important, NOT the physical. But habits and traditions, etc are hard to break.

A sin much greater than gambling or any other sin almost; is making the "law" MORE one's God than God himself. This is sad and has been practiced forever.

Man has often put much more emphasis on "thou shall not", than the meaning of "thou shalt not". In many many instances, it is the "you can't do that" that drives beliefs instead of bringing the love of Jesus into one's heart.

When the latter happens, all else is moot. Because when that happens, a person has fulfilled totally ALL the commandments in their hearts. And THAT is what our Lord and Savior wanted; AND sees in a person.

God bless you all,

I saved it in my files and reprint it without permission.

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"Get a cheap calculator. Just make sure it is capable of figuring to 12 points beyond the decimal point whether or not it displays all these digits.

Find the 12th root of the digit two. Divide 24 (24" scale as an example), by that number, continue to divide each answer by that same factor. That will accurately give you the exact distance from the changer each fret is, and you can take it to its practical limits.

Round off all your calculations to 2 or 3 digits beyond the decimal point.

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Thanks Carl.

[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 04 February 2003 at 05:49 PM.]

Now about the atoms, why atoms?