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  Dave Lynas July 18, 2013 at 5:40pm

  Sounds good Turkeychicken. Love your pleasant style and voice. Thanks
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  darryl kernaghan June 20, 2013 at 7:23pm

  pleased to accept tc,love the lost city
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  Dave Lynas May 19, 2013 at 6:56am

  Hey Turkeychicken, that Mike Mulligan vid is awesome. I love the blue light in the cap. He's a good player and a good band. Sure is gratifying to see and hear your work played. Thanks for the show....
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  Tom September 25, 2012 at 4:45pm

  Yes sir reee...INSPIRING !! Already got me a teak wood salad bowl for my version of yours.

  Now the shiny part, but then the work/fun begins :)

   

  Great job. Nice looking and sounds good as well, Thanks for the post !
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  Dave Lynas September 7, 2012 at 9:00pm

  Hey hey Turkeychicken, your videos are nifty. I love the sound out of your VW build. It really projects. Both sound nice. Good job.
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  pete linch June 28, 2012 at 9:16pm

  Did not know that You are in Kokomo. There is a small group of here that build.
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  Dave Lynas June 26, 2012 at 8:33pm

  I got interupted by a lady come to buy a ukulele. She went off with a nice old Silvertone baritone from the 50s. The string spacing on a lap steel is usually wider than standard 6 string. Some players don't like that. I do however. If you are used to 3 and 4 string you will like the wider spacing. Fitting the dots on the pup is what's important. You can get a cool Gretsch pup on ebay for low prices that is made for lap steels. It's Chinese, but i like them. Hope that helps... Oh, and a wood neck is just fine. A lot of the old metal Nationals have wood necks. ... Dave
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  Dave Lynas June 26, 2012 at 8:16pm

  Hey Turkeychicken, I got my body blanked out today up at the garden. I'll post photos tonight. A lap steel's just like a reso guitar only usually shorter. 23" scale or so. I have about 5 relics and 3 i've made laying around. Each has a different scale length. I just use one as a model to take measurements from. You could use any standard length however. The action is real high as a heavy bar is used. No frets needed, just markers of some sort. You have to see them clearly. I tune to a g tuning for country and old time. and I use an A6 tuning for Hawaiian: E,C#,A,F#,E,C# (from high to low). There are usually at least 24 fret markers. The pup is almost alway a bridge pup. Single coil would be old time lap steel. 
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  Ron "Oily" Sprague May 11, 2012 at 7:17am

  Tc,
  
  Do what you gotta do, man. No reason you can't bring in a bud. Turn him on to Townes!
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  Harvey Thompson May 10, 2012 at 1:19pm

  Aiiight!!   (Not on FB, but will be watching for more vids!)