surfpup Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 That's right... new lap steel day. Picked up a super cheap Chinese lap steel at the Orlando Guitar Expo yesterday. The paint was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 So today I gutted it. Took out all the cheap crap... pickup, pots, capacitor, jack, and wire. I had a decent extra single coil in a drawer (GFS 70s model)... used a good jack, some CTS pots, a paper in oil cap and some cloth covered wire (mojo ya know) and it's sounding pretty good. Used black speed knobs since the cover on the new pup was black. I would like to ditch the generic lookign "fretboard" as well. There are replacement decals out there - just gotta look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aster1 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Sure do like the sound of a pedal guitar esp. when Marshall Tucker played "Fire on the Mountain. How close will a lap steel sound to a pedal? Aster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Sure do like the sound of a pedal guitar esp. when Marshall Tucker played "Fire on the Mountain. How close will a lap steel sound to a pedal? Aster It's not the same cuz you can't get those pulled string sounds. But the lap steel covers a lot of ground. It sounds great in blues and country and you can even rock it out quite a bit - depending on your tuning. I love the pedal steel too. I'd love to learn to pay it. Maybe one day I can make the leap to that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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