Steel Guitar Builder

I have been working on my guitar lately, deciding I really would like to finish this project. I have looked at many different ways to make the changer and changer fingers. I finally decided on a simple way to do it, and to start with it is push or pull. Eventually I'll make it push/pull. I just want...

Just wanted to chime in here and say I have not given up on this project. The last year has been quite crazy for me, having had to move a few times, financial difficulties, etc etc. Anyway, I'm now in a situation I can carry on with this project, building my own Pedal Steel Guitar. Up to now it's ju...

Here are a few more photos of what I have done so far: In the first image, it's hard to see because the image is not super clear, but, I machined the neck where the bridge is placed, so there is a ledge for the bridge to set up against. This is to insure precision alignment, and, the stress of the p...

Elektro: Did you notice you can play the whole major scale at root fret using pedals A,B,G, and E, on my copedant, with C as an alternate source of 2 and 6. In other words, whole tunes can be played in triads without moving from root, except where slides are required for effect. The IIm, IIIm, and ...

Major 8-string PSG Copedant: | 0 || F | G || A | B | C || E | H | |---||----|---||---|---|---||---|----| | 1 || 1# | || | | || 7 | | | 5 || | || 6 | | 6 || | 5b | | 3 || | 2 || | 4 | || | | | 1 || 1# | || | | 2 || 7 | | | 5 || | || 6 | | || | 5b | | 3 || | 2 || | 4 | || | | | 1 || 1# | || | | 2 || ...

In my next build, or, some other build, I can consider it. I can see rails, having the pickup mounted on them, with some sort of position locking mechanism, move the pickup to the choice tone, lock the pickup in place. This should not be too difficult to do. FWIW: I think rails and locking mechanis...

Elektro - I was in Bobbe Seymour's shop shortly after he received a new steel guitar from Jackson. It had two pickups. One mounted in the "bridge" position and the other several inches away in what might be called the "neck" position. Although I'm a jazz lover from 60 years past, I found the "neck"...

Elektro - You've stated that you want a more jazz sounding instrument. Pickup placement will address a part of that. By placing the pickup further away from the changer, the fundamental frequency of the string will be emphasized with a relative reduction in harmonics. I had this brilliant idea some...

It looks like you are off to a good start, Elektro. Strumable is good. It sounds like we have some similar ideals. No building tips here, but some ideas on tuning. I came to pedals, not because I wanted to play Nashville E9 or Swing C6 -- that's been done before and far better than I ever could -- ...

Boy do I ever like what I see there. I originally toyed with the idea of using pedals to get the chords as you describe in your first post, I did in the end go with a standard C6 copedant with 6 pedals. Now that I have 2 guitars I can fool around with the other one as much as I like. You'll like th...