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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 the anonymous pick on August 5, 2013 at 12:24pm: me too ;-)

Comment by Downtown Vinnie on August 5, 2013 at 12:21pm: I 'm just glad you still have fans

Comment by the anonymous pick on August 5, 2013 at 12:04pm: i have a real one on my mirror .. i use it as a fan ;-)

Comment by Downtown Vinnie on August 5, 2013 at 11:57am: Well ,if ya put like that ,then,I guess that does clarify a little better.I bet you have this on your mirror at home too, huh

Comment by the anonymous pick on August 5, 2013 at 11:51am

Comment by Downtown Vinnie on August 5, 2013 at 11:17am: Soooooooo,exactly how much mojo does that come with?Imean , how to you measure that stuff,MPM ?,jus curious,If I could get a number ,it might help me in considering it...lol