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Topic: check out this handmade lap!!!! |
Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Gary Stevenson
From:
Northern New York,USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2007 6:54 pm New lap steel |
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| What a gorgeous steel. That is one of the nicest ones I have seen.Sort of makes the ones I build look kind of sub-par.If I wasn't so nuts over the Lap King style, I would want one of these. |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 22 Jan 2007 7:57 pm
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DROOOOL.  |
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John Rosett
From:
Missoula, MT
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Posted 22 Jan 2007 8:20 pm
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| Where the heck was this guy when I lived in Missoula?!?! |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 22 Jan 2007 9:33 pm
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| Truly a work of art.....beautiful design and workmanship ! I'll bet it sounds as great as it looks. "Superb" is the only word I can use to describe this beauty. ! |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jan 2007 10:55 pm
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| What George said, truly an artistic masterpiece. |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 22 Jan 2007 11:21 pm
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Ditto what everyone is saying.
I would still like to hear what it sounds like.
I have a Koa wood steel build by Tom Reeder many years ago. It does have a nice tone. The old timers in the Hawaiian Steel Guitar clubs will know of Tom.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2007 4:07 am
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| it is well done and quite beautiful. I like the bridge and string thru design. |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 23 Jan 2007 5:49 pm
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| Aside from the finish on the wood, I think that thing looks awful! I'd be the last person to demand symmetry, but that instrument is just unsettling. And it's another new steel with the pickup mounted waaaay too far from the bridge. |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Jan 2007 5:57 pm
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I really like the looks of this, almost like something Dali could have designed. As for the pickup being too far from the bridge,- at first I thought so too, but then I checked with a photo of my last National Dynamic and it seems like it's about the same distance.
I would have missed a tone control though...
Steinar
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2007 6:13 pm
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| Although I can appreciate the workmanship that went into this guitar I tend to agree with Jeff. It just doesn't do that much for me, I'm more into the classic design of the lap steels from the past I guess. I'd sure like to hear what it sounds like though. |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2007 7:00 pm
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More than the odd shape or the missing tone control, I'd be concerned about the string spacing at the nut. By his figures it's under 5/16"-- way too narrow for any lap steel IMO, esp. a 6-string. The man has a way with wood, though!
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 23 Jan 2007 7:31 pm
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I agree with Jeff, a pickup that far from the bridge will NOT have sufficient 'PERCEIVED" sustain (Too much transient), and what's with the ANGLED bridge?
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| The scale length is 24 5/8"(gibson) |
Since when was Gibson's lap steel scale length that ?
Nice wood though.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Jan 2007 5:00 pm
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| It's a matter of personal taste, of course, but I wish when people put all that time and effort into building a lap steel they would put eight strings on it. Six are very limiting. |
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John D. Carter
From:
Canton, Ohio, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2007 7:56 pm
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| My first impression was, wow, what beautiful craftsmanship! My concerns (before I read any of the above comments) was, what appears to be, standard guitar spacing at the nut, the slant in the bridge, and no tone control. I like the creative shape of the body and head. One would be hard-pressed to build this for $400 and it certainly would not look this good unless one was extremely talented in wood working. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 1:26 pm
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| Reminds me a bit of the old Alembic instruments from the 70s ... organic elements and design lines that at first seem to flow but on closer inspection seem to fight one another; tele knobs and humbucking pickup and Les Paul-like bridge; odd scale length; pickup too far from bridge, etc. I don't like to knock anyone who's building lap steels and I give brownie points for trying something different yet I'm with Jeff, I'd give this one a wide berth. |
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 2:40 pm
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| Beautiful instrument, but obviously made by someone with no real familiarity with steel guitars. It's built from a electric guitar perspective. |
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