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My First Homemade Lap Steel

My first Lap build I did a few years ago....Started out as a Flying V shape but wound up with this...Fretboard is Cedar.... Back pup is a Maxon Humbuck from a early Ibanez...front single is a dummy at the moment the Nut is a AVCO flat tonebar ...Was

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Newbie Just joined!!

Howdy Thought I'd introduce myself... I'm RL Rainwater a guitarhead ...and have been retired  for 10 years now!! Whoa!! That long!!... been playin guitar since the mid 70's main interest are slide and lap steel  styles plus acoustic gtr, Uke and Bass

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#2 Homemade Lap Steel

My second build was based on my old Magnatone built around the same time as the first one ... has went through some different Pickups and Bridge changes... now has Tele stye bridge w/ GFS tele humbuck... front pup has old 70's Dimarzio humbucker with

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