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My 4 lap steels...
After so many years of intense study of the guitar, I have fallen in love with lap steel. It’s like finding a new undiscovered room in a house you’ve lived in all your life.
Left to right: 1960 Supro, 1948 Gibson BR-9, 1940 Rickenbacher (yes, that's how it was originally spelled), 1938 Oahu Last edited by 815C; 07-25-2019 at 06:17 PM. |
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Yep. Lap steels are real nice. I have a modded 40s Silvertone with a JazzMaster pickup, and a 1942-43 Supro Irene.
Fun stuff ! I play them in several tunings.
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That's why they developed the multi-neck pedal steel - unless you're Andre the Giant, it's a mite difficult balancing them all at the same time...
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I've got a Supro Supreme Hawaiian Model 1400 that looks to be from the last year of the War and sounds a bunch like a Tele. It's got the captive, cotton covered cord so one day it'll go on the fritz and I'll have to replace it. For most sessions I use a modern Gretsch G5715 that won me with its smooth sound. Bob
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1957 T-8 and 1960 D-8 Fender Stringmasters Tunings left to right: 1938 Oaho - A6 1940 Ric - Bbdim9 1948 Gibson BR-9 - B11 1957 T-8: Neck 1 = C6 (high G), Neck 2 - E13, Neck 3 - C6 (high E) 1960 Supro - C6 1960 D-8: Neck 1 - Bbdim, Neck 2 - A6 Last edited by 815C; 02-16-2019 at 06:08 PM. |
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Bob, I've wondered about those Gretsch models. I've not played one yet.
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The Gretsch has a mahogany body, metal nut and bridge, formidable hardware. A pretty good gig bag is available and I got one. The only negative is a tighter string spacing than the Supro.
Bob
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Nice. Had a Ric Panda like that. Fine sounding piece. Lap steels are reasonably priced too . . . . . in most cases.
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this is my 42-48 national in c6 and my asher electro hawaiian jr. in open E [IMG][/IMG]
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I have an early 50s BR 6 that has a great P 90. |
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my friend coupe has a br6 and it is a great steel. play music!
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I currently have two lap steels now. My Gibson... My Oahu... Here's the Oahu in a song... |
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Very cool. All of them. I think I need one.
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Laps are cool, when I retired from my day job I spent the first 4 years making custom lap steels and marketing construction information on my website. I gave up laps after doing about 100 customs and moved on to open back banjos. Some folks specified Lollars or other specific pickups but most had my own 6, 7, or 8 string split single coil humbuckers.
For those that may want to make their own you can still access the information and a few of the construction plans from the internet archive of my old website: http://web.archive.org/web/201603130...com/page5.html Last edited by Rudy4; 02-20-2019 at 04:26 PM. |