I can't believe I know you. So talented. Not just the making of the guitar which is impressive enough, but teaching yourself to play it, creating a step by step instructional video and oh ya shooting and editing the video. You are such a multi talented human being. Great job Sean!!!
Please check how to use Jawari Guitar Tone bar to produce Jawari sound similar to Sitar in ordinary Hawaiian lapstyle guitar ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UxzXm-sbkOw.htmlsi=_UGbLs3uf7fWaT0S
Great performance!!! Please check below link to know how to generate 3 D Guitar Tone using Jawari Guitar Tone Bar from acoustic Hawaiian Lapsteel Slide Guitar ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_-vRwOmFe9A.htmlsi=TCu1wIIYarMLrvkR
I have no ambition to ever build my own lap steel guitar, but your video is so entertaining to watch - start to finish! I'm also a big fan of the lap steel guitar AND woodworking videos! You do great work. A real craftsman! That's a beautiful guitar. The woodburned design under the clear fretboard is the nicest touch. It's what caught my eye to select this video in the first place.
I was right! You caught "the bug"! I built a lap steel after building my first cigar box guitar too! I've built a license plate guitar, done 2 kit guitars...a Strat and a Tele, found a new ukulele kit at a yard sale and assembled and stained that. I'm now gathering and ordering materials for a semi hollow Strat/ Tele hybrid that I'm building the body from scratch. Kind of inspired by Eric Johnson's signature Strat. I bought a Tele neck...I love the Tele necks the most! Eventually, I hope to get enough courage to build my own regular guitar neck with a truss rod. I've done 2 fretted cigar box necks so far. I knew being a musician and a woodworker, that once you built one, you couldn't stop! That's great! Looks like you did a great job on this one too! 👍😎🎸🎶
Hey dart-man, Dont know if you have built your own neck yet, but I got me some purple heart boards and a few maple boards and I am going to make my neck from them. The Purple Heart is as strong as steel and the maple is quite strong as well. , I believe that you don’t even need a truss rod with it. I have them glued together, but still oversized- I’ll let you know when I get it more to instrument size.
@@themongoloid8944 cool. Ya, the purple heart is some tough wood. I actually did build my first neck with maple. It turned out pretty good. I just set up an Instagram account at 74dartman, that has some pictures of my builds. I'm new at the social media stuff, so it's not that great yet. I want to put better pics up eventually. Good luck with your build!👍😎🎸🎶
Good luck if you do. Lap steels are easier than fretted instruments because the action doesn't matter. I haven't worked up the courage to build a regular guitar yet :)
I hope you do. This was my first one. I had some discouraging set backs but I persisted. Please let me know how yours is shaping up and feel free to ask any questions. I'll do my best to help.
Wonderful news. RU-vid is what got me starting making stuff. I always watch many videos and try and take what I like most from them and use it to my advantage. So glad when I hear others get some inspiration from one of my videos. Makes the effort worth while. Please do share with me when you build it. You can message me at sean hale woodcrafts on facebook.
Lovely instrument you made there. Outstanding craftsmanship, a credit to you. Thank you for sharing your great idea and skills. Much appreciated and will be very useful to me.
@@SeanHaleWoodcraftsandMusic Yes , it will be my next project I am hoping but will be a couple of months yet before I will be able to start it. Your video inspired me and I also wanted to do something a little different to what I have been doing over the last 15 years. My hobby is model engineering and mainly like making stationary steam engines of which I have completed over 30 different Elmer's engines plus a few of my own ideas. I play a Tyros keyboard but haven't a clue about playing a lap steel guitar but like the idea of learning it. Thanks again for the inspiration. Nodrog, actually Gordon spelt backwards.
3 года назад
Uohhhhhh very good wood job man, It was very good to see that
Damn, you're incredibly talented, man! Let's see: the woodworking, the teaching of the entire woodworking process, the music for the video, the playing of the lap for the finale of the video, the filming and editing of the video itself! Super cool, and very inspiring. Well done. EDIT: forgot the Adobe illustrator design, too.
