Twin Neck Lap Steel

[ozziebluesman]

Here is a twin neck lap steel I have just finished for a mate. Body is Queensland Maple thanks to Localele, Indian Rosewood fingerboard, bridge and pickup surrounds. The pickups are Seymour Duncan stacked, noisless soap bars. Sounds nice and fat! Setup for open G and G6 tunings.

Thanks for looking
Cheers
Alan

[kiwigeo]

Lookin' good there Alan...I like the bridges.

As an aside....is your grass really as big as it appears in the photo or is the lappie really small??

[Dave White]

Alan,

That looks really nice. What are the scale lengths ? Are the pickups in a different position on each neck to generate a different sound?

Any sound clips?

[Allen]

I like that Alan.

Is that your first go at a slotted headstock? What type of machine heads did you use?

[Nick]

Sharp looking piece of work there Alan! The combination of timbers really looks the bees knees sitting beside each other.
And I'm with Martin...that is some serious looking,hard wearing grass you got there.

[Joe Sustaire]

That is fine looking Alan! I started to ask, what no tone or volume, but now I see them on the off side. One tone, one volume or just a volume for each?

Joe

[ozziebluesman]

G'day everyone and thanks for your comments.

Martin: It's buffalo grass and it grows well up here in the tropics. It gets a water once a week and always looks good. Very hardy stuff and I don't mow it really short and it always stays green. We haven't had any rain for three months here yet the the first few months of the year we had over a meter and a half of rain.

Dave: Scale length both 25" and pickups positioned for different tone. The neck with the pickup closer to the fingerboard is tuned to G6 and it sounds wonderful. We did some experimenting with the pickup positioning so the owner could select what he wanted in terms of tone. Very warm on this neck. The other is brash and in your face. These pickups are very powerful I can tell you!! No sound clips but it is a full tone.

Allen: Yes that's my first go at a slotted headstock. Great learning experience and the job is not bad with room for improvement. The heads are Goto mini size guitar tuners.

Nick O: It was a fun project. The rosewood, queensland maple looks good together.

Joe: Yep you spotted the controls off to the side. Because the guitar is not all that wide we decided to place the controls on the side so they won't hinder playing the instrument. The fingerboard furtherest away from you when playing is slightly raised 5mm to allow smooth transition form one neck to the other. The owner wanted just two volume controls as with the two necks you can set two different playing tones. The guitar is for "Western Swing" and "Country" style music. He is a good player too!!!

Fellow formite Jeff provided the wiring idea so it is wired the same as a Fender Jazz bass but without the tone control, just two volume controls. Worked a treat.

Cheers

Alan

[Kim]

Very cool Alan, the new owner must be wrapped.

As with Dave White, we may have to make it mandatory for you to provide a sound file with your creations. Don't like singling people out mind but it's you own silly fault for sounding so bloody good.

Cheers

Kim

[Taffy Evans]

Good stuff Alan, it looks great, a nice balance of materials and fittings. The controls in the side keep the top from looking cluttered.

[Dave Anderson]

It looks like a fun project Alan! Very
nice work.

[Localele]

That Looks great Alan. Can't wait to hear some of it on the next "Family Band" album.