New section - for builders of all types of steel guitars

[Susie Fine]

Hi All, Susie, Jimmie Hudson and myself (Kelly Cornwell) are building 6 string (2 pedals 2 Knees), 10 strings (3 pedals 4 knees) steel guitars in North Carolina. We are taking orders and have 80 guitars, (red Mika, black Mika, and Natural curly maple and stained black cherry to name a few) and we are looking at briniging back the resonator Steel guitars. If you have any Questiions or would like to place and order check out the website Growlersteelguitars.com, we look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for all the support from the community, it has been overwhelming. Have a blessed day and play it like you stole it. LOL

[Jacobus De Bruyn]

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 separate pick-ups with two strings in my mock-up, and it seems to work fine. That lines up with your pitch controller idea. You can only change a pitch of one string, if you go that direction.
JD Do you have an pitch controller in mind. If I ever use a pitch controller it will be used as a add on pitch correction only.

One of the advantages of one pick-up per string is that you can easily balance the tone of all strings, as well as keep the strings ringing for longer. Will see how it play out.

Steel Guitars were never up-graded and I think it's time to do as this wonderful instrument is dying out.

Regards Jacques (JDB)

[Georg Sørtun]

Will just mention that Ed Packard (RIP) had that idea a long time ago. Don't know how far he took it, but seem to remember that he had built a complete, working, prototype.

[Jacobus De Bruyn]

Will be interesting to know what he did.

[Steve Comontofski]

I am using duesenberg parts to mirror a real one. I am struggling with this problem: How do you fit all of the parts on a 37 inch board? Can someone tell me the distance from the nut to bridge? How can you fit a 24 fret, 24.5,2 pickups with a several inch gap? Thanks for the help.