The Steel Guitar Forum

howdy,

so i just bought my first pedal steel, an old Rus-ler 10 string, and there is no fret board on the guitar. i was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a makeshift fretboard. i've seen some on ebay for sale and i may go that route, but want something to hold me over until then. any ideas would be helpful.

thanks,
RJ

I bet if you call Jim Palenscar at Steel Guitars of North County http://www.steelguitars.me/ he could help you

Jim

It is important that you get a fretboard with the right scale length for you to play the guitar in proper tune.

Some steels have a 24" scale, others 24 1/4". Yours is probably one of these.

A few keyless guitars are even longer than that. I don't know what scale the Rus-ler is, but someone else here probably does.

Jim Palenscar deals in steel guitar products out your way and can likely guide you in the right direction as has been recommended previously.

Ross,call Chuck Back at Desert Rose he should have a Rus-Ler fingerboard http://www.desertroseguitars.com/

Hey Ross,Could you post some pics of your new Rus-ler,Those guitars are incredible sounding.

i will definitely post some pics tonight...it's pretty beat up and looks to be a beginner model. it's actually probably the ugliest steel i've ever seen, but it does sound great! i think i'll probably refinish it...

-RJ

If it's Ugly, I think I had one of those. It was my first guitar. It was very soundly built. I got rid of it before I really knew all that much about what I was doing.

Ross Ugly is the new Pretty!

sweet! then this thing is a 10!

ross...it'll be fine as long as you paint some flames on it!