Rebel and Ricky have a site with a LOT of non pedal tabs for solos, with audio. The Steel guitar forum has a forum expressly for non pedal, and some real heavy weights. And the 6th tuning gives you a lot of cool stuff on the lower strings you won't get with open G. That is my preference, it is actually the same on top as open G or A, just higher. Most of the instruction stuff you will find (Cindy Cashdollor for example) use the G on top. Now, there are 2 common C6 tunings, the one with the E on top, and the one with the G. I use C6, and you could use the top 6 strings of C6. Open G or A, which will be familiar if you have ever played slide in open tuning. With 6 strings (all my other steels are 8 string), there are a couple good choices. I have an early 60s Supro, my first steel. You really just have to decouple the string termination from the bridge.Īnyway, not a huge problem, but it does come up. The issue being the one-piece hardware with bridge and string termination relying on four wood screws to hold the intonation and string to pickup geometry. In retrospect I think I could have done better sawing off the end of the plate where the strings terminate and just screwing that down. My main old Supro lap had the “oval hole string tension drift”, I wound up filling the holes, squaring the plate back up, and replacing the back two screws with threaded bolts all the way thru the body with big-ass nuts recessed on the bottom of the guitar to tension the bridge down. You can usually see misalignment on the top, a little shadow of where the plate used to be. When the plate tilts you wreck the geometry of the bridge for intonation and spoil the alignment of the strings over the very tiny, very sensitive pole pieces. If you find an old steel that’s been sitting in some high bass tuning with heavy strings for decades, you might also find the string tension has ovaled the holes for the wood screws and the the whole plate tilts and pulls forward. One more thing about those pickup mounting plates I consider a design flaw after 50 or 60 years is the strings terminate in the same plate as the bridge and PU. I’m one of those guys who likes to go around and tighten hardware screws on old guitars “just to check” and the same torque that sets the wood screws nice can bust the head off the machine screws, so watch it! The front two are bolts threaded into the mounting plate, you tighten those down too much and you’ll snap the heads off. You can torque away to your hearts content on those, you’ll just strip out the wood. The back two are wood screws, they go thru the mounting plate into the body. One more thing about the weirdo pickup as potential problem area, there’s four Phillips head’s in the top of the keeper plate, over the coil.
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