A custom Sitka Spruce/Black Walnut Weissenborn built by Rance White in North Carolina, USA. A lovely guitar! My main gigging lap steel, and I've played it on many recordings ("Isolation Song", "Nattlunk", "Elephant Pace" and many others). It lives in G minor tuning.
An amazing baritone Weissenborn made by Paddy Burgin in Wellington, New Zealand. It is made of Sapele and very deep, and deep is its sound! It is a baritone version of the two Burgin Weissenborns played by David Lindley. The scale length on this baritone is 27.4" and I keep it tuned to either B flat (D format) or E flat minor (Gm format). You can hear it on some YouTube videos and on "The Jolly Baker..." and "Dusk Dawn" on my album.
A wonderful lap steel built by Jason DuMont in Bristol, Connecticut, USA. Equipped with two Lollar Charlie Christian blade pickups. Stunning craftsmanship!
Another amazing Lap King Rodeo, black, with a Lollar Supro-style pickup and a Lollar Imperial humbucker. A very versatile guitar.
A fantastic lap steel. This model has three pickups - one at the bridge and two concealed under the fretboard. Probably the first ever multi-pickup electric guitar model. The most beautiful of all the vintage lap steel models in my opinion, and it sounds amazing! You can hear it on several of my YouTube videos and on the tune "Dusk Dawn" on my album.
Yes, another one. :-) Liking the other three-pickup one so much, I wondered if they all sounded like that, and then this one came up at a bargain price... It did not work at all at first, but once it was fixed (thanks Basil!) is sounded fantastic, and different than the other one. I played the electric part on the instrumental "Tier" on this wonderful art-deco guitar.
My first lap steel, a beautiful National New Yorker from 1947. The unpainted brass fretboard is quite rare, I think. I played this guitar on "New Yorker Impro" on my album, through a T-Rex Tremster tremolo pedal and a Fender Blues Junior amp.
My first acoustic lap steel, bought for $81 on eBay. Quite difficult to play with the slack strings (don't want to put too much tension on it) and warped neck, but it sounds lovely - earthy and gritty and warm.
Not a lap steel but a long-time companion. Made in Brazil. The top is a bit warped, it has a few cracks, but it is a very comfortable guitar to play.
A great-sounding steel-bodied single cone resonator guitar. Set up by Mike Lewis at Fine Resophonic to sound its best. Equipped with a Barcus-Berry "Hi-Tek" magnetic pickup.