Show us your steel guitar

[L_Totti]

Lap Steels , Pedal Steels , Squareneck resonators , etc.



Trussart/Zemaits and Roundneck Resos not allowed

 

[Member 37136]

Chris Fouke Industrial Guitars: Indy-8 lap steel, in aluminum.

 

[musicofanatic5]

Here's the BMI psg. I have no shots of my Fender S-8 Deluxe, Supro lap or Dobro.

 

[Bhodie]

Little lap steel love!

My 1936 7 string Ricky

My 1960 Fender Deluxe 8

My 1957 Fender Stringmaster D8

My one off custom design William's D8

Sold all the pedal steels.. I cant chew gum and walk at the same time!

In fact, sold off all my guitars except for my A59 335 Nashville historic..

The Fenders played through my 1971 Vibrolux Reverb (original tubes, 2nd owner) sound so juicy, you just cant believe it...

 

[sonhenry]

Here's mine, a triple neck stringmaster and a double neck supro.

 

[nmiller]

1948 Epiphone Duo Console:

1940 National New Yorker (and matching Model 75 amp):

This 1920s Slingerland parlor was built as a Spanish-style guitar, but the neck has bowed considerably. Otherwise it's in great condition, and it has a loud, booming voice that belies its size. The price was right, too, so I turned it into a Hawaiian guitar with a nut extender:

Two Oahus that I used to own, a ca. 1940 Diana and a 1953 Iolana:

Two more that I used to own, a '30s Epiphone Electar and a '35 National Electric Hawaiian:

 

[Quarter]

A modern warrior with an old school flair

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[Bhodie]

Tom. Beautiful work!

 

[telest]

Tom. Beautiful work!

Yes indeed! Cool thread by the way, I love Steel Guitar, pedal, lap...yeah.

Steve

 

[Gas-man]

Nice Pamona there Quarter tell us how you have the benders set up and what tuning you are using.

I have a '57 Fender Steelmaster that looks like this:

 

[Prairie Belt]

Not very detailed, but I always liked these two photos of my Emmons. It's a '75 D10. I've been playing it through a Furlong/Sarno combo amp, with the Sarno Classic Pre and a JBL K130.

 

[bagpipe]

I have two lapsteels: a newer Bluestem and an older Mason. They're great fun to play and add a little something special to certain recordings.

 

[JimmyB]

I have two lapsteels: a newer Bluestem and an older Mason. They're great fun to play and add a little something special to certain recordings.

If you ever decide to sell the Mason, let me know!!!

 

[zombywoof]

Some Valco Goodness - 1950s Oahu Tonemaster with the strings through pickup

Also a 1929-1931 First Hawaiin Conservatory of Music concert. You got this free when you ordered lessons from Oscar Schmidt's mail order music business. This was Schmidt's standard Stella - all birch, angled neck heel, square top kerfing, arched back - set up as a lap guitar. I converted it to a regular old geetar.

 

[L_Totti]

Lots of great looking steels here.
I'm GASing over some steels at Gruhn and this thread is certanily not helping

I'll take (crappy) pics of my Supro tomorrow.

What tunings are you guys using?

 

[Gas-man]

C6 and a weird altered version of E9.

 

[KevinF]

Here is my 1957 Gibson Electraharp with original PAF pickup. I am in the process of building a lapsteel... my winter project.

 

[clemduolian]

'53 Fender Stringmaster (26" scale, serial # 0069); 1960's ZB transformed into 10 string lap steel, sitting on a 1930's Ludwig drum throne.

 

[clemduolian]

Here is my 1957 Gibson Electraharp with original PAF pickup. I am in the process of building a lapsteel... my winter project.

 

[RomanS]

Homemade 8-string lap steel (C6 tuning):

Homemade lap steel with Duesenberg Multibender (E6 tuning, two benders work like the A & B pedals on E9-pedal steel, the third one takes the 6th up to a dom7):

1952 Supro Supreme lap steel (tuned C6):

SX squareneck resonator, pimped with a Dobro Lace Sensor pickup (G6 tuning):

WBS Basic 1 pedal steel (E9 tuning):