Steel Guitar Builder

The problem is, how to use the same rods for push/pull. I came up with a solution, of which I'll post more about later, as I'd like to at least hook up one string and see it actually work. Two different pedals will be on a rocker bar, when one pedal is depressed, the string is lowered. While one pe...

Try using multiple light-sources at 30 to 45 degree angle relative to the object-camera line, and no flash.

Maybe a small spring plunger, in one form or another, will work as half-stop.

Am looking forward to see, and hear, what you have done to/with that old Dekley.

Solved, I think. Looks like a quarter-turn lock with 2 positions will do the job and take up the least space.

Bent, your examples are OK apart from that they take too long to modify and require tools. Not practical in live situations where copedent must be altered in 5-10 seconds. Must be able to disengage or reengage a pull rod just as quick and easy as if I were to flip a knee lever up to disengage (get i...

On existing PSGs I find taking pull rods on existing pedals/levers out of the equation when I don't want/need a particular change, more functional than to add more pedals/levers to cover an extended range of combinations. Does anyone have an idea for a quick-lock on pull rods, so individual rods can...

Richard, I don't think PSGs with "soundboard" will get much traction over traditional builds. I have played one new-built PSG with true "soundboard" in later years, and although I would choose it over all traditional builds because of its much wider sound-range and responsiveness to changes in playi...

Dekley is an exception in that it has a soundboard in a frame . The soundboard is not attached tightly to the front, back and end profiles, so it can vibrate more freely - as a soundboard should IMO. The soundboard on my Dekley S10 "slimline" is thinner along the edges than in the middle, and the sl...

As to the roller bridge. I have argued, on many occasions, on the SGF that no one really knows what does, and does not, contribute to "sustain" and tone. I prefer to use the word "decay" since, immediately after plucking a string, the amplitude of vibration "decays" in some exponential fashion. No ...