![]() ![]() ![]() From that line measure 21” and mark a line across the board. ![]() (I’ll call this the “nut line” from here on out) This section will be the head of your guitar. Start off by marking a line across the board 5 inches from one end. If you don’t care about plugging your guitar into an amp, you don’t need the last three things on the list. You can certainly substitute what you have on hand. 10 carpet tacks (nearly free from an estate sale).2” long ¾” angle iron (piece of a dumpstered bed frame).You’ll need a tuning key if you don’t have one) 6 zither pin tuners (available from for 50cents each.Scrap wood – 1.5”x5.5”x~32” (this was just a standard 2×6 I pulled out of a construction dumpster).This project was easily accomplished over the span of a weekend while working on my other lap steel and all the millions of other things I’m usually trying to squeeze into a weekend. Problem was, I didn’t want to wait, so I started working on a primitive lap steel guitar at the same time. To make a long story short, I needed to acquire a bit more knowledge and some materials I didn’t have to build the guitar that I really wanted to build. So I started looking through a library book about electric guitar building. I wanted to use a traditional magnetic pickup rather than a piezo, but I’d never used one before, so before I could do that I had to figure out how to install one. So I went to the store, got some wood and started laying it out. Something similar to this 1960 Fender Champ. Something like a pedal steel, but with just 6 strings and a little more shape to it. I wanted one that didn’t look much like a traditional guitar. I started looking at pictures and looking for details like string spacing, and scale length. I recently got a hankering to build a lap steel guitar. HOW TO BUILD A PRIMITIVE LAP STEEL GUITAR ![]()
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