A new restoration project with a cool history, I'll update as it goes along

[Lane Gray]

So the other week, I walked into my local music store looking for a particular effects box (either a B9 or C9 Electro Harmonix organizer) and the guy said "here, you're the guy! I've got two pedal steels that don't work. If you don't take them, they're going in the dumpster." I was NOT going to let that happen, so I acquired two old steels.

One was an incomplete 1959 SD8 Wright Custom, which has already found a new home.

The other was a pre-Micro crossbar-style S12 MSA. It was rigged for 7 or 8 pedals but most of them were in the leg tray. MSA said 10018 was built by Bud Carter FOR Bud Carter. Near as I can tell that doesn't add anything to the value, but I think that is cool as hell!
My father-in-law is a retired woodworker who used to make furniture and gun stocks, and said he was delighted to be asked to revive the crazed finish of the birdseye maple cabinet and neck.
I'm going to clean and re-lube the changer and guts and learn how to work on the ZBesque changer, and make it a 5&5 Extended E9th guitar. I'm hoping everything is fine with the Danny Shields 3-row early Crap Trap.
Here's what I started with.
Since I have a customer guitar AND my MonsterBud universal on the bench, this guitar is at dad's getting the finish first. There will be updates, but the only thing I'm doing now is taking my polisher to the other crossbars and other guts bits. The guitar will gleam when I'm done