Making Your Own Lap Steel Guitar

All you need is a little patience some supplies and a desire to craft your own instrument.

Making your own lap steel guitar.

For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel. Hudson steel guitars is now offering lap steel guitar kits. 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. Anybody can build this lap steel guitar.

Making a lap steel guitar is a good way of starting to get into guitarbuilding. Power tools and sharp cutting tools will be used and i take no responsibility for people who use these things carelessly read and. Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached. The book describes the building of two lap steel guitars.

Here s a quick video below. Play your newly converted lap steel guitar. Building a basic lap steel guitar. Building a lap steel guitar.

In this my first instructable i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar. 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. As you can tell i m still learning how to play this properly. In fact the most difficult part will be learning to play the instrument but that s a different story.

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. The whole thing feels great on your lap and looks absurdly cool. I have a champ style kit in right handed or left handed and a string master style single neck only kit.

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. 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. It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels. Excerpt from the book it s easy to build your own lap steel guitar.