Steel Guitar Builder

This is very interesting. I have a friend with a small foundry, and I am always making patterns of stuff for him to cast. I had heard of a lost foam technique, but have never tried it myself. Is the foam just regular craft store styrofoam, or is it denser like the building insulation board? Does the...

I've used a similar changer to add lowers to a maverick before. It hinges like an early sho-bud all-pull, like a fingertip and professional, but with fewer parts. A ZB changer works the same way. The bar raises at the top and lowers at the bottom. It would have return springs at the bottom like any ...

The capacitor on my emmons is .047.
If you want a smooth gradual adjustment, use an audio taper pot. If you want a "boo-waah" effect, you may want to try a bigger cap. and a linear taper pot, as the bigger cap will cut more highs, and the linear pot will cut it all with a smaller rotation of the knob.

I think you want a 500K audio taper pot, and I'm not sure what value capacitor to use off the top of my head. I'll try to look at a few guitars and see what they've got and get back too you.

I don't care for a volume knob mounted on the steel, I'd rather use the pedal. However, I have had several steel that had a tone control, and I used it quite a bit on some of them. Most steels with a tone control will also allow you to switch the tone control out of the circuit.

I have a saw that looks a lot like that one. It's a craftsman from Sears. I keep a block of bees wax by the saw, and after every few aluminum cuts I'll rub a little wax on the moving saw blade. I get a lot more use out of my blades since I started doing this.

Well I was a little leary of the guy who was asking about parts, He was emailing from someone elses computer. I wondered why he just didn't ask on the forum, as there are lots of us who could have helped him, if parts were realy what he was after. He seemed to know about steels, I gave him my number...

I had a guy from Penn. contact me about parts. He got my info from this forum. I felt that he was fishing. Now today I found out that a lot of my email contacts, are getting emails "from Me" trying to sell them viagra. I don't have any pills for sale, aqnd I really don't know what to do about this. ...

I've made a few nuts from antlers. They can work pretty good, as long as you stay away from the pithy parts. You don't get as much material for your trouble as you get with a good sized piece of bone though. The antler nuts I've made had sentimental meaning to the instrument owner, that's why I did ...

I posted this on the SGF, in response to someone's question about oversized nut blanks. I thought I'd post it here, just in case any of you had not discovered this source of clean, cheap bone. If you need an odd sized nut blank, and have a bandsaw, go to the pet store, and look through the dog bones...