Thanks so much man. A lot of that stuff such as building the lap steel and playing the lap steel and even editing video were firsts for me. There was lots of trial and error... and still I would do it differently if I do it again. I guess when I did this, I was very inspired by watching others peoples videos and decided to dive head first into my own project.
Your shop looks so comfy, I would constantly be in trouble for not coming in the house. Lol - Great job buddy, on all aspects of this project from the video skills to the task at hand and making it easy to learn from. You rock Sean!!!
Thanks so much Dawn. I have to admit that trying to film while you work, adds another level of complexity, but it makes me feel good that some people enjoy watching.
Thank you so much. I really enjoyed watching your video. I really like the steel guitar and watching you make one from scratch just added to it. It sounds great. Awesome job.
Thanks so much. Thumbs down don't really bother me. I know the effort I put into making this musical instrument for the first time in my life and making like my second RU-vid video ever. I believe in constructive criticism genuinely aimed toward helping people. All the rest are just haters:)
Just winging it Funny Farm. I had no experience or practice with this kind of router work prior to this project. I just routed in scrap wood till I liked my template and then did it on the real piece.
All my single coil builds I copper line around the pickups and control cavity. Great build. I put the body in my router jig to cut the head stock down. The lap steel I'm building now I'm using an old Fender tray routed in the top. I like how calm you are. It's a bit more crazy in my shop. I enjoyed the video.
Thanks so much for your input. Clearly you have taken things to the next level. This is still my first and only Lap Steel build. My workshop is also my garage, laundry room and storage room. So I am limited a bit. Next place I live, I want to be sure and have a dedicated workshop to give me more options in ways to approach a project.
Refreshing that you took the time to build an instrument you could be proud of.I’ve been toying with the same idea and I love the Art Deco shape you used. I hope you’re flattered and you don’t mind if I use the same body design.
@@scramblesthedeathdealer Hey good luck with your project man. You know lap steel guitars can be as simple as a board and some hand tools. There are no frets to worry about, making it an excellent build to get started.
Bonjour à tous, je suis fier de vous, oui c'est très fort ce que vous faites, très minutieux avec beaucoup d' attention cela a l'air facile, mais....j'aimerais vous contractez. Je ne parle pas l' anglais. Amitiés
Thanks. It took some trial and error and some wasted lumber to get it right, but I am happy with it. Now if I could just take the time to learn it better.
Just a gorgeous looking instrument and sounds beautiful I wish I had your patience not only wood working but learning to play that beauty. My guess is you already play guitar . Hey do you think you could build us a grand piano next and maybe learn Beethoven's 5th next to show how it plays. You could do that quicker than I could build the lapsteel. aaaaaahhhh great video and thanks for sharing
Thanks so much... and yes I am a long time guitar player, but I must say the lap steel was a real challenge with the different tuning and the slide. I had been watching lap steel instructional videos in the months prior to building this so at least I had an idea in my head of what was involved. Oh yes and Beethoven! Coming right up :)
Very nice build. You are a great presenter. I would get a router bit with the ball bearing on the other side so you don`t have to route from the template on the 2nd side but just roll on the 1st routed surface and clean it up.
Actually that's a great idea. I had a lot of trouble with the routing part and actually ruined a previous workpiece by trying to get away with using a cheap bit that was long enough to do the whole piece at once. I was trying do to this on a budget, but I actually would have saved time and money had I just bought a quality bit in the first place. Or in this case two router bits.
It's beautiful! And sounds great too! I'll have to get a pack of those strings next time I make an order and try the C6 tuning. I built mine and never played it much. Been so busy building other stuff!👍😎🎸🎶
Yea the C6 tuning is great and new to me. I also need to play my lap steel more. There are some great RU-vid videos that teach C6 tuning on the lap steel
Hi Sean, I really like everything about your style of building and presenting this project. I am about to embark on my first lap steel guitar build with a friend who is actually a musician (I'm the woodworker in the mix). Is there any way you can give me a rough dimension on your lap steel project...it looks great.
