The Steel Guitar Forum

Can anyone ID this old lap steel. My dad gave me this in 1964. I messed around with this for a while. I stripped the finish from the top. I wish I hadn't done that. About 15 years ago I gave it to a luthier friend. Today I got it back and plan to give it a face lift and electronic restoration for the purpose of playing it.

It could be an Electromuse. The bridge design looks identical to an Electromuse I have. The body is different. It is probably and earlier version than mine.

Jack

It's an Electromuse, probably 1940s or 1950s.

The bridgeplate is shaped like an Electromuse, but that's where the similarity ends. Different body, different headstock, different pickup. The Electromuse pickup looked different and said "Eye-Beam" on it. It's possible that this is an early or late version of an Electromuse, but I've seen a lot of E'muse and I owned one (unfortunately) and they all had a "canoe paddle" shaped body. If you Google Electromuse Lap and click on Images you'll see a number of them. I read somewhere that the Electromuse lap steel was offered as a kit guitar, owner assembled, and they were given away as prizes... send in a number of boxtops from a certain product and they would send you a kit. The one I had was an absolute piece of junk. Very little sustain, and weak output. I took it out on a gig once and made a fool of myself (more so than usual)!

Did a Bing search and found this which looks similar.

http://www.gbase.com/gear/electromuse-l ... -1948-blue

Yes, I've never seen that version before. Just seen the 'canoe paddle' version.