What amp for lap steel?

[Jim Thrall]

I have no steel amp. Given that, what will suffice for home practice and occasional outside work? I have an older 70's tube type B12XT Ampeg (huge and heavy) that I used for jazz guitar, w/Johnny Smith Gibson and Tele thinline. I also have a small solid state 15" Polytone Minibrute IV and a Kustom III Bass head w/ 15" JBL bass cabinet. Generally, I don't need reverb, but will use a volume pedal.
Jim Thrall

[David L. Donald]

Well it depends on the style you want to play.
A nice 110 Princeton or a vintage DELUXE are both nice
but quite different sounds.

I have a '60 Champ and vs drums it's
not loud enough for clean
but it screams for dirty sound.

The Princeton would go louder clean,
and the Deluxe the same again, but grittier.

I would say a small tube amp with chanel switching
if tyou want two available sounds.

[Jim Thrall]

David,
Thanks for your comments. I was not clear on my original question. I owned a late 60's Fender Deluxe and loved it till I started playing P bass and needed something bigger. The Ampeg B12XT was what I used for bass, guitar and later on for electric keyboards. It really did a fine job and offered twin channels w/ seperate controls and good spring reverb. Believe it or not, it is still going strong 40 years later! The solid state MiniBrute IV will be my practice amp around home I guess.
As for style, I was brought up playing "standards" 40's and 50's and some older-style western music when I backed up vocalists. I know I can't pickup what I've forgotten over 50 years but that's just age showing!
JimT

[Lynn Oliver]

What sound are you looking for that you aren't getting from your present amps?

If it were me I'd take a close look at the TC Furlong models combined with a Tonic preamp.

[David L. Donald]

Well sounds like an '60's Deluxe clone would make you pretty happy.

And a lot cheaper than buying a REAL '60's Deluxe too.