New guitar time!

[Chipps]

Having had a very fine, but cheap lap steel from this very forum, and discovered a liking for the instrument, I found myself in California last month and popped into Sylvan Music in Santa Cruz, just to see what was new. It's a great shop and there were four or five old lap steels on display. This one didn't have a price, so I had a go anyway and talked myself into buying it.



So far it's been fantastic. Came with a case, a Bakelite tone bar and that authentic smell. I reckon it's early '50s.

[Chipps]

Forgot to add, it's original apart from the tuners, which had disintegrated. These chrome ones were OK, but stiff where they'd been knocked about, so I've just got some white-button Klusons (three on a strip) that I've added. Looks the part now.

[Tony Russell Davis]

A Harmony H-5: "Tone Emphasizer" (P13) pickup, plastic fretboard. Most probably made in 1951; so nearly as old as me
Regards, Tony.

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

My "New" guitar should be here by next weekend ..... its a Fender triple 1954 ish But as a pedal player I do not yet feel qualified to join the plank players club Give me a week or two to get my head around it.... plus some help from Baz...