The Steel Guitar Forum

After struggling through a couple unsuccessful repairs on the first pedal steel I’ve owned, purchased last year, and learning that it was essentially a parts guitar with an unconventional setup, I decided to try and search again for a more well-known brand. Almost unbelievably, I found a Craigslist ...

In the picture of the changer from the top side, I notice that the screw at the back side of the changer on the 4th string sticks out more than the others. Just an observation--I have no idea if it is significant. I can't make any sense of the underside changer pic! That was my attempt at loosening...

If I sounded cranky it's because I was cranky. Sorry. I'm basically frustrated because I'd like to help but I just can't. I expect that with it in my hands it would take little time to sort things out. But without hands-on, without just feeling things out and letting the guitar talk to me, it's jus...

It appears that a bell-crank has slipped. I see one that is leaning over at an angle. ~Lee With that very limited photo, it appears to me that that is the LKL raise and I'm thinking that if the lever were not fallen-over, that crank would be sitting upright. It feels futile trying to troubleshoot w...

I'm going to bump this up, in the hopes that one of our pedal steel guitar mechanics can help. It appears that a bell-crank has slipped. I see one that is leaning over at an angle. ~Lee That may have been my doing. I tried to set everything up from the get-go with a new set of strings (because ther...

Because of the totally unfamiliar way the rods-into-the-changer is rigged, I'm sort of stopped in my tracks. I just don't know what's going on there and without getting my hands on that, I've got nothing. Are you referring to where the rods enter the changer at the set screw? From fiddling with it,...

It appears that a bell-crank has slipped. I see one that is leaning over at an angle. ~Lee With that very limited photo, it appears to me that that is the LKL raise and I'm thinking that if the lever were not fallen-over, that crank would be sitting upright. It feels futile trying to troubleshoot w...

Hi y'all, I'm at my wits end trying to figure this out. I'll get some pictures up as well, but on my push/pull PSG, my LKR does not lower the pitch of my high e string at all. I've tried putting on new strings and I've adjusted the rods so that there's more than enough travel in the lever, the low e...

If the lever is lowering the Low E 8th string proper to note, The knee lever and cross shaft are working proper. Check the pull rod and bell crank, Move the knee lever, Does the Cross rod rotate the High E 4th string Bell Crank, Or is the Cross Shaft rotating inside the Bell Crank? Check where the ...

Hi y'all, I'm at my wits end trying to figure this out. I'll try to get some pictures up, but on my all-pull PSG, my LKR does not lower the pitch of my high e string at all. I've tried putting on new strings and I've adjusted the rods so that there's more than enough travel in the lever, the low e s...

Just what the title says, I live right near the metro but can drive wherever is needed, please give a shout if anyone knows of someone!

Thanks for posting the pics but I got nothing, sorry. Appears to be well machined very basic mechanics. I guess if it plays and sounds good, that's all that matters. No worries, I appreciate you taking a look. Looks good with the Strobostomp and sounds good along with other instruments, so I guess ...

What looks unusual and caught my eye. The guitar has 2 adjustable legs installed on the front. Looks if the adjustment clutches are being used as stops so the pedal bar will not slide up the legs when the pedals are pressed. And the back 2 legs has no adjustment for an uneven floor. Some pictures o...

Never seen anything like it, but there's lots of things I've never seen. The changer mount appears to have some sort of anti-detuning web. There are some similarities in a few places that do look sort of familiar to another make that I can't quite put my finger on. Perhaps ZB. The only Leonard name...

Hey y'all! Thanks for all the wonderful resources on here, I'm excited to start joining in as I continue to learn this beautiful instrument. I bought my first PSG off Reverb about four months ago; as far as the specs of it, the seller mentioned that it has a George LE-66 pickup and a Sho-Bud dustcat...