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A place to discuss lap steel/slide guitar and other incarnations of the instrument ala pedal steel guitar and non-pedal steel guitar. Feel free to discuss building, learning, playing, tunings, maintainance, of new and vintage instruments.
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Latest Activity: May 12
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Lap Guitar Tunings 14 Replies
I'm fairly new to the various tunings one can use for playing slide guitar. I'm also new to the concept of more than 6-strings! Bearing that in mind I just received a Fender Stringmaster D8 which…Continue
Started by John Gundrum. Last reply by fred davis Mar 17, 2012.
What Model Gibson Lap Steel Is This? 8 Replies
Can anyone identify for sure what model and/or year the below Gibson lap steel guitar is?Edward: Does the Gibson Steel Guitar book show this?Thanks!JohnContinue
Tags: steel, guitar, lap, gibson, model
Started by John Gundrum. Last reply by John Gundrum Sep 4, 2010.
Wood type for lap steel 1 Reply
I'm thinking of building my next lap steel from some old joists I have. They are 100 years old or more. I'm pretty certain they are pine but I have to double check. The size of the joists are…Continue
Tags: pine, wood, growth, old, lap
Started by John Gundrum. Last reply by Edward Sparks Aug 9, 2010.
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Comment by Edward Sparks on April 3, 2010 at 5:12pm -
One more recent picture of the headstock before and after sanding down the salt inlays...
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Comment by Edward Sparks on April 3, 2010 at 4:54pm
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I am so excited about this new group! I am have been building a lap steel from scratch as a side project now for a few years and it is almost finished...THEN I have to learn to play it. For a while I was looking for anyone who listed a lap steel in their arsenal instruments and asking them what tuning a beginner should start with, considering my goal sound is like the slide guitar on Neil Young's Harvest album! I believe that was a pedal steel, which I know is a totally different animal, but I just want that sound...and I really love Jackson Browne's sideman/partner, slide player David Lindley.
Anyway, most people told me that open "D" or open "E" would be a good a starting point, since the positions are so close to that of a regularly tuned guitar, which I am very familiar with.
Here is a recent pic of my lapsteel in progress...
Thanks again, Edward
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