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09.30.2024

Comfortable LKL angle

I believe that pedal steel guitars need to be completed by the player himself, not by the builder.
What I mean is that pedal steel needs to be adjusted by the player himself/herself according to his/her physique, sitting position, and preferences, and I want to make steel that allows this.

I wish my customers lived in my neighborhood and could bring their steel guitars to me for adjustment, but that is not the case.
It is understandable that you are anxious about buying a steel guitar from a builder in Japan, a faraway foreign country.

The LKL angle issue in particular has been giving me a lot of trouble.
Those who sit near the 12th fret prefer to have the LKL at nearly a right angle to the strings, while those who sit closer to the changer prefer to have the LKL at a larger angle.

In other words, the preferred LKL angle is too different for each player, so there is a limit to what I can adjust before shipping.

If the angle of the LKL is not right for you, the edge(corner) of the knee lever will hurt against the side of your knee, right?
After much trial and error, I came up with a pivot system to rotate LKL to adjust and fix it at an arbitrary angle.
This allows the player to perfectly adjust the LKL to the desired angle by himself.

By the way, I like to sit around the 19th to 21st fret.