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Topic: ZB Pedal Steel Guitars - Please help!
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Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 06 December 2006 08:43 PM
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Hey Duncan the guitar arrived yesterday, man is it beautiful! As hard as UPS tried the only damage they could do to it is breaking off the top of one of the tuners... I hate UPS! |
Casey Lowmiller
Member From: Wichita, Ks
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posted 06 December 2006 08:55 PM
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3 simple questions.Does anyone know if a ZB pickup can fit into a Carter Starter? If so, how hard would it be to get it to fit & work? Finally, does anyone have a ZB pickup sale or know where one is??? Thanks, Casey ------------------
Known Coast to Coast as
"The Man with The Plan" Carter-Starter, Fender Pedal 800, Fender Champion, Guyatone Double-neck, a cheap Artisan & a Homemade Double-neck!
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Ben Elder
Member From: La Crescenta, California, USA
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posted 06 December 2006 11:14 PM
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Maybe you could ask Bobbe Seymour to send you his 10/26/06 newsletter. |
Duncan Hodge
Member From: DeLand, FL USA
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posted 07 December 2006 06:21 AM
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I'm so sorry Joe. I sent Greg a set of Grover Rotomatics to replace any that were coming apart. I hope that he sent a couple of extra ones. If there is anything I can do to help fix this, yet another, UPS screwup let me know.
Duncan[This message was edited by Duncan Hodge on 07 December 2006 at 07:25 AM.] |
Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 08 December 2006 09:23 AM
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No sweat Duncan, I'm sure I can find one in someones junk box around town. Great guitar man! Here's a question for all of you ZB owners... my '68 has metal tubes inside of the top portion of the legs to stabilize, did they come with these originaly? |
Casey Lowmiller
Member From: Wichita, Ks
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posted 08 December 2006 02:18 PM
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Ben,Is your response directed at me...or someone else??? |
Ben Elder
Member From: La Crescenta, California, USA
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posted 08 December 2006 09:49 PM
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Casey--si. I don't profess to know anything (except not to argue with Bobbe), but I was trying illuminate a relevant, clear and forthright treatise. (And one, as in Jeopardy, where the answer came before the question.) I almost got cleanly in and out of this topic without yiedling to the temptation to lob in an ill-considered simile involving a 454 under the hood of a Buick Skylark or allusions to attempts at prying objects out of ZB loyalists' cold, dead fingers. Ah, well. (I can forward it to you, but, there I go again, usurping Bobbe's place in the spotlight.) |
Kevin Hatton
Member From: Amherst, N.Y.
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posted 12 December 2006 10:14 AM
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I just got finished with Harry Hatterer's #1086 1968. I put adjustable knee levers on and rearranged the copedant. The guitar is in original condition. Fantastic Zane Beck built ZB. This guitar was bought from Ted solesky who took orders for ZB. Its nice to see an original in this condition.[This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 12 December 2006 at 10:16 AM.] |
Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 12 December 2006 10:23 AM
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Let's see some pics! |
Casey Lowmiller
Member From: Wichita, Ks
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posted 12 December 2006 03:36 PM
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Ben,If I could find a nice single-neck ZB Custom for a price I could afford, I would buy it & just sell my Carter-Starter. Everytime I listen to Tom Brumley play, I realize that that is the ultimate tone/sound. His stuff on the Don Rich Anthology C.D. might just be the ultimate!!! I passed onetime on a ZB Custom that was 3X2 E9th & I shouldn't have. Instead, I bought a Carter-Starter & the sound just ain't there...and probably never will be. I'm hoping that if I can find a pickup & install it in the C-S, perhaps I can get kinda close to the sound...it's probably a longshot I'm sure. If anyone knows where an available decent playing single neck ZB is, I would love to hear from them. I don't care what it looks like...it just has to have that sound!!! Casey ------------------
Known Coast to Coast as
"The Man with The Plan" Carter-Starter, Fender Pedal 800, Fender Champion, Guyatone Double-neck, a cheap Artisan & a Homemade Double-neck!
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Ben Elder
Member From: La Crescenta, California, USA
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posted 12 December 2006 04:09 PM
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Casey--check your email.(P.S. It AIN'T the pickups...) |
Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 12 December 2006 10:51 PM
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Greg Jones just flatout rules!!!
