Oct 05, 2013 Title: Its Easy To Build Your Own Lap Steel Guitar M, Author: WendyTalbott, Name: Its Easy To Build Your Own Lap Steel Guitar M, Length: 5 pages, Page: 1, Published: 2013-10-05 Issuu company logo. Oct 12, 2010 i'm in the process of building a Champion-style lap steel (the thread is around here somewhere.) i couldn't, for the life of me, find any PDF's or templates for any Fender lap steels online. I ended up finding a large, high-quality front-on photo of a Fender Champion and enlarged it in GIMP until it was the correct size. I kept track of known measurements that i WAS able to find (or already.
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Looking forward to seeing your project when its done, its a lot of fun building them.How many strings? What kind of tone are you looking for?
For 6 string pickups, P90 type pickups work great and are fairly plentiful in a lot of price points.
For 8 string, Lollar, Vintage Vibe, and Jerry Wallace all offer some well respected pickups.
You can use a lot of different materials for nuts ... aluminum, brass, Corian, bone.
I've been using mostly bone and like it a lot. Its easy to shape and work with and has a nice bright clear tone.
For six strings, I've used off the shelf Strat / Tele hard tail bridges with very good results. I've also made a few out of aluminum channel, angle, and round rod that sound great too.
Stainless steel or brass works too.
8 string bridges will need to be made, though Hipshot does make an 8 string hard tail and Trilogy.
For a plan, I think Bluestem has a full scale free plan they offer for download.
If you do a design of your own, it helps to draw it out full scale first.
Start with a centerline and go from there.
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