I purchased the Rogue on a SDoD...seemed like the way to go as I wanted to "just see" what it was all about. Works for me.
Do You Lap Steel?
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I purchased the Rogue on a SDoD...seemed like the way to go as I wanted to "just see" what it was all about. Works for me.
I've been rampning up my skills on this late 1936 National New Yorker. It sounds fabulos through my Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb! Haven't used it with the band yet, or even with other players as I've been working hard on my intonation. I couldn't stand being the room with myself there for a while, so i wouldn't subject anyone else to my "skills" at that point. I'm getting better, if still pretty rudimentary, but the notes are sounding sweeter.
DOC DYA
Tele-Meister
Harley Benton Slider II for me too. Good enough to start with lap steel and try different tunings. Then, you might have to upgrade...
Fiesta Red
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New to the lap steel game, but I’m enjoying it quite a bit…it is a natural extension to my regular slide playing.
https://www.tdpri.com/threads/hnsgd.1070247/
https://www.tdpri.com/threads/hnsgd.1070247/
I was recently gifted this Silvertone lap steel, supposedly from the 50s but I'm not sure which year. I gave it a couple tries but I don't think I'll pursue it.
ping-ping-clicka
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does your poor old elderly ignored lap steel need a new home?
I can provide thepoor old thing with the loving and care that it needs?
ping-ping-clicka
Poster Extraordinaire
careful these gals will get you hooked if you take the first flirt.
Freeman Keller
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I keep thinking I should put together a lap steel but all I have right now are acoustics
dh
Tele-Meister
Yep. Got a SX a few years ago. I play it in C6 tuning. It adds a great dimension to our covers of Eagles tunes as well as others that are more slide guitar oriented. Our audiences really like it and I get more compliments on my lap steel playing than anything else.
Telecaster88
Tele-Afflicted
I got into lap steel three or so years ago, prompted by a Peavey Powerslide that was hanging on my local shop's used wall and too cheap to pass up. I quickly added an Eastwood Airline and Gretsch G220, to keep in different tunings. I'm mainly trying to learn C6, but I keep the Powerslide in Open E. It's a crazy looking instrument but sounds great, and is actually pretty craftily designed, as noted above.
Dave Hicks
Friend of Leo's
A '59 Silvertone (I think - see below) and an early 50's Champion (photo below isn't mine, which has lost a lot of it's mother-of-dinette skin). Haven't played much in while, but I think I know somebody who gives lessons, so maybe I'll get masef in gear.
D.H.
http://silvertoneworld.net/steelguitars/steel.html
D.H.
http://silvertoneworld.net/steelguitars/steel.html
Bob Womack
Friend of Leo's
After being inspired by Steve Howe of YES I started lap steel for a side skill back in 1976. By 2007 I was using it fairly regularly in recording sessions. I've followed the usual path looking for lap steel sounds and ended up at one of the usual termini of such a search:
1940 Rickenbacher B-6
More, HERE.
Bob
1940 Rickenbacher B-6
More, HERE.
Bob
I jam on mine from time to time. Good enough to improv to a blues tune but that's as far as I've taken it.
bottlenecker
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That looks a lot like a valco baseplate for a string through pickup. I think someone just modded it with a different pickup, and put some round stock in front of the bridge to clear it.
Mojohand40
Tele-Afflicted
Lap steel is my main instrument these days..
Here is my latest acquisition; a nice old Magnatone Troubadour...I'm thinking 1949 based on the finish etc. Here's a video I made playing it. Just a great vintage tone
Here is my latest acquisition; a nice old Magnatone Troubadour...I'm thinking 1949 based on the finish etc. Here's a video I made playing it. Just a great vintage tone
El Marin
Friend of Leo's
I am building one.
Well actually is already built. A friend of mine has a Repair car Garage is painting it for me
Well actually is already built. A friend of mine has a Repair car Garage is painting it for me
runstendt
Tele-Meister
When I have time, which admittedly isn't often, I love to play Hawaiian style music on my lap steel. I had one of the previously mentioned Rogue lap steels for a while, and it was not a bad instrument, but I sold it after I got one made by Recording King that was simply a better instrument. They're fun to play, and I highly recommend giving it a shot. For what it's worth, I use a lap steel bar when I'm playing pedal steel because it is more comfortable for me personally, plus I like using the little "hook" on the end to get one or two strings at a time.
57joonya
Tele-Afflicted
Hah, no thx - I’ve had this thing for almost 30 yrs , I love it,but it has been. Neglected,your thread just reminded me to dust it off ,so thx
Telecaster88
Tele-Afflicted
I'm envious of all you guys with these beautiful vintage instruments. In my neck of the woods the vintage models that come up for sale are all super expensive. Luckily I don't think there's much that can go wrong when building even the cheapest lap steel, and my modern models all sound fine to me. But you guys got some lookers, for sure!
Dave Hicks
Friend of Leo's
I wanted a vintage instrument of my own vintage, but the only one I could really afford was the Fender - it was $300 something. (I don't really know what year it is, so I'm pretending.) The Silvertone was $250 (?), but that was a somewhat high price for that model.
D.H.
