6/8/2023 0 Comments Building lap steel guitar pdf![]() ![]() It won't be an exact copy, but i wasn't going for total accuracy either. Disclaimer power tools and sharp cutting tools will be. In this, my first Instructable, I will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple Lap Steel guitar. I drew out a template, but ended up just making a bunch of layout lines on my wood and redrawing it by hand directly onto the wood to tweak a few little things here and there. The only measurement that's different on mine is that i believe the original necks on the Champions were 3' wide, whereas i made mine 2.75' wide. ![]() The quality didn't need to be super-clear, since i was just using it for measurements. I used a pretty large hi-res photo, and i think i ended up blowing it up to about 127%. Once they all seemed to match up, i was able to get the rest of the measurements off of it. I kept track of known measurements that i WAS able to find (or already knew), like tuner post diameter, scale length, body width and length, etc. ![]() I ended up finding a large, high-quality front-on photo of a Fender Champion and enlarged it in GIMP until it was the correct size. I'm in the process of building a Champion-style lap steel (the thread is around here somewhere.) i couldn't, for the life of me, find any PDF's or templates for any Fender lap steels online.
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