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I think i'll revive this thread and make myself known haha. I'm originally from a small english fishing town in eastern Quebec and relocated to Newfoundland to study Marine Engineering to work on lake freighters, during my first year I re found my love for country music and decided to build my self ...

Thank you everyone for your kind words, currently thinking about building a nice SD10 for myself now, just have to think it all over before i starts it.
Ian: i think it's just the coating on the welding rods I used.

-NIC

The fact that this one is already in Canada makes me wanna bite on this one! Very Nice guitar!

Hello everyone, I'm thinking about starting a new build and its going to be nothing like I ever tried before, part of my upgrade from my pervious steels, I'd like to try and make a single one piece keyhead design instead of my three piece deign that I have now. I have an idea about some rough dimens...

Thanks Tim, no I didn't follow a plan, just built a couple guitars over time and tweaked the design as I went and jotted rough notes down. My first couple guitars were very sloppy so it wouldn't be embarrassed about anything, everyone gotta start somewhere, Thanks Andy, I think I seen this first on ...

I tune the 2nd string to C# then raise to D# with RKR and planning on to add another knee lever (LKL O) to raise the C# to D, it was the way most of the greats did it to work around the double lower on PR or PP guitars.

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/19798_IMG_5886_2.jpg https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/19798_IMG_5887_1.jpg Finally got my first D10 done, took a nice while, most of it was cut using a jigsaw and WD40 for coolant, but some stuff was made using a milling machine when I had the ...

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/19798_IMG_5243_2.jpg I've mostly finished my guitar, I'm still to hook up the mechanics for the C neck, but I'm still playing it non pedal style, the E9 neck sounds great I cant get over the sound, certainly I never played anything else other than the gui...

My D10 project is coming along, keeping my schooling as a priority i usually pick at it here and there. Soon be time to start building the undercarriage.

Hi Steven, the changers in my D10 will be the pull release type, I have a simple mind and its the easiest to wrap my head around.

I made two this morning as well for my project. Wasn't fortunate enough to have a mill at my disposal so I used my drill press, hacksaw and my file set.

Thank you so much! I'll send him a message!

Who makes custom fretboard decals? I usually use Carter starter fretboards but I want to start using my own design for my guitars from now on! I use a 24" scale, the width at the nut is 2 11/16" and the width towards the changer end is 3 1/4".

Planning on getting the colours on the new guitar this weekend, should see some progress pictures soon. I'm planning on doing red stain with black necks, I don't have the best lacquers and paints available but I'm hoping it'll still look nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YTUyhE9ZU

I found this video on youtube of Mr. Green playing his green LDG on tv, not sure of the year, but I found it pretty cool.

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/19798_9814FAE797884040BADF6FD293F6C1D2_1_201_a_3.jpg https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/19798_1B68967402D74E5E9122528844EC8704_1_201_a_3.jpg Heres my latest finished build, I started it January 2021 and finished it August 2021, I has a smal...

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/19798_IMG_4879_2.jpg Hi Everyone, my name is Nic Thomas, I'm 21 years old and I'm currently living in Newfoundland, Canada. Pedal Steels are a little hard to get around these areas, and due to the prices and the question of if I was gonna actually lear...

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Heres a pull release guitar I finished this summer!

I sent you a PM!

Thanks

I wonder what became of this guitar?

Hi Everyone, I've been reading on the forum for a few years now but haven't really posted much, so heres my first real topic. I was wondering if theres any old guitars out there that could use a little "elbow grease" I always wanted a D10 but it seems a little out of my price range so I th...

I remember seeing clips on youtube of Harry Hibbs, and his backup band was Johnny Burke's band "Eastwind" and Bob Lucier was playing steel, it was probably the first real glimpse of the instrument I seen, and the background playing he did behind the accordion on some songs were amazing.

What a beautiful looking steel, a guy can only dream I guess!

Thank you Barry!

~ Nic