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Explore Tristan Bowden's board 'CBG's, lap steel & guitar building' on Pinterest. See more ideas about Guitar building, Banjo and Banjos. Discover recipes. CBG's, lap steel & guitar building What others are saying 'in this video I go over how to do a basic fret installation from beginning to end. All the tools you will need to do one, and some tips for the novice.'

This is one sold from RetroFret Vintage Guitars. It's a beauty. This may seem sacrilegious, but how can I build something similar myself with just hardware store parts, spare electronics, and some spare strip tuners? I'm mainly looking for some measurements or a CAD drawing or something.

Ie: Fretboard length and width, overall length, headstock length, bottom width, top of headstock width, body width at nut, all the other stuff you'd need to create a similar shape. It's quite a bit to ask, but I can't get my hands on one to measure so help would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your time. Love your idea. This is my build thread. I may someday build that style too someday. I used two poplar pieces sandwiched together, but cut from the same template.

But you should use two templates for the two different shapes that I see. You can also find the string master tuning tray on Reverb. If you can't find measurements you might have to do it forensically. You know about how wide a tele pickup is, so you could use a ruler to measure it on the picture then measure the lap steel and then convert to scale. Adobe fireworks cs6 1200236 setup key software. I couldn't find great dims for mine, so I sorta guessed and tried to refine the shape from pics. My scale is 23 inches, but I've been thinking about shortening it (relocating the nut) just to see how is changes the sound.

Good luck, homemade lap steels are fun and pretty cheap depending on how handy you are.