Home-Built Lapsteel
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- This is my first guitar design and build and I wanted to start with something simple. I used normal woodworking tools and did most of it on a Workmate outside. It isn't very complicated, and to be honest I'm not a skilled woodworker (I design trains, buildings and structural stuff for a living). We are pretty pleased with it and actually has more sustain than Xavier's Ovation. We hope it inspires others to have a go.
Very nice! Hopefully you've yourself learned this by now, but for any lap steel newbies watching, you'll get a much cleaner tone and sound if you keep your pinky and ring fingers down on the strings behind the tonebar to mute string noise. Or at least one finger. Now, if you can mute behind the bar and execute a behind the bar bend simultaneously, then you're really getting somewhere!
Don’t know what video you where watching but he had his finger behind the tone bar all of the time 🤓
@@savedaz It doesn't look like that finger is touching the strings to me, at least not all the time. That just looks like the finger he's using to hold the bar. Most lap steel players hold the bar using the thumb, index, and middle, but then mute behind the bar using either the ring finger or pinky finger.
You did a GREAT job (except for the music from hell) on making this awesome laptop. Gorgeous. Well done kind Sir.
Looks great. Well done You've inspired me. I am approaching a lap steel project too under similar conditions you faced. No shop. Design dictated by parts I already have in my collection(except for tuners). Mine will have a traditional 3 saddle Tele bridge with a lil 59 pickup with a coil tap. Thanks for sharing this!
Very well thought out and professionally built. I'm sure you are proud of it. Inspiring . Thanks very much.
Great job very sweet sounding 👍❤️🙏🏼
Very stylish!
this is really cool! thank you... i was trying to imagine a lapsteel playing over the funky background track... funktry western music
I hope you wore a dust mask while cutting or sanding the bone. Inhaling sanded or cut bone dust can be a health hazard. Also with bone, it can shrink over time. I hope when you worked it, it was stable. I am toying with the idea of making one, too. Yours came out awesome!! What CAD / CAM 3D program did you use? I might go for an 8 string, but the 6 might be better as a first try! How far above are the strings from the fretboard? Cool playing too! I am not a Luthier, but sort of like working with wood. 🤓
Hi there, yes to mask, shrinkage is minimised by first baking in an oven. Used autocad for drawings
The strings are 4-5mm above the fretboard
@@mjxguerra cool! Thank you 🤓
nice looking guitar .... sounds solid too ............. JRW
Very nice work.
Use thicker guage strings, your strings looked like they were sagging, so I think that puts them out of tune🤪☮
Hi Pedro. They are actually 13s tuned to open D, though with a short 24.75" scale. The tuning stability when the video was made 5yrs ago was to do with breaking in the strings and Xavier not used to tuning it. Thanks for commenting.
@@mjxguerra Cool 😎 👌 👍
nice build, but the engineer in you may have kicked in a few times.
Dear Susan,
You are perfectly correct, as it is hard to change the habits of 30 years. I am not a musician, only a design engineer trying to persuade his eldest child to try playing lapsteel (which I love). Thanks for the comment. Mike
Dear Mike, Would you mind sharing your drawing?
Mvh
Rémi
Sure, let me have your email address and I'll send you the .dwg and a pdf
I have send a PM :)
me too, please? you know, even if i never did a build from it, it's a beautiful piece of art in itself!
Hi Mike..........just seen this and really want to make it. Could I be cheeky and ask if you’d led me have a copy of the drawings for it. Also I like the sounds you get out of that pick up with the 5 way switching. Where is the wiring diagram from ? Love the vid and have subscribed
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