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 Post subject: Lap Steel
PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:44 pm 
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I know theres a lap steel thread somewhere... but does anyone know if theres any places online that sell vintage ones? tried ebay and it's usually cheapo Jagard / Artisan that come up or mega expensive gibsons.
I remember seeing a toilet seat covered national at guitar fest in leeds for £250 that i wish that i'd bought!
Vintage & Rare have a few but are quite expensive.

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try [url]gbase.com[/url] a lot of instrument dealers have profiles on there- i reckon you could find what youre looking for

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cheers, will have a look.

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Reet, just 'won' myself one of these off ebay for the very nice price of 64quid! , my dilemma now is which tone bar to go for? i'm fancying one of the 'bar' type ones with the grips either side, but heard you can do slants more easily with the 'Bullet' type. , gonna try with a normal guitar bottleneck for the time being tho.
Anyone got any tips?
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Got the Lap Steel yesterday (just in time for band practice), needs a new set of strings as the ones fitted are very light, but i gave it a blast and it sounds awesome. hopefully will get an airing at this weekends gig!

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if you can get a flat bar rather than a tube or round shaped one you will find it easier to pitch at first is my tip

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Cheers Richard,
Ordered a Shubb flat bar (SP2 i think) off the net, and some Heavy strings too.

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Lap steel cleaned & now set up with a set of 15-58 strings, and a Shubb Robert Randolph tonebare (like a SP2 only longer). tuned it to open G for starters and it sounds fantastic! well impressed.

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on my Selmer,the one i played recently with Pulp,the tuning is A-Csharp-E-A-Csharp-E which is ace....literally

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Cheers, i'll give that a go.

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when i play slide- i put it in lou reed's ostrich tuning- sounds great- very psychedelic, esp with a bit of hair on it and some trem

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