The Steel Guitar Forum

Steinar seems to have touched a whole lot of people in different ways. He liked something goofy that I did, and I loved something beautiful that he did. I wanted to send him something... I guess this is it. RIP man.

Swanky Tom! Love that twelfth fret marker.

I'd just jump in and try, but then, I am known to be a little mad Working alum by hand is ... work, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

Your wife signed you up man, you have carte blanche!

Tom Wolverton wrote:Fender probably did the dimple design, so it would be quick and easy and not be prone to buzzing.

What Tom said.

Fantastic video Roy! Encore please!

Wow - that's really exciting!

If you're shopping for a quote, you can try me too, I make laser etched acrylic and wood inlay boards, helped Leroy with his mirror boards. The hard part is deciding what to make, there are endless variations. The laserable plastic is interesting stuff. Here's yesterday's project... http://bb.steelg...

Getting all those angles and steps... ... I feel for you ... Indeed. When you look at guitars like these, or like Tom's, you have to realize that the work can be somewhat akin to playing chess on a roller-coaster. My hat is off to them for what can only be described as a labor of skill, patience an...

What a sweetie! Even the tuner buttons in good shape. That's a keeper indeed. 36frets, cool

Is it like this one...

http://www.vintagesilvertones.com/forsa ... steel.html

if so then it would have been made by Valco and there are lotsa Valco owners around here who would know the answer

Mark, How did you ground the Corian bridge? There's a bit of copper foil on the bottom of the bridge that the string ends are touching, ground wire is soldered to that. Good question. Glad to hear you're busy Don, but I wanna see that triple 8) http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix0912/8670_7strfi...

Thanks all. Roger, it's just E Maj, same as you'd find on a 6 string, with an extra G#. My plan is to make so many that I am forced to sell them to save my marriage ;-) Stan, I was surprised that the corian was brighter than I expected. I'd surmise it would be a lot like bone, but I have no bone bri...

When you look at the pics, you know it's like a life being saved by a pro. Brain surgeons should probably study guitar repair for a semester. Love the pic with the knife sticking out

I had been waiting forever it seemed for a bridge I designed for this guitar but my friend the machinist, well, let's just say that downtime isn't an issue for him at the moment :) So one day I was thinking about Corian which I have been using for making nuts, and I thought, 'why not make this bridg...

Thanks for the dimensions Doug! I sound terrible already, and play mostly in open E major (where getting at the minor would be very cool). I was thinking of making one that worked so that sliding the mini-bar all the way to the right was just right for say the 7th fret, and all the way to the left w...

The problem really is that steel players are not writing enough of their own music. The other side is when they do write, who knows it's a steel? I listened to Gilmour for decades without knowing he was playing lap steel at all. I prolly owe my salvation to YouTube. I'm making steels in a fairly pu...

That's the coolest thing ever. I see why they call it a Minor Steel. I must have one. Doug could you post some rough dimensions?

Tom Pettingill wrote:too close and it will get woofy...

Great word!

Too close can also produce a nasty sort of fast tremolo that won't go away - caused by the magnets pulling on the strings.


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Maybe a dumb question but I gotta ask... you're pushing down with the bar a little bit right? It's firmly contacting the string you're playing.

And you're damping the strings to the left of the bar too, right?

It's just that in your first post you say it's definitely not user error

I'll throw in another vote for the Ernie Ball 6180 VP Jr. with a caveat or two... don't neglect the little taper switch it has, play with it, for me one of the settings is nasty, the other is perfect. Use good cables and keep them short (or on the other hand try several lengths - cables affect tone ...

I really like that - thanks!

here's a couple of open E minor tunes that are fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5N9zpsFpe4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrNQCYh70Y

Mark White wrote: Not too shabby looking

Yeah, Ricky, wow, and the girl is pretty too

Count me in - CD Baby works... if I had 'Angel' in hi-fi... whoa, I started another guitar build just because of that one...

James Mayer wrote:A stripper in graduating stages of undress.

yeah - or a holographic one, like those old naughty ballpoint pens, and at the twelfth fret, where there are two dots, you could... ok, never mind...