i take it you are a lead guitarist.
i never stated fact that the brass rail came from pedal steel manufacture. i stated that i used facts to back up my assertion that it could have.
so far, you have not backed up yours with anything but mentioning some guitar names and sitting on a very impressive collection of other peoples work. since your argument seems to revolve around the age old socratic method of "because i say so", i guess we'll just have to take your word for it that moseley was in no way influenced by pedal steel guitars or bigsby, or anything for that matter. it's all just coincidence. fascinating take on the world, i must say.
but you do seem to like to make snide and smarmy logical jumps. ergo, i guess the german carve was just something he pulled out of his butt and had nothing to do with the time he spent at rickenbacker.
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I have yet to see an analog to inlaying a hunk of brass in the neck of a guitar in the pedal steel world.
why don't you look at a pedal steel guitar. you will notice that the overwhelming majority of them made for the last 60 years had aluminum necks. if you understood why that is, you might understand my thought process.
now, tell us how your amps go to eleven.