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Yeah , shoot me if ya want , but , I took a late 50’s / early 60’s vintage Rickenbacker lap steel and morphed it into this .
It was just the wood husk when I got it ,,. So it was not worth restoring to original ..
It would have cost 10 times more to restore than buying one mint and original .

Anyway .. it has a car light bulb encased in an antique telephone handset bar .This is to apply light so you can’t blame bad lighting on bad playing … but,… it is not hooked up and has no wires , and is fake , and does nothing but fool people into thinking you are not worried about blamining bad playing on bad lighting ;-)
The switches complement the light that does not do a dam thing , and are fine tuned to do the same .
The water knob acts as a diversion from the parts that don’t do a dam thing .. which probably won’t matter or have that effect ,, but at least it will detract from the fact that the knob don’t do a dam thing either . ;-)
The slide holder is functional and holds a slide that was cut from a Harley handle bar .

There rest is a basic cool FULLY WORKING LAP STEEL .
ive got it set up as a 3 string and one bass .

with a mini humbucker wired straight to jack .
And it’s cool enough to forgive me for trashing a classic ;-)
Leather , carpet tacs , cupboard Handel , embossed tin , slide holder and mojo ;-)

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Comment by Downtown Vinnie on March 3, 2015 at 2:44pm: Bet iffen I played the Mofo ,brofo ,it might do somethin for ya....

lol

Comment by the anonymous pick on March 3, 2015 at 11:08am: lol ;-)

Comment by OBSIDIAN on March 3, 2015 at 10:42am: This doesn't do a dam thing for me. lol.

Comment by the anonymous pick on September 5, 2013 at 1:56am: thanx kmac

Comment by K.MaC on September 5, 2013 at 1:03am: SUper Kool !!!!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on August 9, 2013 at 12:22pm: yoiu need crazy neighbors vin ;-)

but then its no fun pissin them off . lol

Comment by Clock The Wolf on August 9, 2013 at 12:00pm: (°_-)

Comment by Downtown Vinnie on August 9, 2013 at 11:57am: Can't wait to annoy the neighbors ................Looping issssssss sooooooo gonna be crazyyyyyyyyyyy.Love playing bass too,actually my first instrument.......wooo wooo

Comment by the anonymous pick on August 7, 2013 at 8:09am: thanx bluesheart ;-)

Comment by Bluesheart on August 7, 2013 at 7:11am: That is a great look and has much more character than a resto!

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