Steel Guitar Builder

This my sound stupid, but make sure your cord that you are using from the pickup to the amp is a good one. I have been expermenting with Alumitone type pickups and found my cord had a bad ground on one of the plugs. I had changed one end of this cord before, and when I changed it back I didn't get i...

Shobud, you should go to YouTube and watch mrpete222, and myfordboy, they both have a lot of information that you can use. Read what they are about and watch what interest's you. Actually you should watch a lot of them, you cannot learn too much about sand casting. If you are planning to machine aft...

Dave, there is not much left to say after all the other comments but just another BEAUTIFUL job well done. And as for your comment about more pictures being boring, not so, keep them coming, I think everyone else will agree.


Mike

Bent, my friend, like fine wine, you are getting better with age! Just stunning!!!!! By the way, just whom is that old gizzer in that picture???? Ha Ha Ha.
Just Beautiful Bent...... Mike

Bent, yep Happy Birthday from me to, and many more to both of us, mine is in 22 days, I be 68 on the 24th........Mike

Bent, of course she is going to be a "Bute Clark" as he says in the movie... He He He.. Mike

Guys, one thing about it is if you have a piece you want to duplicate you can do that. If it is not a flat side piece, the you have to figure out how to make a holder for the piece you want to make. Bent, you remember some pictures I sent you that had a pedal, like a ShoBud but with a flat top. you ...

Dave, another masterpiece on it's way.... just beautiful..... Mike

Ron, I don't want to hijack this thread, but I think what we are doing is letting other people interested to read this stuff. I have probably cast aluminum for about 25 years on and off. Got most of my instructions in high school in shop class, and my Dad worked at a local foundry, so I got a veriet...

Bent, maybe another way to avoid shrinking would be to make the top side of your flask deeper so it would hold more sand then after assembling the flask back together you could cut a trench connected to your pouring hole to hold aluminum outside the mould to take the shrinking. you would have to mel...