Steel Guitar Builder

I use alnico 5 "Vintsteel" 8 string single coil made by Billy Mostyn in Australia. I use these as a pair in stringmaster with a pickup blend pot. The bridge pickup is reverse wound and reverse polarity. Both are wound to about 8.7k ohms. Go too high e.g 10.9k and treble would be less. That's my thou...

You made a beautiful guitar Johan. I see the screws in your picture and I really dont see any need to hide them.

Ophir

Hi guys. I'm just wondering if plugging the holes is really necessary. The plugging will still be slightly noticeable looking at the aprons from the bottom of the guitar. Wires and other bits and pieces are always still visible so how important is it really to plug? Maybe a little plastic wood and a...

Beautiful !!

Yes I have Ron. The folder just doesnt exist on the CD. It's ok though. I found out that the folder "Prints" contains only the 2 files that the author of the CD sent me links to.

I just purchased the CD Lap Steel Design & Construction Version 2.0 CD by R J Gluck. There's some reasonable info there but on the CD it says go to "Prints" Folder and print out files . I able able to get PDF files for most things on the CD but the "Prints" folder in definately not on the CD I purch...

Thanks for your comments Russ and Ross.

I dont have the CD yet Russ but since posting this topic I have spoken with a couple of guys that have the CD and they say the CD is well worth having as a newbie as it opens the door to getting started with Pedal Steel building and with guys like yourself and others here, offering advice and ideas,...

Makes sense

Thanks Ron. I'll certainly be asking questions. There's a lot of very helpful guys here.