Build Your Own Lap Steel Guitar!
Start by downloading these vintage plans for making your own lap steel:
Then join in the discussion on building techniques, improvements to the plans and more.
Want even more lap steel goodness? Check out Guitar World's columns on making a lap steel from a 2x4 plank:
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So I got my lap steel painted up, ready to go, install the humbucker and it doesn't buck.. it hums I had the issue in my CBG with a single coil and attaching foil to ground all internals solved it. How might I quiet my lap steel with no insides to shield? It is wired correctly, and will quiet when I touch the jackplate or pickup
Read more…Hey I got a lap steel kit from CB Gitty and am about to drill the holes below the bridge for the string feed. Has anyone here put them together using the plans that come with the kit? If so, should the string feeds be a bit unevenly spaced as the directions show? It would have the two highest strings a bit closer to each other. I've never played a lap steel regularly so not sure what's normal. The directions show this spacing between strings from low to high 3/8, 3/8, 1/2, 1/2, 1/4 I feel…
Read more…I am building a simple lap steel. I would like to buy a pickup ( 6 string) that is already to go ( dont want to build it) Any suggestions on where to go to find one. My strings spacing on my bridge is 2.024 E-E center
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One step at a time. 8/4 Mahogony, Rosewood fretboard, Gotoh Tuners, and a leftover Fender single.
New guy in town. Aussie fiddler looking for somehing new.
Have started a build. Have worked with wood and am a fair violin luthier
Should be fun
Happy to be on board.
Ok Nice Looking Pup!! I just uploaded a couple of my Lap Steels over at the Lap steel group!! Check em out!! RL
Yes, the bridge pup is from Ted Crocker. Since taking that photo, I had Ted make a matching humbucker to replace the zebra h-bucker at the neck position.
Those look Great!! Curious?'' the one pic in the middle ...is the back pickup homemade!!
Very nice Scott!
A few of mine...
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