The British Steelies Society

S10, E9, 3 + 4.
This is an all-pull with 3 raise, 2 lower changer.
Cabinet top, neck and front & rear aprons are solid Maple.
Undercarriage is almost exclusively fabricated in alloy to save weight.
Bell cranks etc. mounted on square section cross shafts.
Floor pedals have adjustable, positive stops & pedal rods have adjustment for height.
Knee levers have adjustable, positive stops + adjustment for lever throw.
GeorgeLs pickup.
Velvet lined hard shell case (bottom half), soft leg and pedal rod bag with separate compartments.

What it doesn't have:
It doesn't have a "big name" on the front;
It doesn't have adjustable legs -- height from floor to underside of rear apron = 26" (66Cm)
(Height from floor to strings = 30.25" - 77cm.)
It doesn't have perfectly cloned and machined components "under the bonnet" as almost everything was fabricated by hand.
All in all, as a pedal steel everything works perfectly.
Looking for £975.00

*** Now if anyone can advise me how to post photos on this I'll be very grateful*** While there is an "Img" icon above, I cannot get it to do anything, no matter what I try.

To post an image you need to upload it onto the Web somewhere (there are free image hosting sites) and paste the URL for the image between the img tags. So it will look like:

<img>https://theurlofyourimage.jpeg</img>

except with square brackets instead of the angled brackets.

OK Sam, thanks ~ here's my first attempt >

** EDIT: Don't know why it is only displaying half of the image???

Can't help you there, sorry. Maybe try reducing the size of the images?

Where are you based?

Location: Near Edinburgh.

Very weird stuff here -- the above image only appears as HALF on my laptop, but on my tablet and phone it is full size.
So, I'm attempting again, using a different image hosting site.

That looks great, the idea of making something like that by hand blows my mind. It must have taken years!

Hi Sam,
That's my fifth self build.
It took around 2 - 3 months start to finish.
By far the most difficult parts were the smallest -- the brass rollers for the nut are the worst - getting the hole perfectly in the centre was a bit of a nightmare!

Amazing. Did you use an existing instrument as a template, or is it all your own design?

Just made it from accumulated experience from building the previous steels.
My first one was crude in the extreme (1978) - the legs & pedal board were wooden and I got the bellcranks welded on to the cross shafts.
It worked but it didn't last long. PSG #2 came along the next year.
There is one thing in the build that has to be extremely accurate and that's the string length -- by that I mean the distance from the top centre of the nut rollers to the top centre of the changer fingers. That's determined by the scale length which is dictated by whichever scale of fretboard is used.

Can a Moderator please archive this post.