Lap steel

My latest project. I had a single-wound pickup left over, so i decided to build a lap steel. Turned out pretty well; I followed the Seymour Duncan wiring diagram for a single-coil with volume and tone controls and.... It worked!Body is glued-up "select pine" lumber, fretboard maple with brass frets and fret markers punched out of flatpicks.The pickup mount/pickguard is just 1/8" hardwood plywood.
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  • Very nice!  You really ought to stay away from lap steels, though.  They are HIGHLY addicting - lol

  • Oh and there it is - sweet!!!

  • thank you for posting some info, most people just post pictures with no explanation of what the hell it is!

    for those of us who are not mind readers it can be confusing sometimes.

  • That is just really pleasing.  If I were a lap style player I would WANT it.
  • Pretty decent. I've been running it through my Behringer amp with a little overdrive. I need to do a tiny bit of work on the action to get the strings absolutely level, and I'll try to put a video up.
  • Nice job!
  • Nice. How does it sound?
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