It S Easy To Build Your Own Lap Steel Guitar

Anybody can build this lap steel guitar.

It s easy to build your own lap steel guitar.

As you can tell i m still learning how to play this properly. Ours is made from english oak with a sycamore fretboard and ebony black plastic inlay. The book describes the building of two lap steel guitars. However that doesn t mean that the instrument lacks anything a lap steel guitar needs and it can be played just as well as any other lap steel instrument.

32 800mm scale length 22 5 571 5mm 19 16 40mm 4 100mm. It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels. Oct 14 2019 explore pat mitchell s board lap steel plans on pinterest. A lap steel guitar is an easy instrument to make since it requires none of the detailed shaping and fretwork required when building other types of guitars.

In this my first instructable i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar. The lap steel plays great too. The simple one shown on the left and a more conventional lap steel guitar. Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached.

Classic art deco style instrument and a very unusual lap steel. Building a basic lap steel guitar. Hudson steel guitars is now offering lap steel guitar kits. See more ideas about lap steel lap lap steel guitar.

Here s a quick video below. Building a lap steel guitar. For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel. Power tools and sharp cutting tools will be used and i take no responsibility for people who use these things carelessly read and.

Champ style kits price is 349 95 string master kits price is 319 95 a hard case kit for champ or string master style is 90 00 all prices are plus shipping. I have a champ style kit in right handed or left handed and a string master style single neck only kit. All you need is a little patience some supplies and a desire to craft your own instrument. Because building a lap steel is relatively easy it provides an excellent introduction into the art of guitarbuilding.

He even explains how to make your own guitar pickup using the world s simplest pickup winder. Excerpt from the book it s easy to build your own lap steel guitar. Scale length is 22 5 as per the original and the pickup is by entwistle p90 type.