Steel Guitar Builder

Hey Dave, my mind is running away from me. Di dI ever send you those raise/lower fingers? I honestly cant remember buddy.

@Bent Do you attach your siderails to the end plates? Looking at some of your photographs it looks like you do. In particular I'm referring to this photo: http://steelguitarbuilder.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1153 I'm wondering how you manage to drill and countersink the holes through the end pl...

Hi Your drawing is good. You should have the end plate machined out of a 2X4 piece of 6061 T6 aluminum. You can ut down on some unnecessary weight: The leg hole pieces, make them only slightly longer than what your thread depth requires. I think mine are about .800" Then the area above the changer w...

Go to a Metal Supermarket and get some 3/16"round rod, stainless steel

Interview with Dale Rivard on our feelings about the CCMA cancelling the award for best steel player

http://www.lfpress.com/2016/03/25/pedal ... n-the-face

Great work Paul! I commend you buddy.

Jason, think of them as "final lower tuners" instead. This opened up the door for me when I was wondering. the final lower tuning is what they do in reality... like the final lower on the 2nd string. It makes for a good solid tuning that doesn't wander. As a matter of fact you can tune all your lowe...

I haven't been on in a looong time. Sorry about that. To start with, there was family issues that took up my spare time and thinking. Then after that was getting better, along came several orders for steels and I have been too busy to socialize online. I am currently putting 014 together and after t...

Mac, yep, you have to fiddle with it and find the happy median, like everything else it seems. on pedal steel. Guess I been lucky ...my steels seem to drop right into tune on these pedals/strings. I have this one guy, a real stickler for tuning, been a guitar player for 50 years. But he says he has ...

A couple pics of my latest... 010 . It goes to George Leite. George as recently come on board in BenRom.
He and his staff will be making most of the metal parts on their CNC equipment