Shane Speal had a great suggestion this week - build a guitar for Black Friday!  I was in the process of building a 2x4 lapsteel (based on the design Shane has shared here on Cigar Box Nation) so I made it my goal to finish up by today - Black Friday.

The design was very similar to the original Shane posted.  Nothing fancy, but they sound surprisingly good.  I've built two prior to this one.

I was initially going to use a Teisco Dey Rey surface mount pickup from C.B. Gitty, but…

I'm building a 2x4 lapsteel this week and I wanted to use a C.B. Gitty Teisco Del Rey pickup on it.

Shane Speal has given these pickups a good review and the way they are made gives a lot of different mounting possibilities with the "wings".

I…

On the latest build I completed, I needed a bridge that would give me two things; low action and a good place to get a ground for the strings because I had built this guitar with an internal P90 pickup.

Walking down the electrical aisle in my local big box store I spied these terminal lugs.  I turned them this way and that way and figured out a way I could fashion a bridge from them.…