This is my almost finished new lap steel. It's inspired in the 1934 Rickenbacker model. Body in african mahogany with pao ferro fingerboard (I love this wood) and sycamore "fret" inlays and binding. The face plate of the headstock is ovangkol with a triple layer of sycamore (w/b/w) and the body plates are african ebony. It has a T model GFS hb pickup with a "cut" switch to single coil. Nut in water buffalo horn. Only remains grain filling and some shots of nitro. Enjoy it.
Rick Lap Steel
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Loverly! I am quite a fiend for steel guitar, slide & pedal steels.... in the "desert island" scenario there is NO CONTEST in my mind, though I do hope for room service & good coffee or I ain't goin'...
If you need to waste away giant portions of your life staring at little machines, here are a few links:
http://steelguitarbuilder.com/forum/index.php
Not a whole lot of traffic, but reliable info. However, for ALL THING STEEL - and most other music questions too, from theory to building to contacts - I live at the Steel Guitar Forum. It squeaks by here as the all-time best music website:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/index.php
It skews much older, and a higher professional/amateur ratio then anywhere else. $5 or a purchase to join/post, but lurking's free. This is a fun thread, 13 pages of steel guitar everywhere else EXCEPT country:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=208507
This guy on a six-string lap steel, composed this jazz suite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0AJLXAm9LU
This is a friend of mine on "real" steel:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dave+easley+international+steel
A bottomless pit indeed....
If you need to waste away giant portions of your life staring at little machines, here are a few links:
http://steelguitarbuilder.com/forum/index.php
Not a whole lot of traffic, but reliable info. However, for ALL THING STEEL - and most other music questions too, from theory to building to contacts - I live at the Steel Guitar Forum. It squeaks by here as the all-time best music website:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/index.php
It skews much older, and a higher professional/amateur ratio then anywhere else. $5 or a purchase to join/post, but lurking's free. This is a fun thread, 13 pages of steel guitar everywhere else EXCEPT country:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=208507
This guy on a six-string lap steel, composed this jazz suite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0AJLXAm9LU
This is a friend of mine on "real" steel:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dave+easley+international+steel
A bottomless pit indeed....