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Larry Chung
Member From: San Francisco, CA, USA
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posted 13 December 2006 08:29 AM
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Hey Joe:Yah-bah-dah-bah-doo!!! Great looking ZB and Greg is da man, fer sure. Thanks for posting the pics-
ZBest,
LC |
Danny Williams
Member From: Oregon, USA
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posted 13 December 2006 12:05 PM
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I have a D-11 ZB with 8&5. It's just like the one Tom Brumley used with Buck for a while. I am a Winter Texan and the steel is in Gardnerville, Nv. I wont be home until April of 2007 to give you any more info. on it. I'd sell it if the price was right. Any information I can provide you with is free once I get back to the guitar and have a look at it. Danny Williams |
Danny Williams
Member From: Oregon, USA
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posted 13 December 2006 12:07 PM
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I have a D-11 ZB with 8&5. It's just like the one Tom Brumley used with Buck for a while. I am a Winter Texan and the steel is in Gardnerville, Nv. I wont be home until April of 2007 to give you any more info. on it. I'd sell it if the price was right. Any information I can provide you with is free once I get back to the guitar and have a look at it. Danny Williams |
Pat Kelly
Member From: Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia
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posted 13 December 2006 05:39 PM
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Wow! Information is free. |
Duncan Hodge
Member From: DeLand, FL USA
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posted 16 December 2006 03:22 PM
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Joe,
That can't be the ZB that I sent to you...could it? I don't remember mine looking that pretty. If it is my old one I obviously was having a "momentary lapse of reason" and you should send it back immediately.
In all honesty, I really hope that you enjoy it and play it often. It probably is the best sounding steel that I have ever heard, although my new one is in the running. I wish I could have kept it and sold my SD-10 to make the deal on my Fulawka, but it was not to be. Again, sorry about the UPS screwup. If I ever get around to changing the tuners on my red ZB to Grovers, and I hope that will happen soon, I'll send you one.
Remember, it's my turn to buy a steel from you in 2008.
Duncan[This message was edited by Duncan Hodge on 16 December 2006 at 03:23 PM.] |
Danny Williams
Member From: Oregon, USA
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posted 16 December 2006 07:15 PM
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Thanks Pat! I usually express myself a little more clearly when I communicate with others. Info. is always free on this site. But the guitar costs a little more. Good point.Danny |
Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 19 December 2006 09:27 AM
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Hey Duncan, well I felt really bad for buying your guitar, so i shipped it back to you yesterday... UPS said it should arrive on the 5th of never, you're gonna have to pry this one out of my dead grasp! As far as selling you another guitar in 2008, all I can say its don't go eyeballin' my guitars! Ha, have a great holiday and don't worry, I'm takin' real good care of her! |
Larry Behm
Member From: Oregon City, Oregon
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posted 19 December 2006 05:25 PM
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I had a blue one like the guitar above but it had been jeweled everywhere, it is still in Portland, but I do not think the owners playes it very much or at all, should see about getting it back.Larry Behm |
Larry Behm
Member From: Oregon City, Oregon
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posted 19 December 2006 05:26 PM
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Wow 1300 posts, who would have thunk it.Larry Behm |
Lyle Clary
Member From: Decatur, Illinois, USA
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posted 19 December 2006 05:34 PM
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Bobbe Seymour had a ZB SD10 about the middle of October. Where it is now , I have no idea. |
Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 21 December 2006 01:49 PM
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Is there a trick to changing strings on a ZB? My 69 is a complete pain to change the strings on, keeping the string on the pin while winding the string sucks. Thanks. |
John Roche
Member From: England
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posted 21 December 2006 02:14 PM
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I use a piece of wood that jams behind the pin , this holds the ballend in place while you change the string ,very simple |
Brendan Mitchell
Member From: Melbourne Australia
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posted 21 December 2006 05:09 PM
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That's a nice simple solution to a very annoying problem John , I have also struggled with this . Thankyou .
Brendan |
B. Greg Jones
Member From: London, KY USA
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posted 21 December 2006 07:39 PM
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You can aslo use a piece of styrofoam that they use for corners to ship amplifiers in. I just cut them into a wedge with a razor knife. Handy to have for sure. My Gosh Joe!!! You got them strings worn out already!!! LOL Greg |
Lyle Clary
Member From: Decatur, Illinois, USA
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posted 22 December 2006 09:14 AM
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I am confused. The preceeding pictures of a blue D-10 look almost exactly like my 1969 serial 0154 Bakersfield. Whose is it and what serial number? Thanks.------------------
2006 Zum D10 8x8,1969 ZB Custom D10, BMI S10, 1981 Peavy Musician Mark III, 15 Inch Black Widow, custom enclosure Behringer VAMP2 modeler |
Lyle Clary
Member From: Decatur, Illinois, USA
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posted 22 December 2006 09:15 AM
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I am confused. The preceeding pictures of a blue D-10 look almost exactly like my 1969 serial 0154 Bakersfield. Whose is it and what serial number? Thanks.------------------
2006 Zum D10 8x8,1969 ZB Custom D10, BMI S10, 1981 Peavy Musician Mark III, 15 Inch Black Widow, custom enclosure Behringer VAMP2 modeler |
Joe A. Camacho
Member From: San Diego, CA
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posted 22 December 2006 10:08 AM
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Hey Greg, I go through strings pretty quick, the plain ones are great for slicing cheese! |
Duncan Hodge
Member From: DeLand, FL USA
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posted 22 December 2006 11:44 AM
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Hello Lyle, I believe that the blue one that you see in the recent pictures is #0127. Than is if my seriously damaged memory and judgement center are operating within normal limits.
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