The British Steelies Society

i know we have a section already but i thought we could use the "lap steel" section for lap steel pics? make sense?

great idea, lets see them guys!

Alan Cook must be up for this for one and coolsteel he is selling one! that should kick us off!as for basil he probably has half a dozen!

Early '60s Valcos: a red Supro Studio Four and a Kay K155...

Here's my de-pedalled MultiKord twin 8 from mid 1950's (?). I haven't a clue why anyone would even think to take off the pedals and then SAW off the changer end - but they did! As it is, it was cheap for a console D-8, sounds good and plays well. If you aren't familiar with this style (fairly common for the era) the tuners are under the covers at the pickup end. The changer mechanism should have been under similar covers at the nut end and each pedal would have changed the whole tuning to a different one on one neck rather than the way we pedal notes in today so, you pushed a pedal then proceeded to play non-pedal style in a new tuning and so on.

Here's another lap steel. My seven string Regal. The origin has been mentioned on the forum before, but for new people - it's a far eastern resonator guitar fitted with a seventh string, plus a Quarterman cone and set-up by Paul Beard. I bought it and when it arrived in UK the extra tuner was sticking out at the middle of the top of the head! Because the peg was too short to go right through, the tuner body was beautifully sunk into a custom rout.

Equally beautifully (?) I filled the rout (see pic), filled the barrel holes on one side, re-drilled for half a mandolin set and ended up with four on one side of the head. Oh, and I covered the hole at the front of the head with a plastic plate inscribed "Regal". Tuned to a G6th (high bass G with the middle string an E) I can use standard G dobro sets with an additional 32w/34w single.

Crowbear.. VERY Nice EH-100 (Late 1937) and EH-150 (1938)
I can get you original knobs for the EH-100 if you want.. HERE

bob adams wrote:as for basil he probably has half a dozen!

More like a Baker's Dozen, and a few pedal steels and regular guitars just to keep them all company..
I promise I'll post some pictures, but it will have to be after this weekend filming in Ibiza for a music video of Bob's new album, and then Pat and I are playing at the Tate Modern as part of the Gauguin exhibition that's on there (We're there on Wednesday 13th) I REALLY NEED to practise before that show.. So after that.. I promise I'll post a few pictures of some of the collection.