Steel Guitar Builder

Wow! How cool is that!!

Congrats buddy, I'm sure that will be one great addition to your shop!

-L

Thanks for the kind words guys! Bent: The template material is only thin cardboard. I had tried my Bosch router on a scrap piece of the Limba with a brand new bit and it had a tendency to tear out the smaller birds eye type figuring of the wood. I decided to clean up the cut by hand with small hand ...

Hard to believe there's no opinions on this...

I've noticed that some of the high end lap steel builders are producing models with areas of the body routed out and then using a bookend top to cover. What would the advantage be to having hollow chambers? Any of you guys built something along these lines? Size and shape of the chambers?

Finally got a little break today and was able to get back to the Black Limba project. I decided to take a bit of a different approach with the design. I wanted to do something along the design lines of Bill Asher's guitars. Since I have a couple of Duncan 59s and all the quality parts for a nice Gib...

You just have NO idea what kind of work goes into this type of quality instrument until you start to tinker with building your own. As always George, your work is a pleasure to see and it is an endless inspiration!!!

I'd say that's pretty sweet for your first effort!

Hoping my first turns out that well!

Got any close up pics?

There seems to be a pretty wide variety of bridges on both home-brewed and commercial/pro lap steels. I'm wondering what some of you guys are using and why you might have chosen what you did? --Looks as though Bill Asher uses a Les Paul kind of configuration on his Ben Harper model. --Ryan over at r...

Hi Pat,
Terrific idea! That really open's the door to all sorts of custom fretboard design!

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