Lapsteel!!

[noodleplugerine]

you build a pedal steel :P

Touché! :D

[WezV]

i have considered it, and its definately possible but metal work really isnt my thing.

i was wondering about doing a console/table steel.  Thats basically a lap steel with screw in legs and usually more than one neck... so a pedal steel without the pedals

[headtheball]

The Lap Steel is well due a comeback, I reckon. Saw Troy Van Leuwen absolutely rip on one at a Mark Lanegan gig ages ago, and it sounded class. 

[TheDev01dOne]

I've noticed a fair few blues guys are playing more lap steel but usually on acoustic lap steels with hollow necks. Seems confusing to me.

Nice looking lap steel you built anyway. It's red so it goes faster.

[Jonny]

That's the first lapsteel I've seen in fire engine red. Or any colour as a matter of fact.

[WezV]

I've noticed a fair few blues guys are playing more lap steel but usually on acoustic lap steels with hollow necks. Seems confusing to me.

possibly weissenborn style guitars by the sounds of it


Its not confusing to play at all really, you put it in an open tuning (say open D or G) then strum and slide away.   Obviously it take longer to get really good at it but anyone can have a bit of fun, no chords to learn!!

[TheDev01dOne]

It's the thoughts of fingerpicking and muting unused strings that scare me as I can't do either well.

I'm sure someone I know would own a lapsteel somewhere, I might ask around and try get my hands on one for a bit, see if its as hard as I imagine.