Members desiderium Posted December 10, 2005 Members Posted December 10, 2005 Thinking hard about picking this up, but don't know the first thing about them. Any tips?
Members JasmineTea Posted December 10, 2005 Members Posted December 10, 2005 Get it. Even if you never figure it out, you won't regret it. It's fun. Mine is a '52 National with a simaler pup, same color mother-of-toilet-seat. Sounds WAY-COOL. They are'nt hard to play, realy. Tune it to different chords, slide around on it, you'll figure it out. I do a lot of two string stuff. There's a million licks on there, if you keep looking for them. Once you learn it, you don't forget it. It only takes an hour or two to get your chops back after putting it down for a time.
Members JasmineTea Posted December 10, 2005 Members Posted December 10, 2005 Here's a tip: It sounds best through a small, old, tube amp. Bigger tube amps like a twinn sound nice too, but tubes are a must, and the small amps realy do it nicely
Members desiderium Posted December 10, 2005 Author Members Posted December 10, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea Here's a tip: It sounds best through a small, old, tube amp. Bigger tube amps like a twinn sound nice too, but tubes are a must, and the small amps realy do it nicely i've got a 68 bassman with 2x15s... i bet that would sound killer! thanks for the help... it's a 58 supro. i'd post a link, but i don't want someone to snag it before i get it .... probably with my xmas money!
Members JasmineTea Posted December 10, 2005 Members Posted December 10, 2005 It should'nt be too expensive. I got mine free....long story.
Members desiderium Posted December 10, 2005 Author Members Posted December 10, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea It should'nt be too expensive. I got mine free....long story. this one is about 400, but i'll get to try it out before i buy since it's local.
Members JasmineTea Posted December 10, 2005 Members Posted December 10, 2005 Originally posted by desiderium this one is about 400, but i'll get to try it out before i buy since it's local. If I did'nt have a lap steel i'd pay $400 for it. Mabey they'll come down. The pole-piece screws can get stuck on those. the screws are made of aluminum so they break easy. Might wanna soak them before turning them. That is, if they need any turning. It's a double coil pup, two small coils, one beneeeth EAD, the other beneeth GBA,. It sounds like a single. The pole-pieces are directly under the holes you see in the metal piece covering the pup.
Members desiderium Posted December 10, 2005 Author Members Posted December 10, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea If I did'nt have a lap steel i'd pay $400 for it. Mabey they'll come down.The pole-piece screws can get stuck on those. the screws are made of aluminum so they break easy. Might wanna soak them before turning them. That is, if they need any turning. It's a double coil pup, two small coils, one beneeeth EAD, the other beneeth GBA,. It sounds like a single. The pole-pieces are directly under the holes you see in the metal piece covering the pup. any other lap steels worth looking into? this one is cool since it's got some vibe, but if i can get a higher quality lap stell for around the same, i'd rather go that route.
Members JasmineTea Posted December 10, 2005 Members Posted December 10, 2005 Originally posted by desiderium any other lap steels worth looking into?this one is cool since it's got some vibe, but if i can get a higher quality lap stell for around the same, i'd rather go that route. Lots. Look around on the net. National, Epiphone, gibson, Fender, Supro, ...Try this, looks interesting.
Members Kap'n Posted December 11, 2005 Members Posted December 11, 2005 I haven't been keeping up on lap steel prices, but $400 sounds pretty high for one that's not a Fender, Rick or Gibson Skylark (korina). Remember, they made zillions of those things, and they're way more plentiful than you can imagine. Shop around.
Members JasmineTea Posted December 11, 2005 Members Posted December 11, 2005 Originally posted by Kap'n I haven't been keeping up on lap steel prices, but $400 sounds pretty high for one that's not a Fender, Rick or Gibson Skylark (korina).Remember, they made zillions of those things, and they're way more plentiful than you can imagine. Shop around. You're right. But I don't see them often. I'd bargain a little before buying that one, but I still would'nt feel bad about paying 4 bills for it.
Members desiderium Posted December 11, 2005 Author Members Posted December 11, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea You're right. But I don't see them often. I'd bargain a little before buying that one, but I still would'nt feel bad about paying 4 bills for it. also, what guage strings do you use with these... are the tuned hig, low, or somewhere in between? i did a little reading and i'll probably put it in standard guitar tuning, but since i play in a lot of alternate tunings on my acoustic i'll mess around with some of those too.
Members DdBob Posted December 11, 2005 Members Posted December 11, 2005 Originally posted by desiderium also, what guage strings do you use with these... are the tuned hig, low, or somewhere in between?i did a little reading and i'll probably put it in standard guitar tuning, but since i play in a lot of alternate tunings on my acoustic i'll mess around with some of those too. Lap steel's my most recent gas Hopefully I can pick up a nice vintage supro or somthing one day for now I'm getting on of these http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Artisan/EA_1_Lap_Steel-1.htmlcan't go wrong for 50.00$ anyway In my quest to learn about the steel I ran across this on string guageshttp://www.hawaiiansteel.com/learning/gauges.htmlhttp://www.rahul.net/gaa/C6/index.shtml
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