Well it's finally done. Our new website is called www.mightyfinemusic.com
It features the SS HAWAIIAN steel guitar and has explicit details and dimensions and pictures of everything that went into and makes up this steel guitar.
I want to thank Graham Reid for helping Archie Cox and I construct this website.
Enjoy.
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
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New Website" featuring the "SS HAWAIIAN
Moderator: Brad Bechtel
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Ricky Davis
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Mark Davis
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Great lookin page! The SS Hawaiian is just awesome!!
Any future plans of an 8 or 6 string model? Maybe a less expensive version with chrome instead of the brass and alder or ash painted wood like the old Fenders just all great componets like your great design is.
If your ever in Bakersfield email me Bro gotta check this puppy out.
Any future plans of an 8 or 6 string model? Maybe a less expensive version with chrome instead of the brass and alder or ash painted wood like the old Fenders just all great componets like your great design is.
If your ever in Bakersfield email me Bro gotta check this puppy out.
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Ricky Davis
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Hey brother Mark thanks for the nice comments pal.
As far as other versions of the SS HAWAIIAN.
The main enthusiasium behind going for this project in the first place was I had every kinda Fender steel there was to offer but a 10-string; and Fender didn't make one. Then my partner Archie Cox(also a steel player; and architect) wondered why builders didn't use the highest quality materials for sound.
We found out why(TOO EXPENSIVE)and that's why I wanted this steel. So we designed this 10-string steel with what we as steel players consider to be the best material and dimensions and design and that is what we came up with.
We are not really in the steel guitar building business; but we would like to offer the best sounding steel I have ever heard; to the folks that want only the hightest quality and playability a steel guitar can offer>But it will cost
You cannot manufacture this kinda steel like other companies do; with this kinda design and materials. If we made the SS HAWAIIAN out of cheaper materials than it would not sound like the SS HAWAIIAN; and would sound like any other new steel guitar out there and you can get one of those for half the price.
I finally recorded my SS HAWAIIAN on a CD for a friend last week and it just blew me away at the possibilities in the ammount of different styles of music it can emulate; and it was by far the best sounding steel I have ever heard myself play on tape so far.
We are working on a double-10 version of this design for myself and probably will offer it for those wanting one.
As far as a 8-string or 6-string or what not; it can certainly be done by us; but there won't be that much of a price diffence; because the same materials and labor(which is almost all of the price tag)will be used on any custom made SS HAWAIIAN; but the new owner can always pick out his wood and other than that; all other details are the same and that's what makes this guitar sound far beyond anything I've heard.
Have fun.
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
http://hometown.aol.com/sshawaiian/RickyHomepage.html
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
www.mightyfinemusic.com
sshawaiian@aol.com
As far as other versions of the SS HAWAIIAN.
The main enthusiasium behind going for this project in the first place was I had every kinda Fender steel there was to offer but a 10-string; and Fender didn't make one. Then my partner Archie Cox(also a steel player; and architect) wondered why builders didn't use the highest quality materials for sound.
We found out why(TOO EXPENSIVE)and that's why I wanted this steel. So we designed this 10-string steel with what we as steel players consider to be the best material and dimensions and design and that is what we came up with.
We are not really in the steel guitar building business; but we would like to offer the best sounding steel I have ever heard; to the folks that want only the hightest quality and playability a steel guitar can offer>But it will cost
You cannot manufacture this kinda steel like other companies do; with this kinda design and materials. If we made the SS HAWAIIAN out of cheaper materials than it would not sound like the SS HAWAIIAN; and would sound like any other new steel guitar out there and you can get one of those for half the price.
I finally recorded my SS HAWAIIAN on a CD for a friend last week and it just blew me away at the possibilities in the ammount of different styles of music it can emulate; and it was by far the best sounding steel I have ever heard myself play on tape so far.
We are working on a double-10 version of this design for myself and probably will offer it for those wanting one.
As far as a 8-string or 6-string or what not; it can certainly be done by us; but there won't be that much of a price diffence; because the same materials and labor(which is almost all of the price tag)will be used on any custom made SS HAWAIIAN; but the new owner can always pick out his wood and other than that; all other details are the same and that's what makes this guitar sound far beyond anything I've heard.
Have fun.
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
http://hometown.aol.com/sshawaiian/RickyHomepage.html
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
www.mightyfinemusic.com
sshawaiian@aol.com
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Ricky Davis
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I'm using this particular tuning for my new 10-strings SS HAWAIIAN steel guitar. I keep the same string guages and retune between the two different tunings as the gig style requires. This steel is a perfect 24" scale and any other scale length would be subject to a guage or two up or down per tone.
For the 10-string:
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C6th D6/9 Guage
1) G down 1/2> F# .012p
2) E down whole> D .014p
3) C down 1/2> B .017p
4) A stay same> A .020p
5) G down 1/2> F# .026w
6) E stay same E .030w
7) C up whole> D .036w
Bb up whole> C .038w
9) A stay same> A .042w
10 F up 1/2> F# .054w
</pre></font>
As you can see the C6th tuning has the best of both worlds with the flat7th and sixth tone near the bottom. The D tuning has the 6th tone and 9th tone and flat7th tone in the tuning with the low 3rd and 5th tone at very bottom which is waaaaay cool.
I have experimented with different guages to fight between moving a tone up or down and what it does in it's playability; but I had no problem on this scale length with the guages above and it's my preference of feel anyways. One can use a gauge or two heavier on most of the strings but I wouldn't suggest any lighter.
Here it is for the 8-string:
<font face="monospace" size="3"><pre>
C6th D6/9
1) G F#
2) E D
3) C B
4) A A
5) G F#
6) E E
7) C D
Bb C
</pre></font>
I hope this helps some that were inquiring about some of these tunings and I am finding a huge success so far with these and loving that I don't have to change strings for a single neck Hawaiian steel.
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
http://hometown.aol.com/sshawaiian/RickyHomepage.html
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
www.mightyfinemusic.com
sshawaiian@aol.com
For the 10-string:
<font face="monospace" size="3"><pre>
C6th D6/9 Guage
1) G down 1/2> F# .012p
2) E down whole> D .014p
3) C down 1/2> B .017p
4) A stay same> A .020p
5) G down 1/2> F# .026w
6) E stay same E .030w
7) C up whole> D .036w
Bb up whole> C .038w9) A stay same> A .042w
10 F up 1/2> F# .054w
</pre></font>
As you can see the C6th tuning has the best of both worlds with the flat7th and sixth tone near the bottom. The D tuning has the 6th tone and 9th tone and flat7th tone in the tuning with the low 3rd and 5th tone at very bottom which is waaaaay cool.
I have experimented with different guages to fight between moving a tone up or down and what it does in it's playability; but I had no problem on this scale length with the guages above and it's my preference of feel anyways. One can use a gauge or two heavier on most of the strings but I wouldn't suggest any lighter.
Here it is for the 8-string:
<font face="monospace" size="3"><pre>
C6th D6/9
1) G F#
2) E D
3) C B
4) A A
5) G F#
6) E E
7) C D
Bb C</pre></font>
I hope this helps some that were inquiring about some of these tunings and I am finding a huge success so far with these and loving that I don't have to change strings for a single neck Hawaiian steel.
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
http://hometown.aol.com/sshawaiian/RickyHomepage.html
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
www.mightyfinemusic.com
sshawaiian@aol.com