Steel Guitar Builder

Now, that is a wonderful piece-of-art; such a wonderful shape and overall workmanship! I only wonder why you put the output on the backside; wouldn't it have been better to place it either at the front or aside, close to the control console? And the black holes, is one of them meant to place your to...

Hi guys, One of the reasons that I am glad to be Dutch is because many great steelplayers coming from the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, came to Holland to spend their musical lives here. The greatest of them all are, imo that is, Rudi Wairata, and directly behind him, George de Fretes. Please li...

Hi Allan, As I am intending to have my own (26" scalelength) Double 8 Stringmaster built by Fern, a company here in The Netherlands, I was wondering if you ever succeeded in building one your own. I am desperately searching for good drawings which, in combination with some pics to find on the intern...

Hello Paul, That's a great initiative! I followed Xavier's project intensely, looking each and every day for new pictures. From the start I felt that this project would turn out as a success, and so it did, right? So, Xavier, please let us hear what your instrument, and yourself, are sounding like. ...

Here I am again; I decided not to reconstruct a whole new body; instead I fit all parts together, and now I have a beautiful instrument with Rickenbacker parts that plays and sounds very well. Does anyone have some tunings for a tenstring lapsteel? All inputs are appreciated a lot! Pictures will fol...

Hi guys, Anybody out there got an original Rickenbacker JB 10? This afternoon I am gonna collect a battered jb 10. However, the wooden console has been replaced for an aluminium housing. I want to bring the old lady back into her former glory, so I need to have detailed pics and dimensions. Also I'd...

... and three pics more. Two pictures of both guitars together; maybe you can tell the differences.

Best, Harry

Hi everyone, Here are some pics of my second Canal House lapsteel. This one has got a few different features: headstock was brought down to the higher part of the guitar, making tuning a lot easier string topload instead of strings-through-body; no difference in sustain and a new tuning: B D# F# A C...

Hi Steelface, Because of the fact that the oak veneer would crumble asa I put a saw on it, I decided to just mark the positions with a black pen; simple but effective again. In the meantime I built a second guitar almost exactly the same like the first one, for this one using this tuning from low to...

Hi Ross,

Again, my compliments! I am looking forward to your next projects, so keep us posted!

Best regards,
Harry

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