Show Us Your Lap Steels

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 7 Aug 2013 6:41 am

Wow, Michael, What an awesome collection!

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 7 Aug 2013 6:52 am

I really just have one that I play:

I also have the Rogue I converted to a lap sitar and my old Electar Model M, but those aren't usually in my hands much at all.

Jean-Sebastien Gauthier · Post by **Jean-Sebastien Gauthier** » 7 Aug 2013 9:00 am

My Temblay with a Lollar pickup.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 7 Aug 2013 11:11 am

Late Forties(?) Orpheum. Lights under the fretboard.

Yup. Two cords; one to the amp, the other to a 120 volt wall outlet. Just set it on your lap, and be careful!

Lynn Wheelwright · Post by **Lynn Wheelwright** » 8 Aug 2013 4:34 pm

Lynn Wheelwright · Post by **Lynn Wheelwright** » 8 Aug 2013 6:44 pm

Nate Hofer · Post by **Nate Hofer** » 9 Aug 2013 4:22 am

Lynn, incredible! Got any video or sound recordings of that beast to share?

Nate Hofer · Post by **Nate Hofer** » 9 Aug 2013 4:25 am

JSG, which Lollar pup is that?

Nate Hofer · Post by **Nate Hofer** » 9 Aug 2013 4:27 am

Mike, what scale neck is that?

Hugh Roche · Post by **Hugh Roche** » 9 Aug 2013 6:51 am

my sj 7 with prismatone pu and #51 i bought new and a homemade that drifted in form beyond the reef

Dennis Smith · Post by **Dennis Smith** » 9 Aug 2013 1:04 pm

Nice bunch of steels. A few questions.
Jean-Sebastien love the look of the Timblay wood frypan.

John anymore info on the Orpheum? I've seen them on ebay before and didn't know they were form the 40's. Any recordings of it?

Lynn love the green color of the steel who made it?
Thanks Dennis

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 9 Aug 2013 1:28 pm

Dennis,
No more info on the Orpheum. It could have been a name that was owned by a distributor, as there were Orpheum banjos and other instruments. I bought it off ebay years ago. I thought the use of plastics was just too cool! After the War, manufacturers were looking for other uses for the plastics they had developed for the military. It's really quite a lovely guitar! The pickup honks! Looks kinda like a really obese old Tele pickup.

C. E. Jackson · Post by **C. E. Jackson** » 9 Aug 2013 2:35 pm

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 9 Aug 2013 4:26 pm

A few of my toys...

Lynn Wheelwright · Post by **Lynn Wheelwright** » 9 Aug 2013 6:01 pm

The shipping ledgers indicate there were 7 strings, here are two of them and a 6 just for fun.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 10 Aug 2013 6:13 am

Dom Franco · Post by **Dom Franco** » 10 Aug 2013 8:33 am

Dom Franco

Wally Pfeifer · Post by **Wally Pfeifer** » 10 Aug 2013 8:37 am

1953/54 Fender Duo Pro 6 Stringmaster.
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C. E. Jackson · Post by **C. E. Jackson** » 10 Aug 2013 12:30 pm

My collection includes 14 EH-185 Gibson Models:

6, 7, 8, 10 String C.C. pu Models

6, 7, 8 String ES-300 Models

6 String Natural (factory modified) ES-300 pu 1940

6 String Silk-Screen Logo ES-300 pu 1942

(see 2 EH-185 models photos posted earlier)

John Dahms · Post by **John Dahms** » 10 Aug 2013 2:03 pm

I thought I was decadent, all the sudden I feel pretty normal compared to C.E.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 10 Aug 2013 2:18 pm

Yes, there is some serious steel guitar porn in this thread!

I thought I had a lot of nice, old stuff, but my dozen or so steel guitars and a half-dozen amps are nothing compared to all this.

Lynn Wheelwright · Post by **Lynn Wheelwright** » 10 Aug 2013 3:51 pm

C. E. Jackson · Post by **C. E. Jackson** » 10 Aug 2013 5:08 pm

Love 7 Stringers for A6 Tuning (see previous posts for some of my other 7 Stringers)

Claude Misukiewicz · Post by **Claude Misukiewicz** » 10 Aug 2013 6:33 pm

Ben Rubright wrote:

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Thiel Hatt · Post by **Thiel Hatt** » 10 Aug 2013 8:39 pm

Something a bit different. 10 string E13th tuning paired in octaves. Has a George L E66 pickup.

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Show Us Your Lap Steels

I just like this one

TOO many strings

Re: TOO many strings

1940 Gibson EH-185 10S & 1941 Gibson EH-185 8S Natural

Three of the F-1162 EH-275 batch.

More Photos of Gibson EH-185 Model

Something White and Black, Small and Crazy

Some 7 Stringers and a 7-8 1937 Rocco from my Collection

Ben Rubright, please identify amazing LS and its material.