Steel Guitar Builder

Just wanted to let you all know about Ross Shafer's talents
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=200350

Tell us about it Ross...Did you make a whole new nut or weld on a piece of spacer? In any event, the repair job looks great!
You must have run it by the buffer as well....

the hardest part was getting the weld blob in there without the adjacent "fins" (about .040", 1mm thick) turning into a molten mess....that would've added a lot of extra work to the job! As you can see in the pic, one of the pointy tips on an adjacent ear burned back a bit..

I laid in the weld, machined the slots on either side of the blob the milled the front and rear of the repaired fin to match the profile of the others. I didn't have .093 ball end mill and was too impatient to order one and wait so using the other roller axle slots as a guide I very carefully drilled thru the repaired fin from the side, milled off the top, gave it a file stroke or two and sanded it with 60, 100, 220, and 400.

way more fun than the sheep fencing work I was playing hookey from

That's so cool! Imagine the power we have with a welder and a mill.

Ross, good job, when it comes to welding aluminum, in this case, it was very touchy......Mike

Ross was kind enough to repair my Blanton keyhead,it looked absolutely brand new when he got finished.