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Topic: My Newest Creation! |
Rocky Hill
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Prairie Village,Kansas, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2009 5:23 pm |
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Here is my latest project, I had a hard time taking pictures without glare. I made all the metal parts in my shop also. I have miniature press brake dies that fit in a vise.
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Jim Grant
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2009 6:17 pm steel project
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very nice
Do you give lessons on building them |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2009 6:33 pm Unless my eyes are decieving me...
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Nice to see more and more steel craftsmen are incorporating the perfectly parallel strings theory.
That beauty looks like she can sing, Rocky. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2009 7:08 pm
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| NICE!!! |
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Roger Palmer
From:
Rossendale, UK
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Posted 17 Mar 2009 3:15 am
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Lovely job Rocky
I like the bridge...is it a full bar that's half buried? |
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Rocky Hill
From:
Prairie Village,Kansas, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2009 3:58 am
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| Roger Palmer wrote: |
Lovely job Rocky
I like the bridge...is it a full bar that's half buried? |
Yes it's a full 1" stainless steel bar. the cut out is in the neck, and the fits perfectly in the recess. The bar rests on the body. Very simple and very effective.
I started out playing pedal steel, but I have an artificial hip and working my left leg on pedals and knees are not real smooth. I started playing lap, but felt awkward in my lap. So I took my ideas from pedal steels to build a console style steel.
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John Burton
From:
Manassas, Va
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Posted 17 Mar 2009 5:17 am
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That looks like an awesome guitar!  |
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 17 Mar 2009 8:53 pm
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| Are the tuning shafts extended? they look extra long. |
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Rocky Hill
From:
Prairie Village,Kansas, USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 4:14 am
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| Dom Franco wrote: |
| Are the tuning shafts extended? they look extra long. |
They are indeed a little longer, I used Grover 106C rotomatic 18 to 1 locking tuners. Beings they have an end that turns they are a bit longer. If you look, my low A and high G are shorter than the rest. Beings the 106C Grovers only come in set of 6 I used 2 Grover star tuners I had so I didn't have to buy another set of 6 just to use 2. The length doesn't interfere with anything, so it works out good.
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