Lowell Kiesel started out making steel guitars and amplifiers in San Diego.

i've taken a break from it for a week or two to catch up on some other things in life, but i'll be picking up the build again in the next few days. If you are looking for information on pedal steel guitar models and. Search the Tele Home Depot forum for a thread titled 'Fender Champion-inspired Lap Steel' for build photos and details. it won't be an exact copy, but i wasn't going for total accuracy either. 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. They were scanned from the original and sent in eight different parts. The plans feature a lap steel guitar with full schematics. 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. lap steel & CBG guitar plans lap steel & CBG guitar plans 77 Pins 4y S Collection by Steve Storms Sr. 1965 Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar Plans Full Size PDF Download We recently received these plans from Hubcap John Hayward which were originally featured in Practical Wireless Magazine in London in 1965. 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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