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.
Lap steel plus case.
The nut is made out of a piece of brass profile. €10 per two meters. Or thirteen bucks per six feet or so.
I used vintage style tuners on this one. They do their job, everything stays in tune fine. As you can see, I left the meranti unstained. I think it’s pretty.