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Topic: Putting Legs on a lap steel |
Brian Henry
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Posted 22 Mar 2015 4:51 pm |
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I want to put 3 legs on my lap steel. I have two questions.
What is a good angle for them to be?
Should all,three legs be the same angle?
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2015 7:49 am
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If you buy a set of legs with the flange, the angle is already there. Gary Sill sells the flanges and legs.
I put them on this guitar. The legs might look straight on the picture, but they are angled. On a three leg guitar, two angle backwards and the middle leg angles forward:
Last edited by Erv Niehaus on 23 Mar 2015 7:50 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Michael Behrent
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Wisconsin, USA
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Jouni Karvonen
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Helsinki, Finland
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Brian Henry
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Posted 23 Mar 2015 5:09 pm
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Thank you for your responses. The reason I need the angle is because I have a machinist friend who said he would make me 3 just for the $10 cost of the material. It seems to me that 15 degrees would be a good angle. Can someone confirm would work.
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Robert Allen
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2015 5:31 pm
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| I looked into buying material and having it machined and discovered that the material would cost more than buying three sockets from Gary Sill. There's two ways to go when buying material. Either a 3" diameter cylinder or 3/4" plate. Either way, you lose a lot of metal during the machining process. People who make these sockets usually cast them and then machine the finish so there isn't a lot of metal wasted. Bob -- Melbert Steels |
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Brian Henry
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 8:48 am
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| Thank younRobert, I got the necessary parts from Ace hardware in Chattanooga. The parts were $4.20 and the 9 screws www $1.20. That will give me the supports for 3 legs. I am not using aluminum. I will post pictures of the finished product before I mount them on my frypan. |
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Brian Henry
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Posted 4 Apr 2015 5:48 am
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Here we go. 3 washers
3. Long nuts 1/2" thread 2" long open ended
My ex delta machinist friend cut them at 15 degrees and welded the nuts to the washers and drilled 3 holes in each washer. The holes are small and stainless bolts will be used. They will be screwed into my frypan solid aluminum lap steel.
They are not as pretty as the $75 set of three, but no one will see them except me. Not bad for under $10
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 4 Apr 2015 7:13 am
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Maybe they only cost you $10 but they depreciated the value of the guitar $500.  |
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Brian Henry
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Posted 4 Apr 2015 11:25 am
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Here is the final result. By the way Erv t his 10 string lap steel with Carter Keyhead and Alumitone pickup and water jet cut solid aluminum body, total cost only $300, not including the legs. By the way, Erv thank you for posting your picture. It really helped me get the leg positioning correct. If I a $300 dollar guitar has devalued $500, then I guess somebody owes me $200😄
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Mark Shuda
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2015 6:40 am very cool!
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Nice!
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Mark Roeder
From:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2015 2:07 pm
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Herb Remington makes a similar socket for his consoles. Female threaded pipe instead of a nut though
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