It S Easy To Build Your Own Lap Steel Guitar

Ours is made from english oak with a sycamore fretboard and ebony black plastic inlay.

It s easy to build your own lap steel guitar.

For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel. It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels. Because building a lap steel is relatively easy it provides an excellent introduction into the art of guitarbuilding. Champ style kits price is 349 95 string master kits price is 319 95 a hard case kit for champ or string master style is 90 00 all prices are plus shipping.

The whole thing feels great on your lap and looks absurdly cool. As you can tell i m still learning how to play this properly. With 225 photos and 40 line drawings martin koch shows how to make two different lap steel guitars in simple easy to follow steps. However that doesn t mean that the instrument lacks anything a lap steel guitar needs and it can be played just as well as any other lap steel instrument.

Power tools and sharp cutting tools will be used and i take no responsibility for people who use these things carelessly read and. All you need is a little patience some supplies and a desire to craft your own instrument. Scale length is 22 5 as per the original and the pickup is by entwistle p90 type. Building a basic lap steel guitar.

Oct 14 2019 explore pat mitchell s board lap steel plans on pinterest. Excerpt from the book it s easy to build your own lap steel guitar. In this my first instructable i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar. Classic art deco style instrument and a very unusual lap steel.

Gibson century lapsteel plan project is another easy to build instrument. The simple one shown on the left and a more conventional lap steel guitar. See more ideas about lap steel lap lap steel guitar. He even explains how to make your own guitar pickup using the world s simplest pickup winder.

Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached. Anybody can build this lap steel guitar. Building a lap steel guitar. Here s a quick video below.

32 800mm scale length 22 5 571 5mm 19 16 40mm 4 100mm. The lap steel plays great too. I have a champ style kit in right handed or left handed and a string master style single neck only kit.