The Steel Guitar Forum

The fretboard looks amazing in the pics. Maybe a primer on how you created it and what the print out looked like before you put it on.

Is it glued on?
Did you laquer over it?
Did you print it at a store like Kinkos?
Am I asking too many questions?

I really love the helpfulness of all the folks on this site. By the way I am from Dallas, TX. I would love to find a lap steel teacher locally.

David

I am just learning lap steel guitar after playing guitar for many years. I was at a buddies house and couldn't just "strum along" as he played. Is there a way to learn to play along with somebody when you know he is playing chords and singing.

The two tone frets, Aluminum/Black/Aluminum are amazing.

Sounds like a great deal

I sure would like to see the final finished pics. What a beautiful piece of wood, and a better use of it.

I am going to look at this Lap Steel which is on Craigslist. Does anyone know about them. I searched the forum and can't seem to find anything about Lap Steel, but saw a post about Crafters Resonators. http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1029/11343_Crafters_1.jpg http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/use...

Pickup - Lollar Chicago 8 string
Tuners - Grover Rotomatic mid size 18:1
Scale length - 24
Frets - Fretwire just for the looks

The jpg is a rough SketchUp drawing of my dream lap steel

I am a woodworker with all the tools and skills to build my first lap steel. So far I have gathered up the following stuff. The type of music that I hope to be playing will be a mix of Blues (Think SRV), Country and some Gospel (with a bluesy country feel) I plan on something that looks like the stu...

Hi, I am a 60 year old guy from the DFW area, Garland for those that know the area. I am a woodworker who cut about an inch off of two fingers on my left hand over 10 years ago. I can still touch type and do most everything except for play guitar. I haven't sucessfully been able to form a chord sinc...