All Things Lap Steel!

[MEC]

Get all your questions answered and all your answers questioned!

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[MEC]

Here's something to get the juices flowing:

[devnulljp]

I haz this nice old Harmony Roy Smeck...

[D.o.S.]

Lapsteels, like slide guitar, always seem to sound amazing.

Mostly, I figure, because they're impossible to play... so if you're laying down a lapsteel part, you'd better have your shit together.

[Mudfuzz]

I made me own..
maple "neck" pine "body" ash front and back, koa board, godin pickup.
it sounds like.. this..

[DallasLemonade]

I made me own..
maple "neck" pine "body" ash front and back, koa board, godin pickup.
it sounds like.. this..

i like it!
the drums remind me of Dog Door by Tom Waits

[kosta]

That shit is sweet Muddy! Great stuff.

No ILF lapsteel discussion would be complete without these jams from our own Blooghost:




And then there's this amazing Pete Drake pedal steel talkbox clip. Shit blows my mind...

[Mudfuzz]

Thanks guys! Yeah Bloo, fuck yeah!

Oh and...
Tunings: open E and D and CFCGCC and CFCGCF
I use a Ernie Ball round tonebar and a Dunlop Ergo tone bar
Strings.. I like flats on the thing best.
Picks&things: anynormalguitarpick... coins, a brass pick I made and a ebow.

[Ryan]

I really love the sound of lapsteel, geeez it's haunting! It really helped me get into lots of the country music that Tanya loves but I didn't... I hear some lapsteel and it brings me around bigtime.

Here's some nice lapsteel from TPB:


Muddy, yours is totally awesome.. what a project!

I don't think I'm in the league of players that can play lapsteel, seems really tough to me.

[Moustache_Bash]

And then there's this amazing Pete Drake pedal steel talkbox clip. Shit blows my mind...

That's awesome. I'd love to learn pedal steel, but I'm left handed. Maybe if I ever learn more theory, I can pick up lap steel.

An obvious hit:

[Mudfuzz]

BASSSTEEL! I WANT!

[bigchiefbc]

Red Sparowes rocks that shit pretty hard:

[Zounds Perspex]

lap steel is cool and fun. pedal steel is fucking IMPOSSIBLE.

[lapsteel]

Ahhh!

Steel revolution!

Any one out there gots a Moog lapsteel? I guess it is the same as playing with an ebow, but you can hit slants cause it works on all strings.

Mudfuzz nice clip....care to share some homemade ebow tips?

[Mudfuzz]

Ahhh!

Steel revolution!

Any one out there gots a Moog lapsteel? I guess it is the same as playing with an ebow, but you can hit slants cause it works on all strings.

Mudfuzz nice clip....care to share some homemade ebow tips?

I made a brass pick not a ebow... I just have one NOW if any of you attempt on ebow making let me know because I have a few ideas in what I would like as a custom one