Steel Guitar Buyer's Guide

Guideline #4

Look for a Semi-Production Steel Guitar.

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"Semi-production steel guitars can provide better values at a lower price."

Manufacturing processes which require repeatable precision (such as machining, stamping, turning, sawing, and routing) are best performed by automated CNC machinery^* because CNC automation is more consistent, accurate, and cost-efficient.

The benefit of using these automated processes is that each part is exactly like the next and easily interchangeable by the purchaser or the builder. Every part fits precisely without modification.

Lower costs mean lower prices to you. These volume production techniques allow the builder to produce higher quality steel guitars while maintaining reasonable prices.

The steel guitar can then be "customized" for you by a skilled craftsman, who takes the parts of the instrument in hand to buff, fit, finish, assemble, install electronics, install your setup (copendant)^**, and adjust the mechanics.

^*CNC stands for Computer Numeric Control.
Further Reading about CNC:
"What IS CNC?", by Mike Lynch, President of CNC Concepts, Inc.

^**Beginners or anyone who would like ideas for their setup may want to take a look at our Most Requested Tunings.

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