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thanks for your replies,
i've chased up the link to OZtion, just a brief glance there opens up a lot of possibilities. I might just take the scaredy-cats way out and buy a brass bridge. A mate of...

ok people,
I started another thread about string grounding with a bone saddle and got lots of responses, which have sorted out what i need to do in building this new guitar of mine. What i would...

cpsmusic,
you're right, hands are pretty much always in contact with the strings. Its more an issue of "worth doing, worth doing right." My first lapsteel (long since cannibalised for parts) I didnt...

making the saddle out of brass would be good i guess. I'll have to figure out where I get the brass and how to machine it though.

nah,
i will make a bone saddle and the strings will pass over it and into ferrules in the top of the guitar, then be held by (chunkier) ferrules on the back side. no pins, and the strings will pass...

yeah it will be like an acoustic bridge, bone saddle with a rosewood bridge blank i have ready to carve. so, all strings are 'electrically separated', unless i can join them at the nut or at the...

just to clear up what i'm on about,
i need to connect all six strings with the grounding point. one machine head wont do it...

yeah,
you dont touch the strings sometimes, but even with copper shielding you can get a nasty hum if youre not grounding the strings. My first attempt was so noisy until in frustration i got an old...

HI,
I'm about to start building a lap steel guitar, based about an awesome pickup i bought from Jason Lollar pickups. All my previous builds have used inexpensive humbuckers designed for electric...

Hi, good to hear you're getting into weissenborn.

Many decent aussie artists use them (check out jeff lang), and while hard to build I think it'll be easier than an acoustic steel string- no...

gday,
no offense intended, but are you buying a brand name or a guitar?
assuming you get the martin from overseas (and i've played a few of them in shops, they seem quite good instruments - I'm...

hi all,
I'm starting to muck about with bending wood, presently just rosewood binding strips for my latest lapsteel, but with the aim of beginning to bend sides etc for acoustic guitar projects.
...

For this one I just used a "golden age" cheapo pickup from stewmac. They actually give pretty good tone for the slide, and I wired a coil cut so I can use the pickup as single coil. Gets a very...

Hi everyone,
I just finished my latest lapsteel and thanks for all the advice I have absorbed from this forum. Thought I would show a few pics of it, see what people think.
Its a neck-through...

thanks guys,
I guess i'll just ground it to the star point and see what happens. btw all my negative leads, pot cases etc always go to this point, no loops as in grounding a -ve pot connection by...

hi all,
this is probably a stupid question but thats exactly the sort of question i get stumped on. I know very little about electronics and when wiring up components i just follow the diagram and...

hi everybody,
I'm building a guitar and i have just stained the rosewood fretboard with Japan black to even out the colour of the wood a little. My question is, do I have to seal this stain (the...

brendon,
nut materials for lapsteel can be nearly anything. I made my first one (quite poorly) out of aluminium section as you describe, and it doesnt look great but sounds ok. Lately ive been...

Very nice guitar. Good idea to use perspex for fretboard, how did you get it made?
Nice to see another lap steel maker on this forum, I find them quite an intuitive instrument to play, tune it...

hi,
been reading and seeing the great guitars here for a while, and thought id post where i am up to.
I started out ok and have the neck section cut out ready to carve. Then I got ahead of...

THanks for the tip.
Old sherline bandsaw my dad inherited has no support nowadays, but after reading your post I just went to the rubber shop and bought 10mm o-ring cord and loktite superglue, made...

Hi all,
I am just getting to the point of buying my first bandsaw. Both the Hafco and carbatec models, BS-355 and BAS-350 look good for my price range and power requirements. Both are priced at or...

gday,
do not buy this bandsaw it is a piece de caque as the french say. I just ruined a $50 guitar neck on the very beast...got it for free from my dad, and its going back to him with some savage...

thanks mate,
i've got the stewmac info sheet, it came with the truss rod. Very basic stuff about how deep the cavity should be and dont glue the rod in etc. The diagram they give does not show you...

hi guys,
just wondering if anyone has used hot rod truss rods, as I intend to install one in my current build.
what I was wondering, is for a neck end adjustment, where should the truss rod...