Gretsch Lap Steel and Magnatone amp - Shaun Toman

Here's my Gretsch lap steel through the Magnatone model 280.

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Music

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• lap
• steel
• junior
• brown
• magnatone
• gilmour
• slide
• guitar
• pedal
• stee
• gretsch

[rockabillyshaun]

yea the new one's are made in china, and they're cheap. The one i've got is a pre fender made in Korea and its actually pretty nice

[theturdreich12]

you have loadsa guitars, but all you know is 3 chords

[rockabillyshaun]

yea why would you need anymore then 3 chords?

[Fretkillr]

He does not mention the pedals which are an important part of the sound. There's a compressor pedal.

[rangider]

Do you think you could do a demo of the gretsch through the fender?

[rangider]

Hey what was your tuning for this?

[Guitarbque]

Great tones!!



[fngrpkn06]

Niiiiice!

[newpixeldude]

Great playing!!

[Ahrod56]

Very good amp!!!

[bluesmann8]

@hammill444 from my searches, there's no inbetween models.

so its either get a cheap one and fix it here and there or go with something in the 800 on up range. vintage ones are expensive too. If i had it to do over again , i'd get the airline and fix it up. WD has a good set of tuners for about 35 bucks. you can get a used compressor on ebay for about the same. if its your main instrument, buy a real good one. cry once and be done with it.

[hammill444]

@bluesmann8 Thanks for the response. I have checked out the Eastwood Airline as well. Not as many reviews, but from those I contacted, the tuners are every bit as shaky--- in fact, in several cases the plastic knobs cracked right off. Everyone I talk to says to go for a " vintage" one on ebay. However, given I can't get my hands on it, I don't have any reason to suspect they'd be any different tuning wise. Perhaps a better pickup-- but just as frustrating otherwise. Hard to make any choice...

[bluesmann8]

@hammill444 check out the airline for about the same price.. its got a regular guitar hardtail type bridge. humbucking pickup and the tuners look to be shallers.the gretsch plugged direct in to a tube or solid state amp is weak. the tuners like i said are bad. there's a 1/4" of play between up and down.. i put a set of WD tuners on mine and that fixed the tuning problems.. the body is made of luan cheap cheap cheap! think dan electro/silvertone

[hammill444]

@bluesmann8 Well, I think you might have just successfully talked me out of buying one of the new- post Fender Gretsch lap steels. The reviews are just too mixed. Unfortunately, there's just little else to buy - save for Eastwood, which has some shaky reviews of its own-at that price point.