Keyless pedal steels lets see them

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Keyless pedal steels lets see them

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Built for Zane King Zking headless 10 string four an five pedal steel. The x rods in front with turn buckles makes, this thing rock solid when u use your knee leavers. Pulls on tuner end , release on pickup end. No wrench needed to tune open tuning. Five raise , Five lower
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Zane Becks keyless that he played for several years befor he gave too Zane King. This steel will be treasured buy King family. Zane uses this steel in studio along with other BMIs from time to time . Plays as good as new after Thirty five years.
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Here is my itty bitty Williams S-10.


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Nice Lee how do you like playing keyless steels? Don't you think there is a lot positive things we could all say about them.
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This Zking steel has a complete Emmons all pull changer , Half inch maple top an aprons , an sounds like a Emmons . Guess the changer has a lot too do with Emmons sound. One size tuning wrench for pedals, knees an string changes. Verible adjustment on pedal ball hook up. X brace pedal rod material with turn buckles for rock solid stance.
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Image Toms Keyless Wow!
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. Cowboy Eddie Long's all pull Keyless Twelve string BMI steel
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Well, here's mine - some of you will have seen it before

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A lot of keyless tuners seem to retain the roller nut and pull the string longitudinally with a threaded slider.

As I had no idea how to go about making a roller nut, I built what is really a miniature pull release changer which lives permanently in release mode with the fingers resting on the tuning screws. They have a mechanical advantage of about 5:1 so are very positive and light to tune. Here it is assembled

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and here it is nickel plated and fitted on the guitar

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I don't have to lift the bar to use the open strings - I can just slide right over the end.
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Lee's twin

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Here's the twin to Lee's keyless. Note that I had the stock changer and string hold downs replaced with the new 700's model. The string hold downs are called "top hat".

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Lamar Pedal Steel
3 pedals five knee levers.
Find me a smaller one:)
You do need a wrench to tune but string changes are so easy
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David that Lamar is sure a looker.
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Wow look at Ed Worleys keyless

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Image Look at Ed Worleys new keyless I want one.😍
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I was playing keyless when keyless wasn't cool

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Excel have seat

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Keyless

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My good ole 2000 Excel... :D
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Johnie King wrote:Image Toms Keyless Wow!
Johnie, is that Tom's Anapeg? I'd love to know when he started using it.
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Yes Dan that's one of two Anapegs he owned. My wife an me visited with Rolene Toms wife at the Illinois show last April and said Tom loved them.
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My GFI in the wild last Friday.

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Solid, reliable, and portable.
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Zane Beck an Zane King at St Louis convention

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Zum looks good

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