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GoldTone LS-8 8-String Lap Steel
Serial Number Varies; this one is 21110567, made in China. Pricing $639 CDN with hardshell case. Neck Mahogany neck with bound rosewood fingerboard. 25″ (63.5 cm)scale, 2 3/8″ (6.03 cm)nut width. Frets 20 frets that will never, ever wear out. Body Mahogany body with top and back binding; top is also purfled. Finish Tobacco sunburst [...]
Gretsch Electromatic Lap Steel
Serial Number Varies, this is CYG11030163, Made in China. Pricing $350 CND, without case. Neck 22.5″ (57.15 cm)scale length, nut width is 1.875″ (47.6 mm) Frets No frets on a lap steel, but this instrument uses a plastic marker board with high visibility. Many lap steels, including this one, use shapes to indicate the ‘fret’ [...]
Rayco Weissenborn Style Hawaiian Guitar: Master Grade Koa
Master Luthiers Mark Thibeault and Jason Friesen have done it again with another of their magnificent Weissenborn-style beauties ! Spectacular AAA Koa wood throughout, huge tone and sustain and feather light construction. Every time I pick this up I am amazed at how light weight these Rayco guitars are. When played, the guitar feels alive. [...]
Michael Dunn Weissenbourn Hawaiian Guitars
At the January Namm show, 2008 I bumped into Michael Dunn at the National Resophonic booth as he finished playing a set with Bob Brozman. It occurred to me to ask Michael to build us another of his incredible Maccaferri style guitars. Michael said “fine…but I’m building mostly Weissenborns these days” …so I ordered one [...]
DUESENBERG Pomona 6 Lap Steel
The Pomona 6 will change the way you think of a lap steel. For the first time you can change keys with the “easy-shift” and “easy-slide” capo to any scale and zero position. The Duesenberg capo can be shifted even within a song live in a matter of seconds. The integrated Multibender provides the [...]