The Steel Guitar
Information Resource

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Welcome to The Steel Guitar Information Resource.

Carter Steel Guitars has established this web site to provide you with information on how to maintain, adjust, and repair your pedal steel guitar. You can use this site as an online owner's manual for most steel guitars.

You are invited to become more familiar with your guitar and its mechanics. We strongly believe that proper and timely maintenance, along with a basic understanding of the mechanics, will increase both:

1. the life of your steel and
2. most importantly:   the enjoyment and satisfaction you have playing it!

This web site is intended as a basic guide and is not meant to cover every specific situation encountered in pedal steel guitar repair and maintenance. Please feel free to contact us with your questions and suggestions for topics of interest or subjects not yet mentioned on this web site.

It should be noted that some of the material is directed more toward all-pull mechanisms. The reason for this is that all-pull mechanisms represent over 80% of all pedal steel guitars in existence and nearly 100% of all pedal steel guitars being made today.

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