Steel Guitar Builder

Hi Guys, here's a video of my last built Comeau#4 as requested, this was recorded live last friday night in an arena with a small camera, i had a real good time and the place was packed, i've been really busy these last few weeks working in my studio and playing gigs and such and that is why i haven...

Hi Dave, if the finish is not that bad...i mean like if the scratch and dings didn't go through the stain and wood; you could just repair the lacquer and buff it to a shine afterwards :) , one can still fix the stain and come real close to the original if you'd have to and go that road, the other ch...

Beautiful job Bent ,

is the bearing plate notch in the front apron?, the guitar is coming together real nice.


Pat C

Hey Bent ol' friend :) don't get mad :P , i was just trying to help and give you with some info of my trials and errors methods and what worked at the end fo me, i've learned that when someone tries to do or make something the're not sure how 100% it's always trials and errors that teaches you the r...

Oh ! another thing i forgot to mention is...if the lacquer still smell when you sniff it close that means it's not ready to be buffed and polish.

Bent...the key to have lots of coats is to have enough thickness for wet sanding, cause after all the sanding you're probably left with half of that an everything is even and level, i've read that Sho-Bud used to put 12 coats of lacquer on their guitars, :roll: , i still think 1200 grits is a bit to...

Bent , i would go up to 2000grit wet sanding..., i like to start with 400grit wet sanding and go up to 600,800,1000,1500,2000 then the polish, i've tried a few swirl removers and it doesn't seem to be any better than a good finish polisher, if all the sanding steps is made correctly...it'll shine li...

Eldon,

5 1/2" or 6" total lenght should be fine

Bob, no that won't work too well. The inlay gets installed a bit proud of the surrounding wood so that you have to sand it flush. Sanding the inlay will always cut into the stain. Hi guy's, one thing i did on one of my PSG"s was i stained the aprons and put the inlays after but what i did i made th...

Bent, i like the first one ...the others seems to be missing something in my opinion.

looking good as always my ol'friend

Pat