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Topic: Low cost and I do mean Low cost lap steel |
Gary Stevenson
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Northern New York,USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2007 3:43 pm |
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I could not believe this guy had the nerve to post this on Ebay . the item number is 220143176613 under lap steels. If I knew how to post links I would have.But tears running down my face from laughing would have prevented my posting anyway. 
Edited by Brad Bechtel to add a link to the auction on eBay. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2007 4:13 pm
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Hardly as funny as the cigar box tenor for only $950!
But, there is a nice Magnatone Lyric with no reserve and few bids. |
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Charley Wilder
From:
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2007 5:58 pm
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That's great! Just great!. I'll bet it works like gangbusters too. I knew a guy just like him once. He could have cobbed together a space shuttle out of junk parts. But whatever he made was solid and worked like crazy! Made my day! This is a great forum but there is no where near enough humor around here. We need more stuff like this. We're all much too serious here!  |
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Colin Alder
From:
Santa Cruz, California, USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2007 7:47 pm
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I'm gonna steal that pillow/backing idea  |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 25 Aug 2007 8:14 pm
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| I kinda suspect you folks don't appreciate fine workmanship when you see it ! |
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norm mcdaniel
From:
waco tx
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 5:14 am Low Cost Steel Guitar
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Well Guys Ive made some lap steels that I was ashamed of but that one takes the PRIZE. Im still trying but maybe Ill get one right soon
Keep smiling
Norm in Waco |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Jack Musgrave
From:
Springfield, Missouri, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 9:15 am
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| does it come with a hard shell case for that price |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 10:33 am
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| The current bid of .99 sounds about right! |
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Matthew Boris
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 11:21 am
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I dunno, $25.99 isn't bad considering that it'd cost you $6-10 bucks for tuners, another $5-10 for some scrap pickup components, $6 of strings, and a few hours of your time to replicate this yourself.
Still costs 1/3 of what a Galveston (shipped) would run.
Who knows, maybe some poor college kid will buy it, and turn out to be love it, and upgrade next year. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 12:53 pm
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Funny, I kind of like the way the guy's demo sounds. Song belongs on some kind of creepy soundtrack and that's not such a bad thing.
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 5:46 pm
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Yeah, that tune wasn't bad. But the best part of this auction is, there are actually 2 bids!
Fess up, whom on this forum is after this beauty? |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 8:12 pm why shouldn't the guy have the nerve to post it on eBay?
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| You guys talk like this steel was supposed to be something incredible. The guy's not claiming it to be a Stringmaster or anything. I think it could very well sound fantastic. |
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Chris Walke
From:
St Charles, IL
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 8:16 pm
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Nah, the best part of the auction is the $25 for shipping, handling, and INSURANCE!!
I can laugh at that all night, but then again, I haven't built anything better...or at all. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 9:04 pm
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| I think it could very well sound fantastic. |
Yes, it could sound fantastic. These string-through-body designs have excellent sustain. 
And the Cardboard pickup plate also improves the tone. It really stiffens it up.
The scotch tape firmly holds down the $2 flea market pickup. Bigsby tried that design in 1951 but rejected it after the tape kept coming loose on outdoor gigs.
The best feature is the Variable Scale Length. 23 3/8" on string 1, and 24 13/16" on string 6.
The slants are already built in. The player doesn't even have to slant the bar!
External ground wire provides visual proof that the guitar is grounded.
Unfortunately the 10 year old kid who built this left it out in the rain. It needs a fret job. Water paint tends to run in the rain.
Precision Machined Keyhead is firmly held in place by drywall screws.
New 'staggered tuners' design looks attractive, but the tuners don't actually turn because the buttons bump into each other.
Duct Tape String Mute device behind the nut pays homage to the old Fender String Mute. Junior has thought of everything!
This guitar is a "Signature Model" personally signed by Junior, as seen in the picture.
It's THE FOLK ART MODEL, or the F'ART MODEL for short.
INSURANCE!!??
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Denny Turner
From:
Oahu, Hawaii USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2007 11:55 pm
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I am really attracted to crudely made musical instruments. I think it would take a humanities institution many years of study to cover the huge abstract such instruments represent; Perplexing from mechanical perspectives, yet interesting if not inspiring from a perspective of humanities; ...And allot of fun observing each other toy with the abstract. 
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 27 Aug 2007 12:31 am a steel guitar high horse of a different color
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I'm wowed by the level of condescension directed at the builder of this admittedly crude, homebuilt instrument.
Nothing says that the scale length is irregular from string to string... except perhaps a viewer whose sense of proportion is easily confused by asymmetrical surroundings. |
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Denny Turner
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Oahu, Hawaii USA
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Denny Turner
From:
Oahu, Hawaii USA
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 27 Aug 2007 2:51 am
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| I'm reminded of a similar guitar built by luthier Danny Ferrington to test pickups. He built that guitar out of scrap wood laying around the shop in exactly one hour. Ry Cooder stopped by, borowed it and wouldn't give it back 'cause it sounded so good! The steel here may be extremely crude but it represents a yearning to play music that's kind of touching. |
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Paul Warnik
From:
Illinois,USA
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Posted 27 Aug 2007 3:03 am
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Doug B-You are a funny guy! But seriously in 1951 Bigsby was using a a type of tape similiar to Scotch but it was a translucent yellow in color- and it was not used to mount the pickup down but rather to be wrapped around the coil to cover the pickup wire  |
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Matt Johnson
From:
California, USA
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Posted 27 Aug 2007 6:29 am
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| I contacted the seller when the auction began, commenting on how the mp3 demo was pretty cool. He responded with many thanks and sent out a CD he made. IMHO, when someone takes the time to build, like he said, an admittedly crude instrument, I tend to think that the person wants to play ASAP and not get caught up in the craftsmanship part of it. The song is good, the "kid" is polite, and that makes the guitar cool to me. |
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Gary Stevenson
From:
Northern New York,USA
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Posted 27 Aug 2007 5:19 pm ears not sight!
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| Luckily we hear music with out ears and not our eyes. I did not laugh at the lap steels sound, I was just taken aback some by how basic and crude it was. I agree with the comment that some one may buy this on the cheap and discover the fun of steel playing.Maybe with some good tools, time and some good parts he could show up a lot of us.Anyway he had fun and it does make music.I will bet in the hands of Rick, Steiner, or any number of you quality players it would make fine music.So to quote "forest gump" thats all I have to say about that!!!!!!!!1 |
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