thought i would show you guys something fun i am working on!

[Kilby]

Don't worry the pedal steel comment was in jest

An 8 stringer would be nice (is there such a thing as a bass or baritone lapsteel ?)

How about a lyre next they are pretty cool instruments (my son was getting lessons for a while) and there's some easyish plans around

[WezV]

Don't worry the pedal steel comment was in jest

i must admit i looked into it.

i dont fancy a lyre but i have been looking into hurdy gurdy plans - its another mainly mechanical project though.

the other instruments i make occasionally to use up scr@ps are kalimba's and the occasional bull-roarer if i have a scr@p of really nice looking wood or a practice inlay piece that i dont want to chuck.

[badgermark]

If you make a proper kalimba i'll buy that from you! been looking for a good one for a while now.

[WezV]

i wouldnt call them proper ;)    tbh i couldnt do them at a reasonable enough price

[gwEm]

interesting thread. i checked out some of the instruments mentioned. the hurdy gurdy does sound cool i think. however, one big important celebrity hero of mine plays the lyre, and this cannot be ignored:

[HTH AMPS]

a double-neck lapsteel would rule too, one in G and the other in D.

[dave_mc]

very nice! :)

[FELINEGUITARS]

Nice one.

The first gig I went to was Slim Whitman, back in the seventies some time - and I was blown away by this bloke playing a pedal steel (I'd have been 10-11 at the most).

Wasn't at the fairfield halls in Croydon was it?
If so - I was there!
My next door neighbour worked at the Fairfield and we often got given last minute tix if the gig hadnt sold out completely

I saw Suzi Quattro, Wishbone Ash, Sad Cafe and a few other gigs too, as well as occaisional cinema tix when they showed movies there.

[AndyR]

Afraid not Jonathan :D - I'd never even heard of Croydon at that stage!

I saw him at Taunton. Could well be the same tour though - support was a famous (for country at the time) husband wife duo, whose names I cannot remember....  Miki and Griff, that was it! I think the pedal steel guy might have played for them as well.

A little while later we saw George Hamilton IV there as well. My Dad's taste was driving all of this. But I didn't get to see Glen Campbell in Bristol, I was gutted by my omission from the party (in his defence, it was arranged by friends of theirs who hadn't realised that this 12-year-old was seriously up for it and knew about the dates before they all did...)