Pickup for lap steel

[tomjackson]

I'm making a lap steel guitar and need an idea of what pickup might be best.  It will only have one pickup in the bridge position.  http://buildyourguitar.com/resources/lapsteel/ recommend a strat type bridge single coil but I think this might be too thin but I'm also thinking that a humbucker might lose some of the lap steel vibe.

What would you go for?

[FernandoDuarte]

A P90 or a Telecaster bridge is what I would try! But I know almost nothing about lapsteel...

[Ratrod]

A hot P90 or a Piledriver.

[Tellboy]

Piledriver !!!!!!!

The Piledriver is my take on the original Braodcaster...........these early pickups were essentially taken off lap steel guitars so were quite hot.Having said that they still have some twang in them, nothing like a lower output pickup but they've got some serious meat to them.Another option is The Boss which is solid and chunky but still has great bite too.

[PhilKing]

Hi, if you ask Tim he can wind a Lap Steel tele bridge.  He did that for me on one of the Lap steel's that Wez made for me.

[WezV]

yeah, it worked well i think - i prefer singles on lapsteels

it was about 10k so not as hot as a piledriver but quite similar tonally.   Remember you use massive strings on a lapsteel so get quite a bit more output from that

also, dont skimp on the steel.  it sounds so much better than playing lap style with a normal slide

i have one like this
http://www.guitarandampshop.co.uk/acatalog/Jim_Dunlop_JD925_5.35oz._Chromed_Brass_Tonebar.html