Lap Steels

Steven Paris · Post by **Steven Paris** » 31 Mar 2019 2:19 pm

Including 6-8-10-12 strings

Daniel McKee · Post by **Daniel McKee** » 31 Mar 2019 2:36 pm

I have 2 six string lap steels. Neither is really anything special but I enjoy playing them. I think everyone has reasons for having multiple such as experimenting with tunings. I keep C6th on my long scale and on my short scale I change from C6th to a few other tunings when I wanna try something different.

Bill Groner · Post by **Bill Groner** » 31 Mar 2019 3:24 pm

One store bought, 5 1/2 homemade.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 31 Mar 2019 3:53 pm

Lap steels are like Lay's potato chips.

Michael Butler · Post by **Michael Butler** » 1 Apr 2019 8:58 am

Jack Hanson wrote:Lap steels are like Lay's potato chips.

they crunch easy! ha!

Bill Sinclair · Post by **Bill Sinclair** » 1 Apr 2019 11:46 am

When it got to twelve I had to impose a one-in, one-out policy. Dual neck consoles still just count as one guitar though.

Bob Russell · Post by **Bob Russell** » 1 Apr 2019 6:06 pm

Chandler RH-2, Asher Electro Hawaiian Jr. and a Gretsch resonator.

Andrea Tazzini · Post by **Andrea Tazzini** » 2 Apr 2019 2:36 am

Brooks Montgomery · Post by **Brooks Montgomery** » 2 Apr 2019 8:41 am

I didn't count dobros and weissies. that makes my vote wrong by a significant factor. Puts me in the upper, absurd amount category

Bob Russell · Post by **Bob Russell** » 2 Apr 2019 7:19 pm

Brooks Montgomery wrote:I didn't count dobros and weissies. that makes my vote wrong by a significant factor. Puts me in the upper, absurd amount category

Oh yeah, forgot about my Weissenborn...

Lee Holliday · Post by **Lee Holliday** » 5 Apr 2019 9:21 am

At least five electric and nearly the same acoustic/resonators, your right I should have more!!!

lee

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 5 Apr 2019 9:37 am

It changes from day to day, but currently, 4 electric steels, 5 dobros.

Joe Elk · Post by **Joe Elk** » 5 Apr 2019 9:42 am

6 Steels 4 I built m self and 3 reresonoators One is a 10 String Dobo.
Joe Elk Central Ohio

David Weisenthal · Post by **David Weisenthal** » 5 Apr 2019 11:30 am

3 double-eight consoles, and 2 laps. I'm sure another will appear by the end of the year. I hang the laps up...looks cool.

Steven Pearce · Post by **Steven Pearce** » 5 Apr 2019 4:12 pm

Four...oh and a lone (NO laughing!) 1973 Sho Bud Maverick

Don Barnhardt · Post by **Don Barnhardt** » 5 Apr 2019 4:17 pm

15 and still building.

Nic Neufeld · Post by **Nic Neufeld** » 5 Apr 2019 6:35 pm

Oh boy...I voted 3-5 and then immediately realized I'd miscounted. I have a little bit of "redundancy"...my very first lap steel (absurdly short scale Morrell student model) I almost never play unless I need a guitar I can fit into a suitcase diagonally to fly with. And my Mag doubleneck and Stringmaster triple are a bit redundant practically. But the tricone and the 8 string SX lap each get played a lot too...one as the acoustic guitar, the other as the portable version of my consoles, and the Fender 400 is completely its own thing (maybe it doesn't count as a lap steel admittedly). I would say after an initial frenzy of guitar acquisition I'm pretty happy with my guitars and don't find myself trawling reverb.com or the for sale selection like I did before.

Honestly, it's a plank with strings...one of the most transparent possible instruments ever devised...so I try (with varying degrees of success) to focus more on my playing and less on my gear (as a recovering gearhead). Still, as a bit of a museum curator type personality I love the idea of rescuing an instrument that would otherwise be ripped apart for parts or get bolted up on a wall as a display...and then play the music on it for which it was built. Preserving both the music and the instruments...

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 6 Apr 2019 5:22 am

A dozen plus...and my wife bought the D-6 Stringmaster for me as a Christmas gift. She is fine with my collection. I am a lucky man.

Tom Cooper · Post by **Tom Cooper** » 6 Apr 2019 10:51 am

Two 8 string, and one 10 string. Only gig with the 10 string.

James Honberger · Post by **James Honberger** » 6 Apr 2019 1:17 pm

I have 5 six strings, one husk waiting to be restored, and 3 builds going on.

Paul Honeycutt · Post by **Paul Honeycutt** » 10 Apr 2019 6:30 pm

I just have one lap steel, but I have a double neck console. I had a few at one time, but I kept the one I played the most. I wish I'd kept a couple of them.

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