A stunning starter guitar that plays like a pro!

Features

• Professional Grover Tuners

• 3 pedals, 4 knee levers

• Nashville 10 string E9 tuning

• Full-size aluminum string rollers

• Custom Humbucking pickup

• Coloured fretboard position markers

• Brushed finish aluminum neck

• Aluminium pedal rack, also brushed

• Equipped with GHS strings

• Adjustable, pro chromed legs

• Durable leg / pedal rod pouch

• Pedal / lever tuning wrenches

• Hardshell case

• A pretty good guarantee!

This is the updated version of the guitar that I used to stock in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, until Bruce Zumsteg was too busy building his Zumsteel professional guitars and had no time to manufacture the Stage One.  The new manufacturer, Doug Earnest, has made several excellent improvements (see features, above).  The tone and playability are as good as any pro steel I've played!  It's termed a "student" guitar, purely because the copedant can't be altered easily (no bell-cranks, etc.).  It comes with an Emmons set-up.

GREAT TONE!  FANTASTIC VALUE!  A SUPER STEEL!
BUT, don't just take my word for it!

Read what Nashville session player, Michael Douchette posted  on the Steel Guitar Forum, on 31 July 2010:

"Over the years, I've had a Franklin, several push-pull Emmons' and several Sho-Buds.  (Living here in Nashville, that's kinda what was here).  Hands down, the BEST recording guitar I've ever owned is my Zum Stage One.  It has the best presence in a track over any of them; and for me, that is most important."
 Put aside all preconceptions you may have about "student" guitars - this is a "pro" in all ways but one (see above)!

And, from a customer in Sweden, who plays a Fessenden D-10:
... soundwise, (the Stage One) is comparable to the Fessenden!  It only weighs 18Kg, (the Fessenden weighs 35kg)! ... I am very pleased with my Stage One Pedal Steel Guitar and can recommend it to anyone, beginner or pro. It's a well-built, good-sounding, light-weight and good-looking pedal steel. - AE, Sweden.

And, from a customer in England, who played an Emmons LeGrande D-10 for 30 years:
... this is a grand little guitar - with a very good spec of 3 pedals and four levers.  It takes a little getting used to size-wise after a twin neck - but it delivers the E9th goods!  For a student guitar, the finish and quality are first-rate - adjustable legs, quality head, tuning pegs and rollers.  Add to this a great pick-up with a tone to match.  I'm really pleased! AP, East Anglia.
  
In addition ...
CHECK OUT THE MANY OTHER POSITIVE COMMENTS ON THE US STEEL GUITAR FORUM!

£1399
Currently out of stock!

The "customisable" Stage One!

Features

The so-called "student" Stage One S10 pedal steel guitar has graduated!  The Encore is a fully-fledged professional E9th pedal steel guitar, with a changeable undercarriage!  It comes with an Emmons set-up, but it is easily converted to an E9th Day set-up.  Weighing less than 19 kg in its solid case, this is a truly portable instrument.  

GREAT TONE!  FANTASTIC VALUE!  A SUPER STEEL!
... and now able to be set up to suit you!

All the incredibly positive comments about the standard Stage One apply to this new guitar, plus many more, mostly because it can be set up to suit you!

In addition ...
CHECK OUT THE MANY POSITIVE COMMENTS ON THE US STEEL GUITAR FORUM!

£1999
Currently out of stock!

Gretsch 5700 Electromatic, tobacco finish

Currently IN stock!

Gretsch 5700 Electromatic

. solid mahogany
. 22.5-in scale length
. 1.75-in nut length
. single-coil pick-up

It's good to receive comments like this from time to time!  GH

A Fantastic chance to buy a truly vintage

Between 1976 and 1985, I owned a D11 (identical colour scheme and finish) version of the above guitar.  It had 8 pedals and 6 knee-levers.  Here is a well-known and popular BBC TV clip, from a 1984 "Sing Country" programme, featuring Emmylou Harris, Albert Lee, Pete Wingfield and my ZB D11!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEiQOSsR9v0.   It includes her lovely version of the song "Together Again"

(The steel solo comes at about 22 mins and 40 secs into the clip).

I hope the clip convinces you that a ZB has "that" sound!  If not, it's worth the time, to listen to Emmylou anyway!

I found another similar steel on the web that was for sale last year on ebay - it sold for $4850!
  
In addition ...
CHECK OUT THE MANY OTHER POSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT ZB GUITARS ON THE US STEEL GUITAR FORUM!

comments such as:
... I just picked up a 70 model D10 and having played every major brand, including a Push pull, this guitar has the best sound I have ever had. It would have to go a long way to beat my Sho bud but I think it does ...

In or around 1973 or 74, I was playing in St. Louis at what I think was one of Scotty's early conventions, where I met Bill Simms at the ZB booth. I was quite taken with the guitars they were displaying, especially a beautiful honey colored D-10 with pearloid inlay and machine jeweled endplates, pedal bar and knee levers. Long story short, Bill and I became friends and I received the guitar a week later with the added knee levers I requested. What a guitar. I played the guitar for only a short time, perhaps a year and got side tracked to something else, as we steel players often do. I did send the guitar back to the factory in Arizona with a note of explanation. I often wonder where that guitar is and what ever happened to the nice Mr. Simms.
T.W. (this is Tommy White)!

This fabulous guitar is just £1200!
(including 2 custom-built flight cases)