Making a LapSteel Guitar 

That was amazing to watch!

Beautiful guitar and sounds wonderful great build can see the hard work that you put into making it and it certainly was worth it.

Awesome brother 😃

that looks so badass

1. You got more ways a making sawdust in your basement than nearly anybody else I know. 2. You sure do build a pretty Lap Steel!!!!!!!!!!

Aloha Tom! I am on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Awesome build, woodworking skills and choice of the type of instrument you’ve made. I play guitar, ukulele, trumpet,etc. and dabble with piano and other instruments. I play by ear and self taught on most instruments. Steel/Slide Steel is my latest passion. Country music steel/ slide category is alive and well but the origin of slide steel here in Hawaii (argued by some that it was born on mainland USA)is dying out slowly. I don’t have physical working skills with woodworking but I have the knowledge from books, acquaintances and social media such as yourself on RU-vid. I am a tinkerer and have always had a mechanical aptitude….been that way since a very young age. That is what led me to join the Air Force to be an aircraft mechanic and technician. I know how to use tools correctly and have used many tools associated with woodworking as well as a good knowledge base of tools and equipment of those that I have not yet physically worked with. I not only want to be proficient at slide steel guitar but I want to make guitars….electrics, acoustics, ukuleles and slide steel, mainly for myself. I not only want to help preserve the cultural roots of the Hawaiian steel guitar but I want to do it with an instrument that I made myself. You have been a very strong source of inspiration on me since watching this video. Mahalo nui loa for sharing your time with me and the world. Aloha Braddah and God’s Blessings to You and Yours!

I watched because I'm thinking about making a lap steel too. I love the belt sander jig! I'm gonna make something like it!

Beautiful instrument and shop!

Looks great sounds great

Fascinating to watch!!

Heck of a build. That looks like a massive jointer you have! Someday I'm gonna by a jointer. Someday... haha

Dude.... you nailed it

This is great! Thanks for the inspiration

love it... shes a beauty and sounds fantastic

Nice build, and nice playing at the end

Super🎉🎉🎉🎉Master!!!!!

I was taken as well by your tools. (never should have sold my shop). I haven't seen anyone use a folding rule or a coping saw in 40-50 years! Then you have a belt sander mounted on side instead of a horizontal belt? Must have spent too much on your Festools? Just teasing. Beautiful workmanship, I was more caught up in the process than what you were making. Nice to see people still carrying on good skills. Oh, and I liked the guitar.

This looks absolutely fantastic! Would you ever take a commission to build one?

I love to hear a steel guitar, but the only thing I don't like about steel guitars, or slide guitars in general, is that I have perfect pitch. If a player isn't exactly on pitch, i hear it. For example, the slide guitar playing "Honktonk Women" had a string out and it was driving me nuts. Your playing at the end of the video, however, was spot-on.

Beautiful guitar. Too bad your cable wasn't plugged in at the end of the video so I could know it was what I heard.

This steel lap Guitar looks great and sound really nice as well. I was wondering where you got the nut and what are the pickups you used?

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Nice shop ! The only thing I don't like , in fact makes me crindge , is when you pass your hands over the cutting head of the jointer . First time was the 8/4 stuff , I wasn't too uncomfortable , but when you ran that squirley 4/4 spalted stuff , I prayed for you . Still gots all mine . Great video , might be anew project for me .

That is truly beautiful! Congratulations! I especially like the coloring. Were you using wipe-on poly as a clear coat and then a spray poly to finish? And which dyes did you use? I am currently building one myself and your video is a great inspiration. Keep it up!

Proper piece of woodwork that but you do have all the gear to make a good job of it but well done looks amazing where do get the fret board from????.

I am curious about you Tele pickups, and have a couple questions. Hows does it sound using just the neck pickup? Do you get much use out of it? Ditto for the two pickups combined? Do you get that Tele chine or twang out of the bridge p/u? Can you get a "Hawaiian tone" out of it? Have you considered palm benders? What an amazing build.

Wow! I really want to make one. I need some hardware for it (tuners, bridge...) and need to figure out how to mark the frets so i can play it. Anywhere i could find fret marker templates?

Beautiful! If I may ask, where did you get your fretboard?

très belle réalisation mais c'est une histoire sans parole et sans dimensions pour essayer de fabriquer un lapsteel

Just the finish, the pickups' wooden mounts... what a pity

Could you tell me where you got the fretboard?

This is a nice build, Tom. What is the scale length? Is the Certano roller nut pretty sturdy? Take care!

Do you share your pattern dimensions and thicknesses?

Do you sell these?

Sorry I don't like the video. There's no information on the type of wood. Or dimensions he uses.