Home built lap steel guitar 

this has got to be the prettiest lap steel I have ever seen! alot of attention placed in every area of design. Contour of scratch plate follows neck line edge etc. etc. etc. A Very Fine piece of Craftmanship!!

Are you kidding me? This one looks better than all the stuff fender, gretsch and duesenberg makes!

Congratulations on producing a video without droning on about stuff for half the run time before we actually see some building. I'm planning a build and done of these are over an hour long and consist of some really long and boring speeches. Excellent job. I think my build will be based on this one.

Unfortunately not yet. I made it as a gift for a friend and gave it away before recording it. The single coil pickup and passive circuitry were what I had left over from another project and worked fine but humbuckers seem to be a more common choice. The Mahogany body gave plenty of sustain. I did try it out through an amp and even without effects it sounded pretty good.

wow . great.i am just starting to build one.i was browsing the net and found you.thanks. les

Well that came out looking just beautiful, brethren!!! Love all the wonderful woodgrain!

Amazing work. True piece of art you have created.

Thanks for commenting. I was pleased with the end result. As for warping; I don't know for sure as I built it as a gift and gave it away pretty much as soon as it was dry! I doubt it would warp though. The wood was nicely seasoned and because you don't need to get your fingers around the neck it can be made much thicker than on a normal guitar.

Great job!

Great, thanks for your help! I'll probably go with single coil I think, but it's surely not too hard to fit humbuckers with a little alteration.

Thanks for the kind comments. I'm hoping to find time to put up a video of my homemade Banjulele soon.

Nicely done, would really like to hear it in action.

Stunningly beautiful.

You're right, It is strung with a standard set of electric guitar strings (.10s I think) As with nearly all the components used, the strings were what I had available at the time. I tuned the guitar to the nearest open tuning (E,B,E,G#,B,E. I think) which sounded good to me but I'm no expert. There's a website called buildyourguitar which has some useful tips. Good luck with your build.

Beautiful styling

Very beautiful...... excellent.

Beautiful, two thumbs up

For what it's worth; there is no need to use an adjustable "intonation" bridge on a steel guitar. Here is why: On standard guitars, intonation is a problem; and the more sensitive the "ear" is, the more it can drive a musician crazy. IE: when the strings are pressed down on the frets, it changes (stretches) the tuning. Worse: the poor intonation is NOT the same on every string. Thus you must adjust each string in perfect intonation, individually to stop this malady. NONE of this is needed on a steel guitar; because the straight bar does not push down; but... even if there is a tiny bit; simply use the bar to correct the infinitesimal intonation. In most cases, it is so small that most players do not hear it. Again, what it's worth. Also, no disrespect meant atoll.

Nice work Men

Thanks

Nice Job

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nice job

Explendida!

Sweetness

First class job, except the pickup is too far from the bridge..Check out Fender Stringmasters, Gibson and Rickenbacher steels and the like, they ALL have the pickup as near the bridge as possible to minimise the difference betwixt the transient and the sustained signal. Counts for a lot in the mix.. The perceived volume of the transient determines the overall placement within the soundfield of the mix, and obviously a higher ratio will make the steel to APPEAR to have less sustain.

Good eye my Man ............. JRW .... How does that wooden nut sound? ............. JRW

Volume knob is a little too close to the bridge. The tuners could have been space a little more and angled inward to avoid the 3rd and 4th strings rubbing against the 2nd and 5th tuning pegs, but other than that it's a really nice build and good selection of wood. I'd give it a 6 out of ten.

Good work! She's beautiful. Does the neck warp without a truss rod?

Is there any dimensions anywhere.

Tenho muita vantade de aprender a tocar guitarra havaiana, comprei uma mais não sei nem afinar.

awesome what size board was that please

Any video of how it sounds?

im going to be building one of these, can someone please tell me how this is tuned, it looks like there normal gauge strings

The bolt hole is plugged. Lmao

What where the dimensions of the original block of wood?

Добрый вечер , мы с Украины!

Nice guitar, but worst compressed audio file i've ever heard

Headstock is a little too cut down. Strength...splitting. And that music...too bad the tape didn't totally get eaten before.