Steel Guitar Builder

I use temp screws the same thread size as the neck screws and cut the head off and round off the tip like a nail ,...then screw it in and let the tip stick out 1/16" to 1/8" then place and mesure the neck to make sure it is in the right place then give it a little tap on top of the neck on all place...

It depends on your Copedent setup...you'll probably need atleast 20 bellcranks for 4x5 setup
here's one of my Copedent setup.

bluesteel wrote:I found myself a hollow mill so I can turn round ends on square cross-shafts,!

I was looking for a hollow mill also... but didn't know what size it should be or the type, where did you get yours?... and what's the size and type?.

totally gorgeous Pat. I'm starting my own build now, and contemplating round bar vs Square. Round provides less manufacturing problems. how do you find it? Hi Jason, To your question about round vs square shaft ...from my experience I had more slipperage problems with aluminum round vs metal, alumi...

Here's a youtube link of our new band promotion video, the introduction is in French...English version will come soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir0yPVz-PN0

Hi y'all, been a long time ... :P I finaly finished my #5 last summer and I was very busy playing gigs and working in the studio and on top of that... I started a new traditional classic country music 5 piece band, that is why it took this long to post,...and maybe a little too lazy too :roll: :lol:...

Here's a picture showing the birds eye maple...the lighting in my shop is very bright and makes it hard to take good pictures, once the guitar finished I will take some pics outside which will be better.

Some more pics of the undercarriage

I'm gonna get in trouble for this, but Pat, I was surprised you did it this way. I was thinking, stain it first, then put the inlay in. But there was lovely grain in that maple, and the stain seems to hide it the pictures didn't came out as good and it doesn't show the birds eye very well...but I c...

Here's two more pictures