Making Your Own Lap Steel Guitar

The simple one shown on the left and a more conventional lap steel guitar.

Making your own lap steel guitar. There are several factors that make building a lap steel easy. Use a slide on the fretboard and pick the strings either with your fingers or with a combination of thumb and finger picks. The whole thing feels great on your lap and looks absurdly cool. For more fun projects please visit my youtube channel.

Simple lap steel guitar i call this lap steel guitar simple because it is basi cally just a blank with strings attached. Play your newly converted lap steel guitar. All you need is a little patience some supplies and a desire to craft your own instrument. 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.

I have a champ style kit in right handed or left handed and a string master style single neck only kit. 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. It s set up with a standard 23 inch scale just like the store bought lap steels.

Power tools and sharp cutting tools will be used and i take no responsibility for people who use these things carelessly read and. Anybody can build this lap steel guitar. Hudson steel guitars is now offering lap steel guitar kits. 32 800mm scale length 22 5 571 5mm 19 16 40mm 4 100mm.

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. Here s a quick video below. The lap steel plays great too. The book describes the building of two lap steel guitars.

Building a lap steel guitar. 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. Making a lap steel guitar is a good way of starting to get into guitarbuilding. In this my first instructable i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar.