Bigsby, Clinesmith, Gene Fields and GFI

Hello fans and fellow players,

Bigsby steel guitars are now selling for prices all over the board. I have seen them as high as $40,000 down to as low as $10,000. I have some in stock for very low prices. The reason the prices vary is because I am about the only one I know that can do an original pedal setup on this guitar with the cables and original parts.

This is the only way to have a Bigsby. They can be setup to play very quietly and smooth with very little pedal pressure. We can also set them up to do anything with pedals. We have got two guitars on the Bigsby bench right now having pedal setups installed.

Naturally if you need an extremely complicated pedal setup, the price can be quite a bit higher. A simple pedal setup is one that involves only two pedal pulls and one that doesn’t do a lot of raise and lower. There is no limit to what we can do with pedals. We will always use new aircraft cable and new pulleys. Of course you know this applies to Clinesmith also.

The Clinesmith guitar I endorse whole-heartedly. I have two double tens in my personal guitars and they are personal favorites. They have replaced excellent Sho-Buds in my collection and also replaced the Bigsby. If anybody on this newsletter would like to see both of my guitars, I’ll be glad to get good pictures of both of them. They are the same except one has an aluminum necks and one has wooden necks.

If you happen to have Bigsbys, I sincerely doubt that the pedal setup on it will be correct for you. Don’t worry about buying a Clinesmith with any pedal setup you want on it. If you need to know how to contact Todd Clinesmith, contact him on the internet at www.clinesmithinstruments.com

Many people seem to have really enjoyed the letter from Bruce Zumsteg and I did myself. He’s a fine gentleman and a very brilliant designer. As a matter of fact, he may seriously be the smartest man I know when it comes to building steel guitars in this day and time. I sincerely have much admiration for him. It seems like many of you out there agree with me.

We just got a big shipment of GFI steel guitars in stock so I hope we have anything that any of you could ask for. This seems to be the most prominent and prolific steel guitar that we have had over the years. Like Bruce Zumsteg and Del Mullen, we love and will only deal with the highest caliber folks in the business and Gene Fields definitely rates as high as anybody we’ve ever dealt with.

Like myself, Gene has learned to type with more than one finger at a time, an advantage he has over me, because he still has all his fingers. These men that I’ve mentioned in this newsletter are all presidents of their own steel guitar companies.

I want to remind you about our “Thank God Fan Fair Is Over” and “Father’s Day” double sale. That’s 10 percent off our already discounted prices so you save double.

Ten percent off all new GFI and all used guitars in stock. Free shipping within the 48 continental United States on all guitars. Free shipping within the 48 continental United States and free amp cover on all Peavey Nashville 112 amplifiers.

I want to remind you about our “Thank God Fan Fair Is Over” and “Father’s Day” double sale. That’s 10 percent off our already discounted prices so you save double.

Ten percent off all new GFI and all used guitars in stock. Free shipping within the 48 continental United States on all guitars. Free shipping within the 48 continental United States and free amp cover on all Peavey Nashville 112 amplifiers.

Check out our monthly specials at www.steelguitar.net/monthlyspecials.html and we’ll try to save you a lot of money.

The friend of all bar holders,
Bobbe Seymour
www.steelguitar.net
sales@steelguitar.net
www.youtube.com/bobbeseymour

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1 Response to Bigsby, Clinesmith, Gene Fields and GFI

  1. In 1950, I ordered my four neck, eight stringer with six pedals that I received in April, 1956. It’s been in my possession since that date with no modifications whatsoever and has never seen the inside of a pawn shop. No dings or damage of any nature. This guitar is set up with three necks like Speedy West, one of which also has the Bud Issacs’ tuning/pedals on it. The fourth neck is C6th/A7th. It still has the original case and volume/tone pedal. condition is 10+

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