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Topic: Lap steel Hollowbody |
Bob Reani
From:
Como - Italy
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Posted 3 Sep 2008 6:53 am |
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Hello everybody, I'm Bob and I'm new here.
I live in Italy and build as a hobby, lap steels, weissenborns and some resos
I have a small steel guitar forum in italy, but is an instrument rare here and so there are few musicians!
In addition to me I would submit my last lap steel hollow body
style: lap steel hollowbody
scale length: 25 inches
neck & body: one piece body solid Sipo mahogany with two tonal chambers
top :Zebrawood
pickups: two custom lap steel pickups
pickup switching: three-way toggle
controls: master volume and master tone
fret board:indian rosewood
bridge: indian rosewood
saddle: bone
nut: bone
color: natural
finish: satin
string spacing: nut: 1 7/8 inches, bridge: 2 3/8 inches
number of frets: 19
machine heads: Grover
thanks and good music at all! |
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Steve Hamill
From:
California, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2008 7:07 am Welcome!
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| Glad you joined us. Thats K Bella! |
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Fred Kinbom
From:
Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2008 9:32 am
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That is a beauty. How does it sound? I had been hearing for awhile that hollow body lapsteels had a tendency to feedback. I heard later that the problem had been solved. But it's all hearsay. I've never owned a hollow body or heard one played.
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Amor vincit omnia |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2008 9:58 am
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ciao. beautiful guitar, it looks well crafted.
having friends living in Italy, yes, I agree, lap steels are very rare there.
I really enjoy the sound of hollowbody lap steels. I made one, not as nice as yours. I must make another since my best friend took the first.
spero fotographica ,per favore. |
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Sep 2008 9:39 am
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Thats a beauty Bob, nice job 
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| I had been hearing for awhile that hollow body lapsteels had a tendency to feedback |
Full hollow body instruments can be prone to feedback, but judging from Bobs description, I think it is just chambered and not fully hollow.
Chambered guitars generally have solid wood under the bridge and pickup so they are not so prone to feedback like a full hollow build.
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Some misc pics of my hand crafted steels
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Bob Reani
From:
Como - Italy
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Posted 5 Sep 2008 5:44 am
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Thanks guys on youtube you can listen it!
This hollow body has a solid wood under the bridge and pick up... and so I limit feedback!
slidinbob |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 9 Sep 2008 9:43 pm
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| That is quite beautiful! I love the way it mixes the grace of the weissenborn design aesthetic and the styling of the more current Asher-esque guitars. I am really impressed! |
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Carroll Hale
From:
EastTexas, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2008 9:25 am
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looks like you may be a "great woodworker" and a luthier......nice piece of work.....and I bet it sounds as good as it looks....
record something as mp3...let us listen..
good job
from the piney woods of east texas.
ch |
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Richard Shatz
From:
St. Louis
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Posted 10 Sep 2008 4:40 pm
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| Quanto? |
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Bob Reani
From:
Como - Italy
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Posted 10 Sep 2008 11:35 pm
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| Richard Shatz wrote: |
| Quanto? |
 ...the cheapest one starts from 840$
thanks  |
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