Steel Guitar Builder

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Yo Bent,

I hope you got a picture of the new owner's smile when he first saw that beautiful thing!

Her'es pics of all the parts I have for sale...I'm asking $1150 for the whole pile. Building one complete guitar will require making a few simple parts. Building a second rig will require making a few more of some of the parts. I'm happy to answer your questions via phone. please email me at scoboni...

Thanks Russ, but I can't take credit for much other than chopping the end plates and doing the assembly. American Steel was a short lived venture of Bobby Bowman's and a machinist pal of his. I think they opened and closed shop back around 2001. The gears are an off the shelf item that was part of t...

that's all folks...I'm too busy right now to spend a lot of time answering questions by email or on the forum. It's much easier for me to answer your questions (if any) on the phone. Email at the addy in the first post and I'll send you my phone number.

Have a good day gang,
Ross

3 more pics to follow

Howdy all, I was going to wait to post pictures of this beast until I got the wood front apron and rear deck cut, finished and mounted, but that part of the project has been waiting in the wings for at least two months and I don't see myself getting to it anytime soon. This is a push pull rig with c...

your playing is great, you've got a hell of a great voice and you build a mighty nice steel guitar. I want to be just like you when I grow up!
Really fine Pat!

Georg, If I'm following you and I may not be...simply using an adjustable bell crank to attain a rod position just a tad closer to the body than a standard bell crank's options allows should do it...with non-adjust bellcranks on round cross shafts you can turn the bell crank so it actuates in a diff...

didn't need that on my protos Georg, but I've got it covered, very simple