Derby pedal steels ??

Greg Lambert · Post by **Greg Lambert** » 9 Jan 2021 6:43 pm

Mines a D10 around a 1992 and the only one that I have seen with George L's in script on the right hand side of the
guitar as your facing it.

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 9 Jan 2021 7:41 pm

The D10 I owned was the one that got away. I stated in another post that my D10 LeGrande is my all time favorite axe, but this thread reminded about the Derby—-it was a ( slightly) better sounding guitar.

Bill Lowe · Post by **Bill Lowe** » 10 Jan 2021 7:38 am

https://youtu.be/1bCIFeaTwwc

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 10 Jan 2021 8:02 am

I wanted to buy the company, but I was so disconnected that Charlie had passed 5 years earlier than the time I talked with his wife. That’s how much I believed in the standard product. I had some ideas and sketches for some proposed expansion of the product line, but of course, it never was to be.

Dick Sexton · Post by **Dick Sexton** » 10 Jan 2021 9:12 am

Terry Crisp really made that Derby sing. Love that solo!

Marty, you would have made a great builder of Derby Steels and could not have picked a more deserving steel line then the Derby to continued it's legacy.

Your story sounds much like mine, I picked up my SD10 from a fellow in Kentucky and was headed home in Ohio when I stopped by Charlies shop & home, but found no one there. I later learned that he was in the hospital and sometime later passed. I so wanted to meet him and talk about the wonderful instrument I had just bought.

I've since worked on many Derbys and always found them to be straight forward, if not easy, to mod or repair. Charlie for sure built one of the best out there.

Hope you well and safe...

Richard Alderson · Post by **Richard Alderson** » 10 Jan 2021 9:50 am

Here's another picture of #072 - Is this the one from the video too? Can't see the front, but everything else matches up.

Brett Crisp · Post by **Brett Crisp** » 10 Jan 2021 10:23 am

Richard, no that's not the guitar in the Reba video.
It was a burgundy colored guitar. Terry actually despised that guitar because it wouldn't stay in tune. The solo you see in the video is actually an overdub in the studio after the live performance. He told me he had messed it up live due to that guitar coming out of tune. He said that was the only guitar he got from Charlie that ever had issues. The rest of them were great. I actually got to play several of his derby guitars over the years and they all were killer. He let me have one years ago. Still got it and it has a tone unlike any other one I've played. Serial number 0095.

Brett Crisp · Post by **Brett Crisp** » 10 Jan 2021 10:25 am

This is 0095

Richard Alderson · Post by **Richard Alderson** » 10 Jan 2021 10:32 am

Greetings Brett ! Thanks for the info ! Nice music studio too; Thanks for the pik of #095.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 10 Jan 2021 12:11 pm

Richard Alderson wrote:Here's another picture of #072 - Is this the one from the video too? Can't see the front, but everything else matches up.

Richard. That's the guitar I referred to on pg.1 and posted a partial polaroid of that I used to own. It was Terry's studio guitar at one time according to Charlie.

I cut out the Derby logo on the rear from a brochure and taped it on with clear tape. I'm surprised to see it's still on there.

Concerning the George L's logo Greg referred to on the left end of his guitar, Charlie was a dealer and user of George L's string. Those are just decals that he stuck on all of his guitars for a time.

Larry Moore · Post by **Larry Moore** » 13 Jan 2021 2:55 pm

I have owned 2 different Derby a SD-10 4-5 & a D-10 8-8
The D-10 is Sn # 027 formally owned by Boogie Sherrard
I love the Derby Steel as much as I love the Emmons Le Grande ll.
Here a couple of pictures of old # 027
Larry

Scott Hiestand · Post by **Scott Hiestand** » 13 Jan 2021 3:37 pm

Wow. This is now the 4th logo I’ve seen on the front of Derbys (being number #27, I also assume the first). And check out the all-white fret markers! Really cool, Larry!

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 18 Jan 2021 10:06 am

I own # 421 a black 2008 D10 with 9&7. Bought new.
Its a great steel

Richard Alderson · Post by **Richard Alderson** » 24 Jan 2021 9:33 am

Going through earlier threads I found this. Here's is the first Derby ever built.

Now you know !

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 24 Jan 2021 10:05 am

Wonder if his patented changer finger design was used from the beginning...

Steven Black · Post by **Steven Black** » 10 Feb 2023 6:31 pm

Will Charlie Stepp's son start building them again?
Just curious.

Marc Muller · Post by **Marc Muller** » 10 May 2023 12:08 pm

Taken last weekend at the Hamilton in DC. My daughter in background holding my guitar.

Johnie King · Post by **Johnie King** » 18 May 2023 12:53 pm

Here’s my Derby .
Available here at my shop in Nashville.

Randy Major · Post by **Randy Major** » 21 May 2025 10:40 am

Talk about late to the party. I just bought a Derby SD10 4 x 4 from Steve (Stove) Nelson. He aet it up with the 4th pedal lowering the 5 and the KLs doing a few things different than I was use to. I played an Emmons SD10 PP for 30 years. This guitar has real similar action and might be a little brighter, Steve put a different pickup on it. I think it's probably lighter than the Emmons and at my age, that matters.

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