The Steel Guitar Forum

Haven't built one of these for a while now. This one just went off to Colorado.

Walnut with rope binding. Wenge fretboard, handguard and tailpiece.

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Ach, sorry - that's what you get when you drool into the keyboard. WOAH!

Mike D--still one of the most gorgeous instruments made. One of the others is the Frypan you make.

Thanks fellers!

Stunning Mike, absolutely gorgeous!

Oh Mike! That's freaking stunning!
I love how "discreet" (for lack of a better way to put it) the cones are. This is fantastic.
How the heck did you get the cones intere? I don't see any evidence of the typical access panel.

'Gorgeous' has already been used so I'll go with breathtakingly beautiful. Very nice work. Hoping to build my own lap steel this winter and it's definitely going to have rope purfling.

Beautiful!

Jason check out the third picture and you can just make out a hole in the lower bout. The well is open on that side and the cones slide in there.

This was my first time with the rope binding and I really dig it.

Mike, do you have a website showing your guitars?

Mike, do you have a website showing your guitars?

Sorry about that echo effect. Got a server error message.

Outstanding work, Mike. A really beautiful design.

Pete, no not right now, at least not a current one.

Thanks again folks.

I hear rumors that these sound fantastic.

Let me know if you ever figure out how to do an 8 string. These days, I really must have 8.

outstanding!!!

Wow! That's impressive, Mike.

Guess you can't ever swap out the cones!

Tha's easy Andy, the trick was getting 'em IN!

Peter I built Howard R. a 7-stringer but that's about all that will fit on the saddle unless you narrow up the string spacing.

wow..that speaks to me visually! it says i can't afford it and don't deserve it anyway! very nice.