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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 August 4, 2013 at 6:46am
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My Fingers are even drooling...how does that happen? Love it ,it needs me..haha
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Comment by the anonymous pick on August 4, 2013 at 6:03am
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thanxx , i think ;-)
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Comment by Low Budget Luthier on August 4, 2013 at 6:00am
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dare i say, whimsical?. i like it. i think.
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thanx man .. i think im lookin for trades or offers on this one ;-)
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Comment by Keith Rearick on August 4, 2013 at 5:49am
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That looks really cool
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