Steel Guitar Builder

Generally speaking, pedal steel pickups are wound "hotter" than six-string humbuckers.

Can you do invisible repairs with water based? Is it as flexible as thinner based? Sorry, Bent, I didn't mean to make it sound like I was trying to correct you. There is very little standardization in finish terminology, so I thought I'd clarify a little. Everybody seems to use words like lacquer a...

in fact there is more nastiness to nitro vs regular lacquer. There is no difference between the two. Any true lacquer will be nitrocellulose. Different brands have different formulas that affect thickness (brush v. spray), drying time, gloss (matte to high gloss), and ultimate hardness. I don't use...

I run my dust collector all the time. I repair instruments for a living, so I'm in my shop all day, and I don't want to be breathing that stuff. All of my power tools are connected to it, as well as a sanding table that I made using pegboard for the top. I do my hand sanding there and all of the dus...

Every part of an instrument interacts with every other part, and so every part affects sustain, tone, etc. Various materials and construction techniques affect sustain and tone. The difficulty in comparing string-through to top-loading is not that the effects are subjective (for anything can be meas...