^ This LAP STEEL is listed on Reverb ^
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You can also purchase it outside of Reverb at a discounted price.
Please write me for a direct sale quote.
24" Scale Length w/24 frets.
Chambered Mahogany body and neck with a book matched Curly Maple top with Wenge and Maple center strips.
The headcap is from a Maple Burl and has a Wenge underlay.
Bison Bone nut filed to accommodate any strings.
Wenge fingerboard with Maple lines and purfling, bound in Wenge with Holly position dots.
Twin single coil pickups with custom made wooden topped bobbins and A5 magnetic pole-pieces.
The bridge coil is scatter-wound hot to 8.7kOhms and the neck/mid coil is scatter-wound to about 7.7kOhms, both with 42 gauge magnet wire. Classic 'Fender' tonality. Wax potted and copper shielded and height adjustable.
The pots are all CTS: A master Volume, a master Tone (low pass), and a Bass Roll-off (hi pass) to achieve a broad range of responsiveness.
The moon knobs are knurled brass with a brushed chrome finish.
The bridge is my own top-loading aluminum bridge with a stainless steel saddle.
The saddle slot will accept any 1/4" round material, too, so one can try switching out with brass, wood, plastic, aluminum etc to achieve different tonalities without permanently modifying anything.
The output jack is a standard Switchcraft in an Electrosocket jack cup.
It's finished in a very thin, hand-rubbed modern UV-cured resin varnish (Clean Armor) that has a satin sheen, and it looks and feels very much like Tru-Oil but offers much better scratch and dent resistance.
It is strung with GHS Emaj strings (56-13). This steel does not include a case or gig bag.
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..."The VI you built for me years ago is still one of my favorite instruments and the best VI I’ve ever touched. "
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^ This Fretless Bass has SOLD ^
34" flatsawn hard Maple neck with a Macassar Ebony fingerboard with an easily accessible two-way truss rod and a Bison Bone nut. The body is a three-piece Alder body with a subtle Ebony inlay around the pickup bobbins. Instead of a single coil pickup, I went with a pickup set of my own wind and bobbin build of classic P-pickup style, made with traditional Forbon and four large 1/4" Alnico 5 magnets in each coil, each topped with a thin veneer of Spalted Maple for some visual interest and for the bonus effect of having covered magnets (no string slap on magnets). They're wound to an individual resistance of 6.8kOhm, making them 13.6kOhm in series. They are varnished in a hard finish, wax potted, and quiet. The control cover is made of Macassar Ebony, and the knobs are nickel plated brass. The control cavity is shielded with copper foil and the pots are StewMac solid shaft CTS. The tone control uses a Mojotone Dijon .047uF cap. The output jack is a traditional Switchcraft in a nickel plated Electrosocket jack cup.
The neck at the nut is just under .9" thick and the neck thickness tapers to about 1" at the neck joint. The aluminum dot position markers go all the way through the neck and show subtly on the back/edge of the neck as well. It uses smooth and lightweight Gotoh tuning machines vs the heavier old school paddle tuners. There's a tasty scallop on the edge of the otherwise classic headstock, and my "r" logo is heat branded into the headstock. Serial # 925-1.
It is strung with light gauge, flat-wound D'Addario Chromes. The bridge is a recent Kluson reproduction plated in nickel. It includes the Gator hardshell case and an Ebony thumb/finger rest for the buyer to choose where to place on the top (if at all).
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34" flatsawn hard Maple neck with a Macassar Ebony fingerboard with an easily accessible two-way truss rod and a Bison Bone nut. The body is a three-piece Alder body with a subtle Ebony inlay around the pickup bobbins. Instead of a single coil pickup, I went with a pickup set of my own wind and bobbin build of classic P-pickup style, made with traditional Forbon and four large 1/4" Alnico 5 magnets in each coil, each topped with a thin veneer of Spalted Maple for some visual interest and for the bonus effect of having covered magnets (no string slap on magnets). They're wound to an individual resistance of 6.8kOhm, making them 13.6kOhm in series. They are varnished in a hard finish, wax potted, and quiet. The control cover is made of Macassar Ebony, and the knobs are nickel plated brass. The control cavity is shielded with copper foil and the pots are StewMac solid shaft CTS. The tone control uses a Mojotone Dijon .047uF cap. The output jack is a traditional Switchcraft in a nickel plated Electrosocket jack cup.
The neck at the nut is just under .9" thick and the neck thickness tapers to about 1" at the neck joint. The aluminum dot position markers go all the way through the neck and show subtly on the back/edge of the neck as well. It uses smooth and lightweight Gotoh tuning machines vs the heavier old school paddle tuners. There's a tasty scallop on the edge of the otherwise classic headstock, and my "r" logo is heat branded into the headstock. Serial # 925-1.
It is strung with light gauge, flat-wound D'Addario Chromes. The bridge is a recent Kluson reproduction plated in nickel. It includes the Gator hardshell case and an Ebony thumb/finger rest for the buyer to choose where to place on the top (if at all).
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