rectumbacker 3

Yeah , shoot me if ya want , but , I took a late 50’s / early 60’s vintage Rickenbacker lap steel and morphed it into this .It was just the wood husk when I got it ,,. So it was not worth restoring to original ..It would have cost 10 times more to restore than buying one mint and original .Anyway .. it has a car light bulb encased in an antique telephone handset bar .This is to apply light so you can’t blame bad lighting on bad playing … but,… it is not hooked up and has no wires , and is fake , and does nothing but fool people into thinking you are not worried about blamining bad playing on bad lighting ;-)The switches complement the light that does not do a dam thing , and are fine tuned to do the same .The water knob acts as a diversion from the parts that don’t do a dam thing .. which probably won’t matter or have that effect ,, but at least it will detract from the fact that the knob don’t do a dam thing either . ;-)The slide holder is functional and holds a slide that was cut from a Harley handle bar .There rest is a basic cool FULLY WORKING LAP STEEL.ive got it set up as a 3 string and one bass .with a mini humbucker wired straight to jack .And it’s cool enough to forgive me for trashing a classic ;-)Leather , carpet tacs , cupboard Handel , embossed tin , slide holder and mojo ;-)
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  • We did the lights thing once,BluesHeart,But speaking of laziness,I still haven't changed the batts in my Swamp Witch that the Pickster worked so hard to make.But I guarantee when it gets to me ..........I WILLL Light it up allright,

  • wouldnt  take  much  ..  ;-)

     i  blame  lazyness  at that  point  ;-)

     

  • Really would be cool to have the bulb light up and make even have a little brass hood so it only lights the strings. Youv'e gone that far, whats another 30-40 hours?

  • thanx    man  ..  i    guess this   falls  into  the  "steampunk "  style   of  design  . which  is pretty  popular these days  .  

  • Liking your concept on this one. May just have to build one of my own using some of the weird stuff I have laying around. Your stuff is inspirational.

  • thanx   man  ..  considering trades on this one 

  • Cool build Mr Pick!

  •  thats what i meant, good build i like it !!! 

  • umm ..  it  works      great  !! and sounds    great !!!   as a regular   lap   steel.  

     .  ..  just  the  decorations  are  not  functional  .

      (to  be  clear  )    ;-)

     

  • who cares if it dont work?, its a RECTUMBACKER !!! 

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