Steel Guitar Builder

In the past, I have gotten some servicable El Cheapo tuners from Elderly:

http://www.elderly.com/accessories/cats/GAPG.html or http://www.elderly.com/accessories/cats/GEPG.html

HTH.

Since this topic has managed to resurface, Andrew, I just have to ask: Has anything more come of this amp project? And since I'm jabbering away, I might as well throw in my two centavos worth on amp design. How about dripping oodles of spring tank reverb, four or five active tone controls, effects l...

. . . but at some point I will need someone to step up and help so the registrations can be taken care of in a more timely manner. . . . Why not now? I'll bet if you posted some specific requirements right now in terms of computer skills and time needed to do the job and so on, you'll get more than...

banjo980 wrote:. . . Any idea for a blueprint? . . .

I believe that Janet Davis, Paul Beard and Stew-Mac all offer kits for building Reso guitars, so any one of those might be a good source for blueprints or a book of plans. HTH.

Very nice jobs, Russ. I like those a lot. I'm with Paul: How about a couple of more pictures with some close-up detail?

Given the way that people fling their opinions about around here, I'd of thought that you'd of had a least a dozen of them by now. I don't own any double- or multi-necked steels so this is really out there speculative opinion. It seems to me that this is mainly a player issue: What is s/he most comf...

I don't know why you would want so many strings, but as far as the gauges go, that's pretty standard information. There are lots of charts on the web, here's a link to one: http://www.hawaiiansteel.com/learning/gauges.php Here's a link to plans for a little bit different steel guitar project. It has...

It looks like you are off to a good start, Elektro. Strumable is good. It sounds like we have some similar ideals. No building tips here, but some ideas on tuning. I came to pedals, not because I wanted to play Nashville E9 or Swing C6 -- that's been done before and far better than I ever could -- b...

A simple screw-type terminal strip mounted near the pickup and connected to the output jack (or control pots) would probably be easiest for most applications. http://rsk.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pRS1C-2265721w345.jpg The photo shows a two-position strip, but they are available in four, six...

Pictures would be great. You might get some tuning ideas here

http://b0b.com/tunings/

or here

http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html

Andy Volk's book is a great inspiration, too. HTH.