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Topic: Lap Steel that looks like Fender Tele |
Ron Funk
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Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 14 Dec 2013 4:02 pm |
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On another post in this section, there's a photo of a Lap Steel that looks like a Fender Tele (with a square neck).
Are such lapsteels commercially available?
Or, perhaps better, what are good sources for components should I want a Winter Woodshed project?
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2013 2:28 pm
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Here's my Tele with a Lapdancer neck. Tons o' fun!
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Ralph Czitrom
From:
Ringwood, New Jersey
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Posted 15 Dec 2013 4:52 pm
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Ron - Joel Eckhaus is a luthier located in Maine (http://www.earnestinstruments.com), and he has a lap steel he calls the Eckenbacher, which "combines some of the best features of both Fender and Rickenbacher steel guitars into one beautiful instrument", according to his website. It has a great look, though I've never played or heard one.
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Ron Funk
From:
Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 1 Jan 2014 4:42 pm
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What is good source for obtaining Tele-style body to combine with Lapdancer neck?
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Jeff Bibb
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2014 6:11 pm Tele body for a steel
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I would try Warmoth Guitars. They make really high quality bodies. I have built several guitars with their bodies and necks with excellent results.
http://www.warmoth.com
Jeff
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2014 8:11 pm
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| I agree with Jeff. Warmoth bodies are great. I have three Warmoth guitars, and they're as good as they get. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2014 8:13 am
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Lapdancer rednecks also work with Strats.
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Steve Branscom
From:
Pacific NW
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Posted 2 Jan 2014 9:02 am
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You can always just go to Craigslist and buy a made in Mexico Tele or Strat for about $300, swap necks and tuners and you're done. That's what I did. Worked great.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 2 Jan 2014 10:41 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
| Lapdancer rednecks also work with Strats... |
They probably work with a number of other guitars, too. I imagine you could bolt one onto an acousitc guitar which had a bolt-on neck.
My question is why one would want to go to such an expense when you can turn any solid-electric into a lap steel by just slipping in a nut riser, for about $4? The string separation might end up very slightly wider than the neck at the nut end, but so what? In fact, you don't even need a nut riser. Just cut a short length of threaded rod and slip it under the strings. Not only will the threads allow you to use whatever string separation you want, but you automatically have a movable nut with which you can shorten the scale length if you want to. |
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