Steel Guitar Builder

I have given this question some thought and I find it somewhat difficult to answer because of the way I have come to think about music in general and my copedant specifically. If you think of chords “vertically” or as stacks of various intervals that you then name with rules learned from “Jazz” theo...

http://jacksonsteelguitar.com/wp-content/gallery/media-prototypes-and-developments/dbl-slide-pu-top.jpg This is Jackson's take on movable pickups. I really think this would be quite useful. It seems to me that slanting the E9 pickup the opposite way from what is shown here would be useful for keepi...

I guess my point regarding "The Edge" is that no matter where the finger is in its travel the string never contacts the edge. It is always resting on the 3/4" radius just as it does on a conventional finger. I personally don't see how removing portions of the radius that are not used in raising and ...

It seems to me that all Jackson is doing here is removing as much material from the finger as possible. They are not reducing the radius, at least not significantly, since that would result in way longer pulls. The finger rotates on a similar size radius as their conventional changer. I really don't...

Notice that the lowers, while they are calling them "pulls", are really more like a push-release even though this is not a pull-release changer. This is a unique design. Raises are pulls and the lowers are "releases". The raise rods all run below the cross rods and the lowers run above like an Emmon...

I came across these animations on the Jackson site and thought they might be interesting to others on this forum as well.
http://jacksonsteelguitar.com/news/indi ... g-pullers/

Thanks for posting this Bent. Its sounding really nice. How do you like the Alumitone Pickup?

Some type of pin connection could be really trick but at the end of the day you still have to put one half of the connection on the pickup. Since that is a hassle for all and a real challenge for some I like this concept. All you would do is simply strip the wire on the pickup (if not already done),...

Not wanting to hijack another thread I though I might share this here. I have been thinking that these things might be the ticket. Installed in line between the pickup and jack they would make changing pickups easier. They are reusable and by all accounts work as advertised, although I myself have n...

This one looks REALLY nice from what I can see. In fact it seems as though each one is better than the one that came before it!