Making Your Own Lap Steel Guitar

I have a champ style kit in right handed or left handed and a string master style single neck only kit.

Making your own lap steel guitar.

As you can tell i m still learning how to play this properly. Building a basic lap steel guitar. There are several factors that make building a lap steel easy. Anybody can build this lap steel guitar.

For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel. The whole thing feels great on your lap and looks absurdly cool. All you need is a little patience some supplies and a desire to craft your own instrument. Use a slide on the fretboard and pick the strings either with your fingers or with a combination of thumb and finger picks.

The lap steel plays great too. To play your new lap steel guitar in the traditional manner lay the body of the guitar flat across your lap with the fretboard facing the ceiling. A lap steel guitar is an easy instrument to make since it requires none of the detailed shaping and fretwork required when building other types of guitars. Building a lap steel guitar.

Power tools and sharp cutting tools will be used and i take no responsibility for people who use these things carelessly read and. Champ style kits price is 349 95 string master kits price is 319 95 a hard case kit for champ or string master style is 90 00 all prices are plus shipping. However that doesn t mean that the instrument lacks anything a lap steel guitar needs and it can be played just as well as any other lap steel instrument. Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached.

Excerpt from the book it s easy to build your own lap steel guitar. It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels. The simple one shown on the left and a more conventional lap steel guitar. Here s a quick video below.

32 800mm scale length 22 5 571 5mm 19 16 40mm 4 100mm. In fact the most difficult part will be learning to play the instrument but that s a different story. Making a lap steel guitar is a good way of starting to get into guitarbuilding. Play your newly converted lap steel guitar.