Steel Guitar Builder

Well done, it looks great, you will probably start building another one next week, its addictive.

It's looking good Jim, thats a lovely piece of wood, and you are finding that the building is addictive, as we all do.

Best regards Ron Mc

I cant speak for others, but, I tend to look around 'ad's' and such for interesting woods.

Ron Mc

I may be wrong, but, on a fretted instrument the note position is fixed, so has the advantage of an adjustable bridge for intonation, whereas on a lap steel the player has the ability to place the bar at the correct sounding position without the restriction of a fret. After all, lapsteels and pedals...

You are really putting a lot of work on this Russ, as I said previously they start off as an idea and evolve as you go along but it is a lot of fun doing so. I havent had much time lately as I'm making a small 'boring head' for my mill as it only takes up to 12mm dia cutters. Best regards Ron Mc :) :)

It looks good to me.

As Russ says, from the point of contact.

Welcome to the forum, I'm sure you will get help and encouragement here.

Best Regards Ron Mc

Hello Jim, that looks very promising, keep us posted.

Regards Ron Mc

Sometimes your original plan does some changing during the process of building the thing, Russ, all my life has been involved in engineering, I have been 'Design and Development engineer' 'Manager R & D Engineering' and I can honestly say that the designs started life as drawings on a 'cigarette pa...