Steel Guitar Builder

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:04 pm**

Thanks Ron! I have to router the slots for the machine heads/tuners now soon,. I'm scared to death for that part.

Posted: **Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:57 pm**

Had a good night tonight, I was dreading routering those slots but it turned out ok in the end. I think most of my time was spent staring at it trying to figure out how I was even going to do it! So with the help of some jigs I managed to get them done.

Starting to look like a guitar!

I got the headstock, and most of the fret board binding on as well. Tomorrow I'll attempt the body binding.

Posted: **Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:32 am**

You've done well.

Ron Mc

Posted: **Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:21 pm**

Thanks again Ron! I'm pretty excited with this one. I was looking through the pictures of your pedal steel build, amazing. I have a milling machine but I'm pretty far off from trying to figure out anything like that. It looks pretty technical.

On a side note,.. I'm sure alot of you guys are thinking "what a messy shop!" haha it's temporary, so nothing really has a place to be put yet, so it gets a bit jumbled.

Posted: **Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:40 pm**

My workshop is the same, as I suspect everyone's is, I thought about getting a cat for mine's but there wouldn't be room to swing one.

Regards Ron Mc

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:16 pm**

Got my tuner holes drilled, they came out a bit rough but the washers inside cover any tear out up

And made up a bridge

Posted: **Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:51 pm**

mark63uni wrote:Had a good night tonight, I was dreading routering those slots but it turned out ok in the end. I think most of my time was spent staring at it trying to figure out how I was even going to do it! So with the help of some jigs I managed to get them done.

Starting to look like a guitar!

I got the headstock, and most of the fret board binding on as well. Tomorrow I'll attempt the body binding.

Great job, your process will be really helpful for my next one

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:54 pm**

I got the fret board glued on, and a lot of the shaping and sanding finished up

2 of my helpers, there's one more I think he was off chewing up the scraps.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:43 am**

Shaping up really nicely. The last picture looks a bit ruff though

Who could resist these big eyes

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:03 am**

I think your work is beyond compare, your work ideas are ingenious and your end result is pure eye candy.

Maybe your 2 helpers will get some "licks" in on the finished product?

Kudos to you an a top quality product!

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