Kind of a "group hug" moment.

Somebody pass me the Smores™ before the next chorus of Kum-Bay-Yah..

EJL

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• Gary Shepherd
  
• Sierra Session 12
  
• www.16tracks.com
  

It's better this way than in a load of scrap aluminum I suppose, so you'll just have to hang loose knowing that it IS going to happen in a much better fashion than it would've otherwise. The way it's going to be handled doesn't allow for "friends of friends" to poke through, grab and mail out things they find. I've already asked when I forwarded all the emails. That's understandable enough.

Santa Cruz Guitars will be making the pertainant announcements from the best information I've got. If not through representation here, by announcements on their website or answers to emails they get.

I always try to get out of group hugs.. Someone always seems to have a twelve string BJS in their pocket...

EJL

[This message was edited by Eric West on 23 November 2003 at 06:47 PM.]

This second hand, but a pretty close source. I might see the tech involved this weekend and will relay any further news.

Wolfgang Bednarz http://www.wbssteelguitars.com

Now Ray and Pete, you two quit pissin' on each others shoes and get to pickin'.

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HagFan

Starting out, I have all of the above and more. I have a Sierra, I have Emmons and I have a Shobud, I have a GFI, and I have a Carter and I'm getting a BMI. My Sierra is a U12, and I have a Emmons U12 PP and I have a Shobud S12 and I won't go into the rest.

They all make great guitars and each has it's own reason for why they are the best. It's bad when a Steel Guitar Company goes out of business because that hurts the others. The fewer companies there are the more price increase from the remaining companies.

Some guys will go to their grave that if it ain't an Emmons, or Shobud it ain't a guitar, others say if it ain't heavy enough they don't want to fool with it.

For durability standpoint many of you guys don't like Sierra because of it's look. From a mechanical standpoint there is not a steel as mechanically sound.

I took my steels to an Engineer who doesn't play and asked him to listen to them, and then I had him exam them and conclude which one he would buy if he was looking for one.

For mechanics he went with the Sierra, for the weight he went with the Emmons and the GFI and Carter.

For Looks he liked the Emmons but he said he was into the wood type look and my carter nor GFI had wood type mica.

Ok last but least is sound, And I get so tired of hearing this, everybody get's there hair up when you talk about single coil and humbucking pickups.

The Engineer couldn't make a firm decision about which one had the best sound playing through the same amp. hum?

I have also setup 2 Emmons Legrand II steels identical and played them and got a different sound?

My conclusion, no I won't give that but I will offer you a story about Cowboy Eddie Long.

Eddie, who played for Hank Williams Jr. was playing a friends Shobud, and broke both knees on the guitar. He ended up pulling out his U12 Sierra.

Ask Buddy Emmons about his Sierra, ask Joe Wright about his Sierra.

Conclusion,
I don't think it's as much about what you like as it is how much money you can spend.

If all of us shade tree pickers had enough money we would just buy one of each now wouldn't we.

Keep it Going, Sierra we are waiting, go Tom