I need Info on Lap Steel

Sam White R.I.P. · From: Coventry, RI 02816

I just bought a Artisan 6 string Lap Steel for a neighbor. Can someone tell me what it is Worth and the correct tuning and what strings I should use on this Beautiful looking Lap Steel. It is Red in color and it sounds real great.I will ne4ed some Lap Steel Tab if anyone can help I will really Appreciate it. Thank You
Sam White

Ben Jones · From: Seattle, Washington, USA

guitar is worth 50-100$ brand new.
I havent found alot of lap tabs out there especially for open tunings but heres Brads page http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/tab.html

some tabs and tunings there.
hope that helps some

Brad Bechtel · From: San Francisco, CA

Samuel,

As Ben said, Artisan lap steels are currently sold by Musician's Friend for $50 for the no-leg version (EA-1) and $80 for the leg version (EA-2).
You can use any set of electric guitar strings, with the string gauges depending on what tuning you want to use. I have a list of tunings on my web site.
You can do a search in this forum and in the Tablature forum for various contributions over the years. If you're looking for specific songs, let us know which ones.

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Mike McBride · From: Indiana

I copied this from someone's site. It might help. Sorry I can't remember where it came from.

Note	Gauge Range Typical
A	.009 to .011	.010
G#/Ab .010 to .011	.011
G	.011 to .012	.012
F#/Gb	.012 to .013	.013
F	.013 to .015	.013
E	.013 to .015	.014	Guitar High E
D#/Eb	.014 to .016	.015
D	.015 to .017	.016
C#/Db	.016 to .018	.017
C	.016 to .018	.017	Middle C
B	.017 to .019	.018
Bb/A#	.018 to .020	.020
A	.020* to .022* .021
G#/Ab	.024* to .026*	.024w
G	.024* to .026*	.024w
F#/Gb	.024w to .026w	.026w
F	.026w to .030w	.028w
E	.028w to .032w	.030w
D#/Eb	.028w to .032w	.032w
D	.032w to .036w	.034w Guitar D String
C#/Db	.034w to .038w	.036w
C	.034w to .038w	.036w
B	.034w to .038w	.038w
Bb/A#	.034w to .038w	.042w
A	.040w to .044w	.042w
G#/Ab	.042w to .046w	.046w
G	.044w to .048w	.048w
F#/Gb	.048w to .052w	.052w
F	.052w to .056w	.054w
E	.054w to .058w	.056w	Guitar Low E
D#/Eb	.056w to .060w	.058w
D	.060w to .064w	.060w
C#/Db	.060w to .068w	.064w
C	.064w to .068w	.068w
B	.064w to .068w	.068w
Bb/A#	.068w to .072w	.072w
A	.068w to .072w	.072w

[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 07 March 2006 at 06:29 PM.]

Brad Bechtel · From: San Francisco, CA

Sorry for the mixed up formatting and white space, Mike. This is the same string gauge chart given here on b0b's site.

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