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Bluestem Strings Beginners Guide To Lap Steel Construction INTRODUCTION Thinking of building your first lap steel? Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming to think of gathering all the requisite information necessary to construct a basic instrument, especially if you have no prior experience with musical instrument construction. Bluestem Strings Beginners Guide To Lap Steel Construction. Shapes that are loosely guitar based. I think the lap steel. Building a basic lap steel is a great.

Build yourself a really cool lap steel guitar with these detailed, professionally drawn plans. Plans show complete details drawn full scale (1:1).

Complete materials list and sources, wiring details for volume and tone controls, fretboard dimensions and much more. The Photos below show a lap steel guitar built from these exact plans. Construction Photos of guitar built from these plans. You can build this guitar from a variety of woods. The example below is white maple. A 3/4' thick planed board, 72' long x 8' was used. The board was cut in half to get two 36'x8'x3/4' pieces.

These pieces where glued together to get an 1 1/2' body block. The outline of the guitar was printed on 8 1/2'x11' paper and taped together. The paper template was traced on the body blank and cut out with a band saw. (You could use a jig saw instead). The headstock/peghead with 'thinned' and angle to 3 degrees and 1/2'thick on the band saw. (You could use other saws, planes and chisels to get the peghead shape). The cavities for the electronics and picukp where cut with a forstner bit and a dremel tool.

This lap steel guitar features a solid white maple body, rosewood fretboard with low steel frets, custom made polymer clay position markers. Brazilian rosewood peghead veneer and trim plates. Standard lap steel 22 1/2' scale with 2' ebony nut. Kent Armstrong #MP-112K single coil pickup. Telecaster style, fully adjustable bridge.

500k volume and tone pots and standard 1/4' input jack. Grover 18:1 'Sta-tite' tuners. Set up with Morell JMLS-G strings (016,.018,.026N,.040N,.050N,.058N). Excellent tone! Plans are provided in a PDF document that is drawn 1:1 scale for printing on 24'x36' media. To get a full-size print of the construction plan you will need to take the PDF to a Quick Print business who can print documents on an ink jet printer that can take 24'x36' media. However, you can also print 'sections' of the plan on a smaller printer and tape together for cutting templates as needed. .

Fry-Pan Manufacturer Ro-Pat-In Company (later renamed to ) Period 1931/1932 – 1939 Construction Body type Cast aluminum Neck joint Set Woods Body Cast Neck Cast aluminum Fretboard Aluminum Hardware Bridge Aluminum One Rickenbacker horse-shoe magnet pickup Colors available Bare metal The ' Fry-Pan' in 1931/1932 was the first, receiving its patent in August 1937. A previous attempt, the 'Stromberg Electro', introduced in 1928 by the, was transducer-based using a 'vibration-transfer rod' from the instrument's sounding board attached to magnets inside the guitar itself and was not successful. Created the 'Fry-Pan' in 1931, and it was subsequently manufactured. The instrument—officially the Rickenbacker Electro A-22—earned its nickname because its circular body and long neck make it resemble a. It was designed to capitalize on the popularity of in the 1930s.

The instrument was made of cast, and featured a that incorporated a pair of horseshoe that arched over the strings. Beauchamp and machinist began selling the Fry-Pan in 1932, but Beauchamp was not awarded a patent for his idea until 1937, which allowed other guitar companies to produce electric guitars in the same period. Contents • • • • Development [ ] In the 1930s, Hawaiian music enjoyed widespread popularity in the United States. Biohazard urban discipline rar.