The Steel Guitar Forum

My that’s beautiful. Well done !

I would love to have a stone bar for my 6 string lappy.
Let me know how to proceed.

Mark

Thank you all for the insight. I’m going to center in on learning how to play and good technique and then I’ll know better which way to proceed. This is a new direction for me because I love toys and gadgets and the guitar world, as y’all know is overflowing with cool stuff.

My homemade Gretsch copy with a SD Antiquity lap steel pickup.

I found a nice version of said amp and it should be here this Thursday (tomorrow) if the weather holds. I have learned that there are several mods available but I’m not sure which are worth the effort or expense, so I come humbly before you in search of any wisdom that you may have in this area. A...

Ok. I didn’t realize that I was trying to send too large a photo.

Gentlemen, Thank you so much for the help. Your direction in this confirmed a few hunches I had and I feel I can tackle this now. Regarding pics, do you need to have a separate app for the importing into here ? Once I get the picture issue solved, I'll show my progress. Again, thank you for the help...

Thank you. That is helpful. My main concern is, how deep do I make the cavity for the pickup, how does the pickup stay mounted in the cavity, do I need a cover around the pickup after it's installed ? All I received with my pickup was two screws with spacers on them. I suppose it's more of a luthier...

Hello everyone, I'm Mark from Nebraska and am excited to learn from y'all. I'm a custom cabinet maker and spent 25 years in Nashville working in the music biz. I'm a singer, but never a player, so this is my first endeavor into the stringed world. I purchased plans from JAG for the Gretsch model pic...