DIY Pedal Steel Guitar - PT2 - Creating a Body

In this part we get in the shed and actually start making a pedal steel guitar. This is a project I have been looking forward to for a while.
I thought it would be fun to take what we learnt making the slide guitar to the next level, and it is time to add some pedals. I really like the ideal of being able to play a chord and morph it in to a new chord, by bending individual strings.
What songs do you enjoy that feature the pedal steel guitar?
I think that pedal steel sound is really unique and it has the futuristic metallic sound similar to how I enjoy the sound of electric pianos.
I make some mistakes and make some improvements as I progress this design.
Please do let me know your thoughts on this design and how you might change it. I know there are a few DIY guitars out there so it would be interesting to hear from others that have created their own.
Please join me for the next part where I create the body.

[@JoseMabok]

I know I’m arrogant. I am a master carpenter at it for 50 years minus a stink in the army. I absolutely love you attitude towards tools and methods of work. I came for the info, I’ll hang for you I think. Much thanks.

[@deancoyle]

Thank you 😊

[@karmakarmakarma]

Thanks for this project and documenting it. I build instruments including several single and double neck lap steels. I've thought about doing a DIY pedal steel, but have never really settled on a way to solve for the changer and pedals. Thought about bowden cables, thought about more traditional linkage, etc. Really curious to see how you go after that part of the build. Thanks again.

[@maxinehardy9411]

excited to see you making progress! any reason in particular why you used treated lumber? i try to work with it as little as possible because pt is hell on your lungs and your tools without any benefits unless youre building a deck. im also a little worried about your headstock; theres going to be a lot of force from the strings pulling on it, and the way youve cut the wedge greatly weakened the headstock because of the way the grain is oriented now. it might not be a problem, but its something to watch out for.
i wanted to build a pedal steel guitar too a couple of years ago and gave up because i didnt want to bother with figuring out and manufacturing the fiddly mechanisms, so im looking forward to seeing how you tackle everything. i ended up settling on a lap steel with palm benders, and ran into the same problems with finding tunings, too 😁