The Steel Guitar Forum

Hello, This is my first post on this forum. I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on converting my Steinberger 'headless' guitar into a lap steel. I have bought a Grover GP1103 Perfect Guitar Nut. The Grover nut is wider than the top fret area of the neck.

I have raised the action as high as it can go but the strings are not high enough. I was wondering if there is anything more I can do so the guitar can be played as a lap steel?

Thanks for your time.

Do you mean the Grover nut hangs over the edges of the feet board? Like it's too wide?
If so; I would say use it anyway. If you use the Grover nut, I can't imagine the action isn't high enough.

The slight additional width of the Grover nut may be a feature, not a flaw. Widening the string spacing at the nut will likely make it easier to play with a bar, not harder.
You could also fabricate a taller nut. While it would look more tailor-made, I doubt that it would sound any better and you'd still have the narrower string spacing.

I think the justanut wouldn't sit over fret zero it would get pushed towards fret 1: https://www.zzounds.com/item--STNGTPRO

I have heard of people using packs of post it notes or cigarette papers or stuff like that under the strings at the nut to get extra clearance to play slide.

Thank you John Burton, D Schubert and Gene Tani for taking the time to respond to my question. I appreciate it.