I was tempted to use zip ties - as markers - but I found on ebay a fretboard - though that below the budget!

Glad you like it! I was shocked how it sounded, I should upload a song with it on.

Glad you enjoyed 🙂

I appreciate that! Thank you Phil!

Get it done 👍

That's a really neat idea. I bet those will look like telecaster style ones once installed. Thank you for the tip

are those the same as crimp nuts? that's what my next string ferrules will be.

Thank you Troy!

Very cool! I bet those components will make a great sounding lapsteel.

It is something on my mind at the minute.... maybe coming soon!

Thank you! Cheers! I think you will enjoy my latest video ;-)

Glad you liked it! Sounds good let me know if you get stuck or how you get on. I plan on making another one with some bending features - watch this space.

Thanks a lot!

That has to be the best song with slide guitar on!

Thank you Carlos, Let me know how you get on!

I have added some compression and a load of reverb which helps create a nice sound. Though do have a go at making you own, it is a fun project and it feels so good playing an instrument you made.

Just to keep the cost down. I have bought a fret board for it and it does look better and is easier to play haha.

Good for you.

Thank you! Cheers!

I'll try to build my own!!!

Thanks for watching!

Sure I will try my best

The distance doesn't matter, though I have added a fret markers to mine. So I had to match the printed design scale. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304157106404 Though i have seen people use zip ties / cable ties as markers and that works well, any scale length would work for that.

Hey, my next step was going to be a pedal steel. where select strings can be "bent" so that the chord changes. Though I think you have an interesting idea too, that would be very interesting, it would be hard to not have a delay.

@@deancoyle Yeah, the sliders would have to move fast and probably be designed to arrive at their target locations at the same time? How long do you have to switch a chord? To avoid a delay, you could program it to start the move early to arrive on the beat. More a project for an animatronic instrument builder than a manual instrument builder, lots of code and electronics. Not everyone's cup of tea...

@@deancoyle You might already have heard of them, but you can add benders to a lapsteel as well to get a similar system as a pedal steel but way easier and cheaper to set up.

I do plan on a making a large one of these soon. Stick around and see if it sounds as good. Do you play Lap Steel?

@@deancoyle I have a 25" scale length I had built years ago that has a simple minor-major set up on 6 strings plus two extra on top and two more on bottom with Reese Anderson style mods both top and bottom. This allows me, as a non-musician to find my way around one string at a time - which I consider to be the best sound - while being able to emulate most any sound you'd want to hear on lap steel guitar. I spent years adjusting the string tensions and proximity of the string master magnets to come up with the fullest and balanced sound. It sounded pretty good to begin with but now I think it's on a par with Bobby Ingano's A22 Ricky. I'm ready to do the same for another guitar with a short scale length and maybe P90 pickups but the pickups you used are really sounding full and good to my ear.

Aluminum L section. I wouldn't worry too much on the size. Use what you can find. Also could be steel? Good luck

What an idea! Do you think it will work?

​@@deancoyle Maybe there's a soft-synth way to find out, or borrow/hire one of the pedals. I want to build one of these with the core concept of having any sound, but using the hands to organically express the pitch, envelope, and even timbre.

I went for a 22.5in scale. There is a seller on ebay who sells a 22.5in fretboard in the fender deluxe style. I did think of adding this, but it would push the budget out a bit. I have also seen other people just use zipties as fret markers. So many options!

I just looked on ebay for the cheapest ones that looked ok. It took some fining, but I paid about £1 per tuner.

Yeah that should be fine

I used a Epiphone one I had in the parts bin, I think it was from a budget Les Paul.

That sounds like an interesting project! Please do share what you come up with :-)

I went for an open major chord, do D A D F# A . There are so many options of what can work, its a science in itself! Wait for pedals to be added to the mix!

@@deancoyle Thank you !

It is from B and Q. A hardware shop in the UK. Sorry I cant find a link online to that one. I am surprised it makes that much difference.

I record it plugged straight into the focusrite soundcard, then added a some reverb in my DAW (reaper). I should show this with a volume pedal, as that adds a new dynamic to the instrument.

@@deancoyle aww ok

22.5in scale length, this was based on a aluminium fretboard in a fender style that someone is selling on ebay, though it pushes the price up a bit.

@@deancoyle I like it

Haha good spot, I just want to appeal to everyone...

@@deancoyle thanks for the video though I'm going to start building my own this week

I think you can do most of this with hand tools. It will take a little longer though...

Is it just the same but wider? We will need a bigger pickup, and some more space that the headstock end. I want to add pedals next to mine...

​@@deancoyle or use a few pickups staggered like on a P Bass? I was wondering about possibility of using sliders for the pickups - so you can move them to different nodal points. Or bass strings. I got so many swapped out pickups and spare string sets. Looks like a fun use for them. With 2 pickups / outputs and a focus right I guess stereo becomes a thing - Rickenbacker style. And some Zoom FX on this would make for very adaptable sound.

Proper pickups are available from boutique pickup makers , notably Jason Loller . But that will take it out of the $20 build category . Your cheap option is copy of a Lipstick pickup , in the original Danelectro dimensions . They are available from Guitar Fetish , and probably others .