I have a slab of locust tree which includes the heartwood, that I’ve been dreaming/scheming on using to build a lap steel guitar with. (And another chunk for a Tele style body..) great video, beautiful handwork and craftsmanship. Was your pickup a standard width? I have an EMG 81 left over from modding yet another guitar, that I would love to make use of. My style and tone genre would be best expressed by David Gilmour on High Hopes. Thanks for doing such a great job on this.
Wow this sounds like it will be awesome! Your pickup will probably be hotter than mine and you will be using a different tuning I imagine, but I would say do it. I found that by purchasing the pre-made fret board, it made the project that much easier. I just had to measure from the nut to the saddle 23 inches which was the scale length of the fretboard I purchased. www.cbgitty.com/made-in-the-usa/clear-acrylic-fretboard-for-2x4-lap-steels/
@@SeanHaleWoodcraftsandMusic I like the premade fretboard idea, nice to take advantage of what’s available. I know the emg is supposed to be hotter, but I didn’t find that that was it’s main characteristic. I’m thinking placing it closer to the fretboard, sorta like a neck pickup on an electric guitar, will mellow what I didn’t like about it, and emphasize its precision and clarity. I looked at Dusenberg Lap steels, and thought, “hmm, maybe a bridge and neck pickup, pickup selector, and separate volume controls, and I can blend tones to get whatever sounds best for whatever song I’m working on..” See what you’ve created with your video? I’m due to “retire” in the coming year, and projects like this will be among my “Happy Places”. Tunings: Open G, and G6. Whole new world for me.
@@dangipson4066 I'd love to see it when your done you can always message me and send pics though my Woodcrafts page on Facebook. 2020 has been a bad year for projects for me. I am wrapping up a video about wood burning onto an acoustic guitar. But I can't wait till I can find more free time for bigger projects like this. Here is the Facebook page: facebook.com/SeanHaleWoodcrafts
@@SeanHaleWoodcraftsandMusic I’d be happy to send you a photo when I’m done. Likely can’t even start until next winter. I hope you find a little time for a project that feeds your soul. You do an excellent job with your videos, I will do a little browsing when I’m on my breaks at work. Still working full time driving a bus/coach from Portsmouth NH to Boston. Videos like yours keep me alive and dreaming.
Really nice build Sean! Any chance of posting your template please? I'd really like to build this gorgeous instrument! Thanks and best regards from Marty (UK).
Sorry for the late reply. If you haven't already, message me on my facebook page in the links below and I can sent you a PDF you can use for the body shape.
Nice build. My only problem is the fretboard color. As a long time player of lap and pedal steel guitar the fretboard has to be very visible. My concern is the light color under the fret position markers. Normally the board is dark with lighter colored markers or vice versa. Otherwise it's a beautiful build.
Yes I did buy a light and a new camera for future videos. I got sidetracked with a career change, but hope to make new videos with the new equipment in the future. Covid really shook up my life
Bravo cher ami si je peux me permettre, je vous ai suivi jusqu'au bout de votre œuvre,c'est formidable, une question combien coûte la même, s'il vous plaît. Amitiés
Je vous remercie. J'ai utilisé Google Translate pour comprendre votre commentaire. Je ne les vends pas si telle est votre question. Je ne l'ai fait que pour un projet de maison amusant.
Hi, it's actually a Gretsch Lap Steel Pickup. You can just search the web for it. Here is a link to one being sold on Ebay. www.ebay.com/p/Gretsch-Electromatic-Lap-Steel-Guitar-Pickup-Chrome-0069709000/2254441574?iid=332664467817&chn=ps
Great Job Sean, I about to embark on a similar journey. I love the shape, details and finish you achieved. Are you still providing copies of the temperate through Facebook?
