Down the Lap Steel rabbit hole

[Papa Dafoe]

Those are very cool turnings.
I'm new to this. The GBDGBD has Been my main tuning. Those were very inspirational.
Thanks for the info!

If you don't mind me asking, What Voicing do you use for C6?

-ST

Honestly, I’ve never used C6 myself, only the three tunings in the previous post.
D, Gmaj9 and now open G dobro. I have my 7 string tuned open G with a low D. DGBDGBD

If I need to hit a minor chord I either pluck a 1-5 (g string and d string) or strum a 1-b3 (b string and d string).

I am pretty new to it too.

 

[hotraman]

This is my 8 string lap steel.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Biuk2F7HVJT/

 

[hotraman]

and this is my pedal steel / guitar set up.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnmlSgunuQ-/

 

[verb boten]

Having read this, I had to try it. WOW! Digging the heck out of it!

Great Country Swing Tuning.

I agree, and it fits so well progressing to the D string at the 2nd fret, it really belongs.

 

[verb boten]

and this is my pedal steel / guitar set up.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnmlSgunuQ-/

Nice! And i like the reso in the background, a real beauty.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Couldn’t do the flat thing .

I can play slide better than your average guitar player but - not lap style .

I had a 54 fender double 6 with those monstrous triangle pickups but I couldn’t do it justice at all - so I sold it .

 

[Paul in Colorado]

Where did you find that 7 string National? I had a Rick like that. I found it in a pawn shop in Santa Rosa, CA in the '70's, I think. It was great to have when I was a touring sound guy as it fit easily in the van.

Nice collection there!

I’ve fallen this deep into the rabbit hole... and still falling I think.

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[Papa Dafoe]

Where did you find that 7 string National? I had a Rick like that. I found it in a pawn shop in Santa Rosa, CA in the '70's, I think. It was great to have when I was a touring sound guy as it fit easily in the van.

Nice collection there!

Found it on Reverb. Located in Canada. I can’t remember what I paid, but I remember that it was a good price.

 

[Papa Dafoe]

The plan for this week is back to Open D. Should be good for blues, which is mostly what I play.

DADF#AD

I’m going to leave my Rickenbacker in G/D aka Gmaj9 GBDF#AD for home practice because it just seems so darn versatile.

I definitely need to take a break from experimenting so much, find a tuning that works for me, and then try to get good on it.

 

[Papa Dafoe]

Current tuning:
My own weird version of D6

DBDF#AD

Only disadvantage is the big jump from the lowest D to the B (1 to 6).

Big advantage is the minor triad from the B string, and the 6-string minor 7 chords that can be built on the open B string as the root.

 

[Papa Dafoe]

Exactly one year later, and I’m still in the rabbit hole! The 7 string National replaced by a seven string Rickenbacker Bakelite B7,
current tunings G9 (Gmaj + Dmin)
GBDFAD
and
DGBDFAD

 

[wrathfuldeity]

In the 70's had an 8 string made out of a slab o'hog got it from an elderly neighbor who played. Never figured out to do much of anything on it and don't remember what happened to it. But at the time ran it in to a Twin with JBL's...and it would take your head right off...lol.

 

[Bob Womack]

I play whatever tuning the song requires. I work in D and E and Em but I've been known to reach down and flat or sharp a string while tracking in the studio to make a song happen. I play a couple of guitars, a modern Gretsch Electromatic G5715:

and a 1945 Supro Supreme Hawaiian Guitar Model 1400:

With the strings-though pickup this one sounds a lot like a tele. The ancient celluloid mother of toilet seat, which is in excellent shape, makes me less than enthusiastic to truck this one around to live gigs.

It's an ugly little spud, but my lovely wife says it is so ugly it is cute. She actually talked me into buying the thing.

I'd love to try an early Rickenbacker G6 but there hasn't one in the cards yet.

Bob

 

[Toto'sDad]

Lap Steels are pretty cool.
Love the designs.

I Built this one about Five Yearas ago from Slotted Channel. Trade Names include Unistrut, Powerstrut, B-Line, Kindorf...
I Made the Slide from 3/4" Schedule 40 Stainless Steel Pipe.
The Tuners are Grovers.
THe Pick-up is one of the First DiMarzio Super Distortions from '72.
Sucker really Screams.
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Coincidence? Or something far more sinister?

 

[String Tree]

Coincidence? Or something far more sinister?

FWIW - The original intent was for Peacful purposes.
I like to think of it as a manifestation from the musings of a guy in his Garage thinking about his hardware store roots.
YEP!!!

 

[Toto'sDad]

FWIW - The original intent was for Peacful purposes.
I like to think of it as a manifestation from the musings of a guy in his Garage thinking about his hardware store roots.
YEP!!!

He said ROOTS!

I'm sorry really I am, it was the best I could do on short notice.

 

[String Tree]

FWIW - The original intent was for Peacful purposes.
I like to think of it as a manifestation from the musings of a guy in his Garage thinking about his hardware store roots.
YEP!!!

My Favorite Slide is an old 7/8" Deep Socket, 1/2" drive for better Tone!

 

[String Tree]

He said ROOTS!

I'm sorry really I am, it was the best I could do on short notice.

Don't you worry none, ain't the ferst tyme I been un-understood.