You’ll need a tuning key if you don’t have one) 6 zither pin tuners (available from for 50cents each.Scrap wood – 1.5”x5.5”x~32” (this was just a standard 2×6 I pulled out of a construction dumpster).This project was easily accomplished over the span of a weekend while working on my other lap steel and all the millions of other things I’m usually trying to squeeze into a weekend. Problem was, I didn’t want to wait, so I started working on a primitive lap steel guitar at the same time. To make a long story short, I needed to acquire a bit more knowledge and some materials I didn’t have to build the guitar that I really wanted to build. So I started looking through a library book about electric guitar building. I wanted to use a traditional magnetic pickup rather than a piezo, but I’d never used one before, so before I could do that I had to figure out how to install one. So I went to the store, got some wood and started laying it out. Something similar to this 1960 Fender Champ. Something like a pedal steel, but with just 6 strings and a little more shape to it. I wanted one that didn’t look much like a traditional guitar. ![]() I started looking at pictures and looking for details like string spacing, and scale length. ![]() ![]() I recently got a hankering to build a lap steel guitar. HOW TO BUILD A PRIMITIVE LAP STEEL GUITAR
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