https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:01:00 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-317134 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:33:58 +0000
I also have one of the other lap steels linked above. It's not bad, but the SX one Rondo sells is much nicer overall.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-317134 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-317112 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:38:00 +0000 http://cooldiscountinstruments.com/shop/Electric-Guitar-Lap-Steel-Guitars/c105_120/p1125/Black-Lap-Steel-Guitar-Electric-6-String-Pedal-Slide/product_info.html The scale length is very short, only 20.75" while the shortest of the 'grown-ups' are 22.5".]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Steinar Gregertsen https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-317112 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-317108 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:55:23 +0000 http://cooldiscountinstruments.com/shop/Electric-Guitar-Lap-Steel-Guitars/c105_120/p1125/Black-Lap-Steel-Guitar-Electric-6-String-Pedal-Slide/product_info.html]]> Slide and Alternate tunings warder348 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-317108 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316880 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:03:57 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings warder348 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316880 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316774 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:36:00 +0000
I can't do it, that's the plain and simple truth. My little finger is so bent it makes Gary Glitter look straight....it's been broken so many times I've lost count. Here's a pic....this was taken just after I severed a tendon in the back of my left (fretting) hand, I didn't think I'd ever be able to pick up a guitar again. Couldn't bend the middle finger at all - it took about a month, after getting the plaster off, to play even simple chords...E, D and A. Couldn't play slide at all - hand was so swollen it just wouldn't fit over my little finger. Then again, it never would - even before that particular accident. You can see from this pic how bent the knuckle is.....



So I had to re-group. After severing that tendon, and after a month in plaster, I virtually had to learn guitar all over again - thought it'd take years, but I was SO determined that a little thing like that wasn't going to put me off, it took me about a month to get back to normal. Or whatever passes for normal. Whatever - I just wasn't going to let it beat me.

I'm a better guitarist now, two years later - that determination came in handy. I was NOT going to be beaten by a trivial little thing like a severed tendon! The bent pinky, on the other hand, has severely handicapped my slide playing - I can not fit a slide over my pinky with any degree of comfort, no-how, no way! I have to use a slide over my ring finger....

But again, that's okay. I've learned to fret certain chords with my middle and pinky, rather than middle and ring, fingers when playing in an open tuning - that pinky's now a lot more mobile with constant exercise! I don't think I'll ever be able to buy a slide that'll fit my pinky....but then again, I know my limitations, I'll get one (soon) for my ring finger. (Are you ready, Ian McWee? It's one of your Diamond slides I lust after....)

To sum up - since the accident, my left - fretting - hand's better than it's ever been. Lots of hard work and practise gone into that - hell, I can even use the "dead" pinky on the occasional note if I happen to do a solo. But using a slide on the pinky? Out of the question - it might be able to move these days, but it sure as hell hasn't got any feeling. So slide guitar, for me, will be forever restricted to my ring finger. I can live with that - I'm going to have to live with that! I'll never be the next Ry Cooder or George Thorogood - but as long as I can get a RECOGNISABLE tune out of the guitar playing slide, I'll settle for being ME!

Just keep playing - it'll come together in time. Trust me, one day it'll all start to make sense! And hey, how good was Django Reinhardt? he had two working fingers on his fretting hand - he didn't do too badly! As Clint Eastwood said in "Heartbreak Ridge - "You adapt. You overcome. You improvise."

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316774 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316770 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:55:42 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316770 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316764 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:39:01 +0000 Here's a totally amazing video of him playing, with close ups of his steel bar equipped leather cuff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IrSq1rOoL4]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Steinar Gregertsen https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316764 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316763 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:58:54 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316763 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316761 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:45:26 +0000
I've often thought about what I'd do if I lost something.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings tinsmith https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316761 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316759 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:07:58 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/rondo-lap-steel/paged/2/#post-316759