NGsD one bodyless, one headless

[Woodstove]

Awhile back I posted about trading my Sho-Bud pedal steel for a Duesenberg lap steel. You guys saved me from, at least getting close to, trading my L4C for which I am still grateful. I got the lap steel 2 weeks ago. As you can see it has 2 hand levers, the outermost rises the second string a whole tone and the inner raises the 3rd string 1/2 tone. This can be changed. Other levers can be added but it would definitely interfere with playing. As it is it creates lots of pedal steel voices. It comes open D. It is a wonderful guitar. The pickups are both Humbucker and both can be split in all combinations. Duisenberg claims they have a better
mouse trap for this and the single coil sound is truer to SC than others. All I can say is they sound great, really great.

Now to the headless. While I was at the store I was talking to the salesman about Duesy guitars and one that has a piezo PU. He then grabbed this Kiesel Osiris which has one. I had never heard of the brand. He put it in my hands and I instantly knew it was one of the best necks, actually the best neck, I ever played. I knew it was very flat, 20 degrees and assumed that was part of it. I was very tempted to get it but resisted. I did some fast research and found info, notably from Woody on this forum, that the Kiesel necks are renown. It has vintage sounding "beryllium" PUs in both positions and I knew even in a few minutes it had at least a workable Strat tone and more. I called them back that day and got it. It fits right into some of the songs I have written and is an absolute joy to play, both fingerpicking and with a pick. I just play better on it than my other guitars with this kind of voice. (My Trenier is still, hands down, my favorite!) I hate the tuning mechanism, changing strings is a PIA, but it's a winner. I'm headed to Nashville soon to realize a lifelong dream ,making an album singing my songs with a top producer and his A team players. The Kiesel will fly overhead and be represented. I've been playing the Lap Steel for 2 weeks having only played a PS 30 years ago for one year, but I absolutely love playing it. There's NO WAY I'm playing it on the album with the greatest steel players in the universe flowing like water in Nashville, but it's helping me present ideas for arrangements to the producer. Here's a quick demo I sent him with the Kiesel and a solo on the Duesy (having played it for 3 days at that time you understand).

Dropbox - That's How It Is with no click.mp3 - Simplify your life

[icr]

They both look great. I have never played a Kiesel, but have been interested in them since Allen Holdsworth was playing them.

[Woodstove]

They both look great. I have never played a Kiesel, but have been interested in them since Allen Holdsworth was playing them.

I heard Allen playing his model when I was doing my homework. I think his PUPs sound good. Like the ones in mine, they are not hot rodded for shredding like many of the Kiesel PUPs.

[marcwhy]

[Kiesel is "Carvin," and they've been around since the '40's, making great guitars, basses, amps, etc. for decent prices in Southern California! The two names/companies "broke up" a while back ...]

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

I just wish Kiesel made a headless guitar with fewer frets, so that the neck pup could be "at" the 24th fret.

[Woodstove]

I just wish Kiesel made a headless guitar with fewer frets, so that the neck pup could be "at" the 24th fret.

I hear that. For me, I don't see it as a jazz guitar so I don't mind giving up the tone from the PU being further from the neck. For blues and rock the added frets bring something to the table. I got used to this playing a 24 fret PRS I've had since 1986, but the flatter wider neck on the Kiesel makes this range much more available to me than on the PRS.