The second lap steel and case I built. Tulipwood with curly maple top acacia burl bridge and inlayed acacia burl fretboard, both with ebony and maple veneer purfling border. Vintage teisco pickups. Through body strings. Duesenberg z-tuners. Pickguard made out of an old vinyl record. Finish is French polished shellac.

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This is the first lap steel guitar I built. It’s made out of red meranti with a curly maple veneer top.  The hardware is mostly stuff I had lying around, like a telecaster bridge and bridge pickup and some old Ibanez humbucker. The fretboard is maple with inlayed strips of stained veneer. I made the scratchplate from an old vinyl record. The wiring is kinda cool: one volume pot and one blend pot. The whole thing is finished with hand rubbed shellac.

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This is the first guitar I ever built. It’s a regular old telecaster. It has an alder body and a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. It has GFS pickups, and I screwed the bridge pickup right into the body for an extra fat tone. Sounds great! The body is finished with hand rubbed shellac, and the neck with some kind of curing oil blend I got from a local luthier (Rikkers).

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