Lap steel-influenced Gibson Les Paul

Rick Batey · Posted 19 May 2007 3:47 pm

Gibson probably doesn't think it's worth reissuing lap steels, but someone at the custom shop seems to have an eye for some lap steel design cues. This is a prototype Gibson 'Skylark' Les Paul in the hands of Joe Bonamassa. It's made of korina and has some kind of lap-style bridge plate, plus a Skylark lap headstock and BR-9 fingerboard markers...

I like it. It's got a kind of Gibson-meets-Supro vibe.

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

Rick, a few years ago I traded a Les Paul standard in to get a high dollar acoustic electric. Anyway, the store eventually sold the LP to an older fellow who played lapsteel. He put a raised nut on it and to this day uses it as a lapsteel. I'd never heard of that before but he does pretty good with it and it sounds sweet...........JH in Va.
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Leslie Ehrlich · From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

I prefer PSG for slide playing. The Sho-Bud single coils sound similar to Gibson P90s, and if I want to change 'tunings' I just hold down a couple pedals. Also, with the heavy steel bar and high action there's none of that annoying sustain-killng fret buzz that comes with playing conventional 'slide' guitar.

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