[QUOTE=Silly Moustache;5017281]For playing in "lap style" then the action needs to be quite high as there is no fretting involved.
It IS possible to play with a bottleneck only - with no fretting, but one usually frets chords and play fretted bass lines as normal, and generally uses the bottleneck (be it glass, brass, steel, ceramic or tungsten carbide) for melodic lines and riffs.
A "slightly" higher action, or a thicker 1st string can help but the "art" of bottleneck is to use as little pressure over one or two strings as accurately as possible with the bottleneck putting the power into the notes with the picking hand.
This is my (very) humble style using a guitar set up with low action :
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