The Steel Guitar Forum

This is the guitar assembled. I broke the last 3 string, I will have to wait till I get new strings to try again.

I twisted the cables but it did not helped so I needed to ground the negative cable, to reduce the noise to an acceptable level. This is a single coil pickup which always will be affected by interferences, if you want to cancel completed the noise you need a hambucker pickup or make a dummy coil for...

the stock pickup sounds good, but has a decent amount of noise... recording with it is pretty annoying. i chose the GL 10-1 pickup as an upgrade to kill the single coil buzz and hopefully fatten up the overall sound. i think it will be a very minimal routing job with my dremel - the mounting holes ...

THANK YOU Ian , for the explanation I really appreciate the help. As you say is a very simple mechanism and I was getting some understanding of it , but now I really know how it works. A few days ago I was trying to hold the finger against the stop with my hand to tune the raise but I was not too su...

I asked a friend to help me making the fingers that were broken and I received them today. He made them from stainless steel, wich is not the best material but at least I know that I can not break them again. I will try again to tune the guitar following the advices from you all and I let you know h...

The parts are moving freely . I think one of the problems is that it came with very old string and some of them broke and I change them with guitar string of approximately the same gauge. Now I know that is not possible I have ordered new strings. The guitar is torn apart because I broke a finger ( ...

Hi, I am new to pedal steel guitar but I´ve been a musician for mre than 30 years. I have bought an old Sho bud Maverick and I really want to learn to play it but the problem is that it doesn´t stay in tune no matter how many ways I try. And trying to adjust it I have broken two fingers. Right now...