Although Steel and Brass are the norm for most tone bars for lap or pedal steel players, “Steels” as they are known to many. In 2003 the search for creating a “ceramic tone bar”, Doc designed the Poncha Bullet from a hand carved plaster master for the creation of molds and created the world’s first ceramic tone bar. And continued in 2004 with the Rocky Mt Rail Rock-it for those wanting that style of tone bar. Since then, we have moved into creating Stone tone bars of various stone materials to be able to offer you a wider pallet of tones to open a whole world of possibilities at your fingertips.