All Things Lap Steel!

[Zork]

Yay! Nice one, they just look so pretty!

I couldn't bring myself to sell the Silvertone. It's just so sweet. So I just went for it and drilled right in the top and installed the Certano benders:



Looks like it's a keeper. Also, I put on a set of the Duesenberg lap steel strings. They are absolutely perfect. Just the right amount of tension and a very great tone. And here's a group shot with some of its new friends:



Good times!

[coldbrightsunlight]

Looks awesome dude, glad you got it working and I think it's the right call haha. Looks like a keeper

[Chankgeez]

That is a nice lookin' steel.

[Blackened Soul]

badass!

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

I have no idea what I'm doing! But this thing is fun so far.

[Zork]

Hell yeah!

[Dandolin]

lap steel are fun
i've wanted one like that Silvertone for yoinks
[need to listen to your vidya HA predict i will like]

[coldbrightsunlight]

Cool video HA! I find lapsteel is really fun with crazy FX in a way that regular guitar isn't (for me).

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

In an effort to rein in the absurdity (or at least situate it in reality) I'm getting my first lap steel lesson on Thursday!

I haven't had any formal music instruction since abandoning piano lessons when I was ten.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh that's cool! I remain self taught and largely not good

[Blackened Soul]

If you are having intonation issues try playing with a tuner on... until you can hear when you are off.. might help..

[Fluxus]

I've been dabbling a bit with lap steel for a couple of years, using an old Gibson BR-9 and a Harmony Roy H7 Roy Smeck model (gold foil 'pup era). I'm trying to incorporate them into "pretty music" as well as weirdo noise, and it's a lot of fun learning how to use 'em!

I did an online double-lap set for Delaweird on Christmas evening that's mostly weirdo stuff (some microtonal manipulations and lots of pedals), interspersed with a couple of familiar christmas tunes since the live-Twitch show thing was on christmas day. You can check it out on the Delaweird Twitch archives here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/854284650 There are lots of killer experimental music sets to check out on that page, too...

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Starting to get a bit more deliberate about the combo and routing of pedals... hopefully on the path to unleashing the "shitty lanois" vibes.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Jus' gonna keep spamming this thread! I found some lap steel sounds that struck me as being the opposite of Western Swing music (hence the title) even if I accidentally occasionally run against some familiar melodic fragments.



Settled on a pedal layout, as expounded in the setup thread.

[qersty]

https://reverb.com/item/69422469-otwin-d8-1950-s?bk=

Pretty wild lookin double necker. Pretty intresting looking pickups. They are archtop pickups i think, from a quick googlin. Also possibly with a racist name!