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.

Excerpt from the book it s easy to build your own lap steel guitar. As you can tell i m still learning how to play this properly. Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached. In this my first instructable i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar.

There are several factors that make building a lap steel easy. 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. 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. The simple one shown on the left and a more conventional lap steel guitar.

Use a slide on the fretboard and pick the strings either with your fingers or with a combination of thumb and finger picks. Building a lap steel guitar. For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel. Here s a quick video below.

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. 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. Anybody can build this lap steel guitar.

The lap steel plays great too. 32 800mm scale length 22 5 571 5mm 19 16 40mm 4 100mm. Power tools and sharp cutting tools will be used and i take no responsibility for people who use these things carelessly read and. Hudson steel guitars is now offering lap steel guitar kits.

It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels. 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. The book describes the building of two lap steel guitars. Building a basic lap steel guitar.