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.

The simple one shown on the left and a more conventional 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. 32 800mm scale length 22 5 571 5mm 19 16 40mm 4 100mm. In this my first instructable i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar.

Here s a quick video below. Building a lap steel guitar. Play your newly converted lap steel guitar. As you can tell i m still learning how to play this properly.

Excerpt from the book it s easy to build your own lap steel guitar. 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. 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. The lap steel plays great too.

For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel. In fact the most difficult part will be learning to play the instrument but that s a different story. Hudson steel guitars is now offering lap steel guitar kits. Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached.

Building a basic lap steel guitar. Making a lap steel guitar is a good way of starting to get into guitarbuilding. The whole thing feels great on your lap and looks absurdly cool. It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels.

I have a champ style kit in right handed or left handed and a string master style single neck only kit. Anybody can build this lap steel guitar. 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 book describes the building of two lap steel guitars.