Pedal Steel Fretboards Blog Redneck Pedal Steel Guitar Build. I have built several lap steel guitars and am currently working on a pedal steel guitar project. It has been a learning experience! Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates. Home 2X4 Lap Steel 10 String Practice Board.
Fretboard; Freboard inlays; Final pics. This is the shape I came up with. Almost any shape will do for a lap steel as long as it sits on your lap comfortably. You only really ever contact the strings. I don't have a template bushing for my router so I just made use of the geometry of the sub-base and make a rectangular.
This is the shape I came up with. Almost any shape will do for a lap steel as long as it sits on your lap comfortably. You only really ever contact the strings. Here is a PDF if you want to use mine as a template.

Free Lap Steel Guitar Plans

Marking the fret positions

Using three small pieces of double-faced tape, fasten a ruleparallel to one edge of the fretboard so that the zero-mark of therule is about 1/8' (3mm) from one end. Cut the zero-mark intothe fretboard surface with a razor knife and a square. Continue tomark all 24 fret positions on the fretboard surface. It isobviously impossible to work to an accuracy of one hundredth of amillimeter or one thousandth of an inch, so the figures will haveto be rounded up (5-9) or down (1-4) to tenths of a millimeter orhundredths of an inch. Try to be as accurate as possible whenlaying out the fret distances. When you have marked the zero-fretand all other frets (plus an additional one for the fingerboardend), double-check the distances by reading each position off therule and then comparing these values with the figures in the table.If the two differ by more than 0.3mm or 0.012', the mark hasto be recut. If you use a ruler with 1/64'-marks, you may findthe six 'nearest fractions' columns in the table on theopposite page helpful. Simply add up the values of a line: the 14thfret, for example, is located at 12' plus 15/32' plus1/128' (1/128' being halfway between two1/64'-marks). The 'Result' and 'Error'columns show the small and insignificant deviations from thecalculated values.

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