Pedal Steel Guitar Changer Finger

This movie shows ross shafer making changer finger stops for the new sierra pedal steel guitar.

Pedal steel guitar changer finger.

The part is then precision ground to 001 total tolerance and polished. Most steel guitar companies use aluminum for this part. The cables were attached to right and left sides of the pedal. Which rotates the bell crank finger which pulls the pull rods which pulls the changer finger.

It contains 1 rivet which connects the raise and lower fingers. The pedal rods rotate the cross rods and are stopped by the pedal stops. On the underside of the body you ll see the pedal rods attached to cross rods. On guitars with modern all pull changers there are 2 basic types of mechanisms.

Hold it there and tune with the left hand at the keyhead tune the string to the note you want it hit when you raise it. The end result is a finger with much less internal friction and undesired movement in the changer and provides a harder surface much more resistant to scratching. I tried something similar to that but ended up using two cables to a pedal where there were two pulls involved. The pedal stop may or may not be adjustable on your steel guitar.

A number of stock steel guitar pedals have two holes for pedal rod connectors so this was easy to do. The changer is the heart of a pedal steel guitar. Tune the changer for the pedal or knee lever that you are setting up reach under the guitar and push the bridge finger for one of the strings you plan to raise left all the way until it hits the body of the guitar. Makin chips changer finger stops.

Demonstration of a homemade pedal steel guitar pull finger and a testing jig.