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David,
I have been making a 6 string CBG out of Jarrah. It is extremely hard to work but it looks a million bucks when it is polished up and coated. I am making it out of a piece of 100x38mm cross section jarrah. Some photos of the project are on the Cigar box australia website on my page
http://cigarboxguitarsaustralia.ning.com/profile/LenDavidson
The build does have a cigar box to give it some degree of acoustic sound but I am going to amplify it. I am still not sure if I am going to use a coil pickup or a piezo transducer.
Len
Comment by c# merle on June 6, 2011 at 7:19am not familiar with australian eucalypts david, but just about any wood is suitable for a lap steel - even a big lump of pine.
this is how i put mine together 8 string lap steel blog
Comment by Alan Roberts on June 6, 2011 at 2:03am G'day, David.
You can make a lapsteel out of just about anything. Your traditional guitars are fussy, because of the thin neck. The lapsteel is such a massive chunk of lumber you could make it out of balsa (ok, maybe not balsa). I have no idea about the sustain you can get out of a gum tree. Keep us posted, eh? Just be sure that your wood is properly CURED.
Comment by David T on June 5, 2011 at 9:52pm Wow, the tone is so full...A magnetic pickup, I presume. What sort.
Also, could you make a a solid bodied lapsteel out of a hardwood. I don't suppose you would be familiar with Australian Eucalypts, but I have a lot of spotted-gun on a block of land down south and have wondered whether I could use it, or some of the other hardwoods, for a lapstyle guitar. The spotted gum is predominantly used for feature flooring timber with similar characteristics to hickory.
Comment by c# merle on June 3, 2011 at 8:48am welcome to the nation david. with my lap steel, i went for a solid body because of the extra sustain (plus i had the wood handy). obviously it has zero acoustic sound but with a hollow body - cigarbox etc - you could play without an amp.
this is the finished guitar http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/8-string-lap-steel
real fun to play, enjoy your building!
Comment by David T on June 2, 2011 at 12:22am Hi, I'm a new member from Oz. Just tryin to get a handle oncigar box lapstyle guitars.Notice some folks use solid bodies...and some build with cigar boxes...what's the difference. Why would you go one way versus the other?
cheers,
David T
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