GeorgeBoards™ RetroFit UpGrade Kit Fits Rogue and similar Lap Steel Guitar - Tough Pla C6 A6 Type Tunings White Fretboard Peel N Stick

This sale is for the 3D printed Tough Pla nut and bridge plus th Peel and Stick Fretboard

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Several Import Lap Steel Guitars Sell on internet sales places under the Brand Names including Rogue Rosetti Artisan. These lap steel guitars are 21 scale with low quality normal Guitar bridge Saddles and Formed Plastic nuts with normal guitar spacings.GeorgeBoards has created a DIY KIT to convert your import lap steel guitar into a playable 22.5" scale with string spacing and height found on Professionally Made Modern Slide Steel Lap Guitars.

The Nut & Bridge are 3D printed Tough PLA and sound great they have spacings and V Grooves ready to go.

Easy to install in a few short hours using basic screwdrivers and a battery drill for 2 holes in the metal plate.

This Peel N Stick Fretboard is White with Black Lines and Markers.

The video above is to help you visualize you RetroFit — This sales is C6 A6 nut and bridge

Installing this Kit requires Effort and Ingenuity.

The fit is tight and we place the nut a little over the slots to get the full 22.5”.

1  To make the RetroFit you remove the strings - plastic nut - guitar saddles - plastic fretboard.

2  Remove the Screws and save them from the metal piece under the saddles - The plate is Now your string receiver.

3  Move the metal piece back to the edge of the end of the guitar. Blue Tape it to the edge to hold it in place.

4  Use your tape measure to place the New Nut and Bridge temporarily - use the new fretboard to help place the nut.

5  Make sure the Bridge is in front of the 3  screws at the back of the guitar not on top of them.

6  Blue tape everything for temporary alignment. Tweak all of this until it lays out nicely.

7  Mark where the Bridge hold down holes are going to go through the metal plate and into the wood below.

8  Remove the metal plate and drill holes through it on a separate area so not to drill into the guitar.

9  Return the metal plate and attach it to the guitar with the 3 little screws and 2 in the front. 

10 Use 2 screws to fill the holes in front of the metal plate.

11 Use your tape measure to place the nut and bridge at 22.5" - Blue tape both.

12 Use #4 X 3/4" Sheet Metal Screws to hold down the Nut and Bridge at 22.5" 

Make sure the fretboard fits in front of the metal pickguard plate or     slip it under the plate a little.

Measure multiple times before drilling.

13 Make sure the little ground wire is under the metal plate you moved back. The plate is your string receiver.

14 Fill the holes from the plastic fretboard with chalk - putty  - spackle - toothpicks - whatever.

15 Clean off any debris or oils with rubbing alcohol and peel n stick down the new fretboard.

16 Replace the original strings with new gauged strings for your choice of tuning the VGrooves will fit lighter and heavier gauges. 

17 Remember this is an C6 A6 type  tuning  Spacings 11/32 nut - 3/8 Bridge VGrooves for .046 - .014 gauges or similar.

18 Bring it up to pitch and adjust the pickup height to taste.