Steel Guitar Builder

Bent, the cut was 1/8" deep by 1/4" wide with a standard router bit and no lubrication and there was hardly any heat :) Bent said= Please be careful. Remember in essence, you have a wood router that you are pushing at aluminum. the hard rock maple i have is almost as hard as aluminum if not more and...

Here's my milling machine all painted black and made a video testing the machine :) , i'm milling a block of aluminum with a only a 1/4" normal router bit and cutting at about 1/8" , i was pushing it a little fast cause i wanted to see how it would hold :roll: ...it seems to work pretty with just a ...

Hi Wayne, i used maple on my last mica PSG, i like hard rock maple cause it keeps the screw nice and tight, one could use some other hard wood for the aprons as long it's hard enough for the screw to be tight, i been thinking about making one with laminated maple veneer...i heard it has a sound of i...

Mac...i bought the table from king canada :) Dave, i haven't put a lock on the Z yet...i'm still trying to figure out somekind of lock design :roll: , any ideas?, i've got a 15amp speed controller coming in the mail that is suppose to work with routers, i've done some milling with my other router an...

Wow Dave ...i'm speechless that is gonna be one beautifull PSG .

congradulation Dave...again you've done some remarkable work

Pat

hi guys, here's some pics of my milling machine that i've built, needs a few coats of paint , i ordered some end mills and waiting for them and also ordered a speed controller for the router, the router is a black & decker 1hp with a 1/4" collet but i can change it if i want cause i've made the brac...

I've got a bunch about 50 pieces of 3 footers of SS welding rod for 20$ and they are alittle smaller than 1/8" so i think they are 7/64" and they work great and save alot of redrilling a 1/8" hole

Storm...i was gonna reply on your first changer pics dimensions but i noticed it after looking at it real good that you've made a mistake on the measurements , the second pics and dimensions are more standard .

i use 5/16 " for the pull rod holes instead of 1/4"

Hi Fred, i've build my first PSG 1/2" birds eyed maple single neck and it does have a little more cabinet drop than my other ones using 3/4" maple but not that much of differences, after building a few PSG's i've came to the conclusion that it is not only the cabinet that is due to the drop...cause ...

Pat....sounds like you've got the easiest method on the muscles! Where did you get the treated buffing wheel and the compound? Autosol, I seem to remember seeing that stuff at Canadian Tire, it's an old brand of cleaner I think. Mac Mac, i buy those buffing wheels from Caswell Canada http://www.cas...