Steel Rail Guitars
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Steel Rail Guitars
Hi All,
I started recently playing the lap steel and making these stainless steel guitars. These are 22.5" short scale length, and I'm working on a long scale model and a hard case for these.
www.steelrailguitars.com
I also wanted to say thanks to all the members here for posting tabs and links that have helped me learn to play!
It has been challenging for me to learn how to switch from standard guitar tuning to the C6 lap steel, so I started making this web page that shows different tunings and scale patterns.
It's a work in progress
www.steelrailguitars.com/fretboard.html
Cheers,
Jon
I started recently playing the lap steel and making these stainless steel guitars. These are 22.5" short scale length, and I'm working on a long scale model and a hard case for these.
www.steelrailguitars.com
I also wanted to say thanks to all the members here for posting tabs and links that have helped me learn to play!
It has been challenging for me to learn how to switch from standard guitar tuning to the C6 lap steel, so I started making this web page that shows different tunings and scale patterns.
It's a work in progress
www.steelrailguitars.com/fretboard.html
Cheers,
Jon
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Thanks for sharing your web page,i think it will help me a lot.
Carl
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Now have a SX 6 string lap in G,.A Tele plus telecaster, Larrivee acoustic.Also have a Fender resonator guitar with new Quarterman cone and spider,and an Allan tailpiece.Playing through a Fender Super Champ XD,using a little delay on the amp and a Harmonix Holy Grail Echo pedal,set on Hall turned to about 1pm.Just got a Fender Dual 6 Stringmaster style. Bought a Yamaha FGX5 Recently and love it.
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Thanks for posting, the aesthetics and sound clips are great.
Do you think you can go to 8 strings (or more) and keep same string spacing, or maybe spacing of 2 3/8" between strings 1 and 8, center to center?)
also going to spend time looking at fretboard visualizer https://www.steelrailguitars.com/fretboard.html
Thakns.
Do you think you can go to 8 strings (or more) and keep same string spacing, or maybe spacing of 2 3/8" between strings 1 and 8, center to center?)
also going to spend time looking at fretboard visualizer https://www.steelrailguitars.com/fretboard.html
Thakns.
- keyless Sonny Jenkins laps stay in tune forever!; Carter PSG
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Cool guitar, and your fretboard visualizer is great! I will link to it from my Lap Steel Tunings Page, https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database
Current Tunings:
6 String | D – D A D F# A D
7 String | D/f – f D A D F# A D
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database
6 String | D – D A D F# A D
7 String | D/f – f D A D F# A D
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database
I'm working on adding more options to the fretboard visualizer as I'm learning
The stainless steel works well so these instruments have lots of sustain, stay in tune, and there is no paint or finish.
Gene,
I would like to build an 8 or 10 string at some point! I can build these custom for any scale length, string spacing, pickup(s), and volume/tone options.
Cheers,
Jon
The stainless steel works well so these instruments have lots of sustain, stay in tune, and there is no paint or finish.
Gene,
I would like to build an 8 or 10 string at some point! I can build these custom for any scale length, string spacing, pickup(s), and volume/tone options.
Cheers,
Jon
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Hi Jon, thanks for the info, I'll have to decide what exactly I want for those parameters, scale, string spacing, pickup.
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It sounds a little brighter without a tone pot. I like to wire humbuckers and P90 pickups with just a volume control or sometimes straight to the output jack and put a volume pedal on the floor. This setup is simple and I'll just make tone adjustments on the amp or with an equalizer pedal.
It sounds a little brighter without a tone pot. I like to wire humbuckers and P90 pickups with just a volume control or sometimes straight to the output jack and put a volume pedal on the floor. This setup is simple and I'll just make tone adjustments on the amp or with an equalizer pedal.
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left-handed baritone
This is a 28" scale left-handed baritone steel I finished for a friend last week.
It weighed in at 7 lb. 11 oz.
I tuned it to low C6 and recorded a sound sample:
https://steelrailguitars.com/
Looking forward to hearing the music my friend will make with this
It weighed in at 7 lb. 11 oz.
I tuned it to low C6 and recorded a sound sample:
https://steelrailguitars.com/
Looking forward to hearing the music my friend will make with this