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Miles Unite
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Posted 20 Sep 2012 5:15 pm |
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Do any of you have any experience using the lap steel fretboards being sold on Ebay? I'm thinking of building my own lap steel and would like your opinion if you have one.
Thanks,
MU |
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 20 Sep 2012 6:11 pm
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Are you referring to the ones from Vietnam?
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Dan Simard
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Quebec, Canada
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Miles Unite
From:
California, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2012 6:48 pm lap steel fretboards
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Bill,
I guess those are the ones. I didn't know where they were made. But I guess I do now!
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George Piburn
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The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Iestyn Lewis
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2012 5:42 am
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You can make your own.
Go here:
http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/
Enter your scale length (I use 23 inches, other common scales are 22.5 and 24 inches).
Set the string widths to be equal (unless you want some taper in your strings)
Set the number of strings to 0 to just print the fretlines.
Save to PDF.
Use this program:
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.html#153
and convert it to Word format.
In Word, you can draw over the fretlines and add your fret markers. (If the images don't want to go over the fretlines, right click the image and choose "Size and Position", click Text Wrapping and choose "In front of text".)
Now you can print this out on glossy paper and embed it under plexiglass, or you can print it out on waterslide decal paper and apply it directly to the guitar, or you can print laminate and double-stick tape to your guitar.
Little more work, but this lets you design your fretboard to your specs.
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