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Hi all, its a long time since I first posted my Electro Steel Guitar build. Well I am still loving the guitar and play it as often as I have time to do so. However I'm in the process to build my second Electro Steel and wonder if you older and younger steel players have suggestions of how I can bett...

Hi. I build the Electro Steel in the forum. I am designing my second Electro Steel and will use stepper motors instead of servo motors this time. Although the servo motors do a great job, I can hear them when operating. Did you ended up using stepper motors, if so how loud are they when actually pul...

Nice looking case and guitar.
Did you build the guitar as well? Is the guitar body aluminium or stainless?

Australia Greetings
JDB

I would love to have a copy, thanks Mate
jdebruyn26@gmail.com

JDB

Thanks Tim I like to think outside the box. Live become boring if you keep the usual.

Hi Again. For you guitar builders, I need help with my design. My first Steel guitar body I build with a wooden frame with an 8mm aluminium plate on the top. What would be the best sound transfer. A wooden body with aluminium top or an aluminium all over body. or any other suggestion. If I use an al...

I completed my first Electro-Steel-Guitar and decided to build my next with a few upgrades to the existing. To align with Paul's suggestion and to test a new concept I decided to trial a concept to wind a pick-up individually as in the picture. I tested 2 coils on 2 strings and the sound was great, ...

Will be interesting to know what he did.

Hi JD I didn't scrap your idea with the pitch controller as yet. I am in the process to design a completely different concept to change the string pitch that seems like nobody has thought of yet. One of the changes in the new concept will be to have one pick-up for each string. I already tested two ...

I added some shortcuts to video clips to show the servo accuracy.
Hope that will answer more questions.
https://youtu.be/GxaM9HIhALY
https://youtube.com/shorts/T_L47UlFqcs
https://youtu.be/DOMkZrdLbTY
https://youtu.be/tpZdFS95ivk
https://www.facebook.com/10000199384491 ... 652899576/

Hi JD Thanks for your reply. I had a servo from round the 90 and that servo was not as accurate as the servos today. I will post a video to show the accuracy. It is spot-on and consistent. I tune the servos with a remote key-pad. Just keep in mind the videos I send, I am very new on E9. I only start...

Attach short video clips. Sorry for the quality will, will work on that next videos.
https://youtu.be/__O_YAn24Z8
https://youtu.be/Mfjc81kSHdI

Another video shortcut. Sorry for the quality, it's only to show the operation of the guitar.
https://youtu.be/__O_YAn24Z8

Below a Link to a video I made. I will add more videos tomorrow.
https://youtu.be/Mfjc81kSHdI

Can you sent me a picture or photo to see what it is and looks like please.

To understand. Is this issue only on string 4 E string. The reason I ask. I am the Electro Steel Builder in this forum, and I tried to figure out why my E string does not return to E but all other strings return 100% to its coded positions.

Hi thanks for your mail. To be honest, I think it’s not that complicated. Most appliances we use daily are more complicated. When I build another, the servos will be plug and play should you need to replace one for some reason. Other than that the program code, will be the complicated side of the gu...

Hi all. Its a long time since I posted my first introduction of my Electro-Steel guitar build. I progressed up to the point where I can now play my Electro-steel. Up to now I only played a Lap steel in C6. I tried to post a video of me playing but not sure if I can. So since the last post I made som...

Hi all. Its a long time since I posted my first introduction of my Electro-Steel guitar build. I progressed up to the point where I can now play in E9 for the first time ever with my Electro-steel. Up to now I only played a Lap steel in C6. As lots have asked me to send a video of me playing, I atta...

My design at present is to pull the strings by measuring the degree of the servo arm. The accuracy is very good. After I tune the guitar on E9, that values become the constant of all the movements. When I switch from E9 to C6 it then also use the default values as a reference to change the tensions ...

The strings seems to settle now. Thanks for your post.
I am in the Newcastle area NSW.
I previously tried to upload videos with no success, but to change from E9 to C6 one of the strings need to jump a octave and survive every change, fingers cross.

I have a question. With my Electro Steel I found that the normal strings over the counter keeps stretching. Every time I start playing I have to readjust. The strain is more as I change between Tunings, some strings need to stretch a full octave. What make strings will be a better string for Pedal s...

I don't know if I can upload Videos.

Hi All I thought I will send you some pictures of my newly build Electro Pedal steel. As a C6 Lap Steel player I decided to build another Lap Steel that I can set on E9. As I completed the Lap Steel, I found that E9 work more on a Pedal Steel, so I converted it to a Pedal Steel with a twist. This st...

Hi All I thought I will send you some pictures of my newly build Electro Pedal steel. As a C6 Lap Steel player I decided to build another Lap Steel that I can set on E9. As I completed the Lap Steel, I found that E9 work more on a Pedal Steel, so I converted it to a Pedal Steel with a twist. This st...