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Permalink Reply by Charlotte Henry on January 4, 2012 at 5:47pm

I'm interested in how your lap steel turned out.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on January 5, 2012 at 1:49am

Thought I had posted the pics... Here's the link:

 

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/lap-steel-11?context=user

 

Pretty wel, actually.  I'm finding the thing a little harder to play than I thought it would be, as everything with the left hand is "backwards"... Damping with the little finger and holding the slide with thumb and forefinger.

Also, there's a bewildering variety of tunings available.  I was just playing with one of the (Many...) C6 tunings last night... sounds very "Hawaiian".

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Permalink Reply by Lonman on January 5, 2012 at 12:39pm

Very cool. I like it.

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Permalink Reply by Wade on January 5, 2012 at 3:23pm

I have a "lapsteel" hidden in a piece of old, large stair tread I reclaimed from someones curb. All I have to do is cut away what is not a lap steel and I'm set! Can't wait to see what your up to...

Wade

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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on January 6, 2012 at 2:56pm

How do you come up with scale/fret length? Fret's I suck at and fret scales are even worse...Lap steel is my next one...

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Permalink Reply by Wade on January 6, 2012 at 5:34pm

I've got scales from several sources:

Printable online

pencil rubbings off my favorite guitars

blemished precut fingerboards(cheap on ebay)

hope this helps

Wade

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on January 7, 2012 at 3:33am

I took all my measurements and much of the design from this nice site:

http://www.bluestemstrings.com/page5.html

Remember, with a lap steel frets can be pretty sloppy or even eliminated....they just function as markers.

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