Steel Guitar Builder

I have stripped down my Fender Artist D-10 for maintenance and find one pivot blade badly worn in three places, the other worn a bit less. For those not familiar with the thing I'll explain. And, by the way, these Fenders are the ones with the ShoBud undercarriage. I'm in UK. The fingers do not pivo...

The note F# in a scale of G is technically higher than the note Gb (which belongs in the scale of Db). Some instruments (particularly in folk music) are tuned to a precise sale. E.G. Northumbrian pipes are tuned so that each note is an exact 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc from the tonic (called "G", but rarely ...

This looks like the retrofit arrangement that was added to some non-pedal guitars in the very early days. The pedal, via a cable, pulled on the relevant string between tuner post and the nut. My gut feeling is that string breakage will be the major problem. Common places for strings to "go" are the ...