1st Lap Steel Build
1st Lap Steel Build
Hi, new to the forum and to lap steel building and thought I'd share my first attempt. I've made a couple of instruments before including Diddley Bos and a couple of stick dulcimers, but a friend asked if I could have a go at a lap steel. She broke her wrist a few years ago and can no longer bar or pay the guitar for too long so a lap steel seemed like the ideal solution, plus she's a big Carolyn Wonderland fan!
It's being done on a really tight budget, so the pickup is an unknown humbucker that a friend had laying around, while the rest of the hardware cost less than £14 off eBay. At the moment the bridge might be a Tele style ashtray item because it was cheap, but a dig behind the bench turned up a slab of aluminium that may well get turned into something more useful! The body is a piece of old growth spruce that was found in amongst the usual rubbish at the local builders merchants, together with some bits of birch ply I had laying about.
It's being done on a really tight budget, so the pickup is an unknown humbucker that a friend had laying around, while the rest of the hardware cost less than £14 off eBay. At the moment the bridge might be a Tele style ashtray item because it was cheap, but a dig behind the bench turned up a slab of aluminium that may well get turned into something more useful! The body is a piece of old growth spruce that was found in amongst the usual rubbish at the local builders merchants, together with some bits of birch ply I had laying about.
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And there's pics if I can figure out how to make my phone upload them!
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Pic s you might try and send them to your email address and then to your documents where you can download them to the forum.
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Hope this works!
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- Figuring out where it all goes.
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One more.
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- Two layers glued together and the templates for routing the body and neck shape.
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And again.
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- Head angle cut and planned flat and square.
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Looking good Hangtight, keep posting.
Regards Ron Mc
Regards Ron Mc
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Is it just me, or are the limits on the size and orientation of pictures completely infuriating?!