Its full of scraps, offcuts and leftover parts from the years of amateur engineering projects.
I grabbed a couple of pieces of timber that were leftover from a kitchen Island that I built and glued them together into a vaguely laps steel shaped block. Then I left it to sit and gather dust for many months.
This past weekend I decided to revisit the project.
I had a handful of guitar bits that seemed suitable.
- A humbucker from a Gretsch that I modified for a friend with a sustainer pickup.
- The original bridge from my Bass VI.
- One 6 on a plate set of tuners that were intended for a 12 string but would not fit.
- Aluminium scrap for the tailpiece
- A string tree from another (failed) attempt at a lap steel
- 1x Ikea spanner
Mount the hardware and deal with a few buzzing spots
(the bridge wasn't the best choice).
Its nowhere near finished, but I can go from open Dm to open D just by pressing down on the bent spanner, which in turn presses on the 3rd string. It actually sounds really nice, but needs to be stripped down again for a few small mods and of course a paint job.
The tuners work, but they aren't very good and the position is not ergonomic when it comes to tuning, but beggars can't be choosers, and I can't really play more than I, IV, V at the moment.
