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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 15 Feb 2018 3:14 pm |
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This is a lap steel I built a few years ago.
It currently belongs to Bill McCloskey.
Last edited by Alan Brookes on 18 Feb 2018 11:23 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 15 Feb 2018 3:32 pm
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I see ate photos, not for.
Tell us more about that guitar.
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Feb 2018 10:52 am Custom S12 Laptop
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It's a guitar that I built about ten years ago. I made it so that it could have its configuration easily changed. It can be played acoustically or electrically. The bridge has rollers on a threaded rod, and the nut is threaded rod. That way you can adjust the string spacing to your needs just be rolling the rollers along the thread and lifting the strings on the nut. Instead of a fingerboard, which the hands get in the way of anyway, I've fitted it with position markers, out of the way of the hands.
It has brass corner protectors, to avoid scuffing of the corners, and rubber feet underneath so that when you lay it on a table or a stand the back is not muffled. It also has an eyelet screwed between the top feet so that it can be hung on a wall.
The reason I posted it here, and I intended to delete the posting, is because I was sending details to the buyer, and the way the Forum software is set up you cannot attach photos to private messages unless you post the photos in another section and then copy the location. |
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 17 Feb 2018 4:07 am
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I like it!
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 17 Feb 2018 6:12 pm
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Joe Elk
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2018 8:37 am
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Always interested in other folks builds!
How is it tuned!
How does the roller at the bridge.
Joe Elk
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 18 Feb 2018 11:22 am
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It was designed to allow for experiments in tuning, etc. The bridge has rollers on threaded rod, and the nut is threaded rod. That allows you to change the spacing of the strings by rolling the bridge rollers into position, and just lifting the strings at the nut and repositioning them.
Instead of a fingerboard is has position markers, my thought being that your hands cover up the fingerboard on a normal lap steel.
It has little rubber feet on the underneath, so that, if you rest it on a table or keyboard stand, the back will be free to vibrate, which will enhance the sound.
You can tune it how you like. At the moment it's tuned A B C D E F G A B C D E. I was thinking of changing that so that there are two pairs of six, with the bottom six being an open E and the top six an open A, or, alternatively, the bottom six being an open G and the top six an open E min.
But it's up to Bill McCloskey now. It's his guitar. |
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Art Beard
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Posted 18 Feb 2018 2:25 pm Lap steels
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Alan, are you going to build any more like the one I miss in the Wedding sale??? YOUR FRIEND CAA
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 19 Feb 2018 10:47 am Re: Lap steels
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| Art Beard wrote: |
| Alan, are you going to build any more like the one I miss in the Wedding sale??? YOUR FRIEND CAA |
I wasn't planning on it. I never build the same instrument twice. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Posted 19 Feb 2018 11:27 am
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Looking forward to getting it Alan.
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Joe Elk
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2018 1:17 pm
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Alan: If you do decide to build one sort of like it Please keep the Forum up on the progress.
Joe Elk Central Ohio |
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