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Comment by Michael Baker on June 30, 2012 at 3:55am

Walking past a charity shop saw a pair horrible curtains ,the type that has large rings sewn in them,poped in got them for a couple of quid,They come in two parts metal one side and black plastic the other,so i now have 36 1 1/2" id holes .

Comment by Rick Hayes on March 11, 2012 at 10:30pm

Made with a broken neck from my grandson Miles attached to a $3 galvanized dogdish from Walmart, with a spline from a scrap of cherry wood and an oak bridge made from scraps from my father's basement. Can be set up for 6 strings like a guitar or 5 strings like a banjo, with a small screw for the 5th string nut. I like the sound, sounds like I thought it would, letting the new strings settle in.

Comment by Rick Hayes on July 25, 2011 at 10:29am

New pics of the dual coffee can 3-string reso-crutch lap steel. When I was testing it, I hit a string while lowering it into the can and it was surprising how it changed the sound. Bolted it on ... done. Usual Sharpie frets mark the 22.5" scale.

Comment by Rick Hayes on July 25, 2011 at 1:02am

A few years ago, I made a crutch lap guitar with a coffee can resonator, thought it was original until I found a picture of one very similar on the net. I have just rebuilt it, for my own fun, but shortened it to make it easier to play in a small space. It's Stumpy, the 3-string reso-crutch lap steel. Tuned in 1-5-8, with zither pins and it sounds like you would expect from a coffee can. See pics. But there's more. I put a larger coffee can over it (like the resonator on a banjo) and it projects better (seems louder) and sounds fuller (better lower frequencies).  New pics to come.

Comment by Thomas on July 23, 2011 at 4:50pm

Hi to all.  Having a look around has reinspired me to find more broken junk and get busy.

 My builds to date are mostly recycled, with strings tuners and pots being the exception ( I am over using worn out esentials )

Comment by Wichita Sam on May 18, 2011 at 2:03pm

Rick,

 

Wow!!! that makes me want to run home, pull down the shades and never, ever come out again.

 

Do you think playing checkers have any "potentially fatal hazards"?

 

the best,

 

Wichita (tongue in cheek) Sam

Comment by Rick Hayes on May 18, 2011 at 11:02am

I just saw something about wiring piezos that made me think. From past research on wiring mainstream electric guitars, I found info on shock hazards from using a grounded bridge as a way to quiet the instrument. I don't want to disrespect anyone here, I have learned alot but this info could be important to gigging musicians who might end up in a place wired by an unqualified person. Two reversed wires somewhere and the juice goes thru your bridge into your strings and hands, and grounds on the next metal thing you touch. Check this out if it is a concern. Shock Hazards

Comment by Rick Hayes on May 17, 2011 at 10:26pm

Don't know if this belongs here or on a lap steel site. Maybe I should be too embarrassed to say but I just a Simpson DOH moment. I have been using and liking a lap dawg slide, but recently found I was catching it on the strings if I played single strings. I don't want to commit 20 bucks to a bullet bar and find out I don't like it-then I realized-here comes the DOH!- I have been playing and loving a cut off Tabasco sauce bottle for a lap steel bar. I have been holding the bottom away from me- the rounded cut off neck end in my palm- HEY- turn it around and I have a curved end that won't catch the strings. Can't use the tip but it does a good job. I have seen others, since, using this bottle and I recommend it for lap playing if you like the sound of a glass slide.

Comment by Matte Resist on March 8, 2011 at 2:14am

Speaking of which... here's my recycled lap steel.  2x6 scrap I pulled from a dumpster, zither pin tuners (new), angle iron nut (from dumpstered bed frame), carpet tack fret markers (from dollar/bag sale at an estate sale), candy tin (gift at work I think... ate the candy.)  The bridge screw, piezos, wire, jack and hinge were all new.

 

Comment by Matte Resist on March 8, 2011 at 2:10am

Looks good Rick.  I thought about using one of those shelf brackets (mine actually came from an old umbrella still clothesline someone threw away) but I went with a piece of a bed frame instead.

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