Recommend a Lap Steel

[monark]

either new or something that's not too hard to find used... for a christmas present. hopefully not super $$ since I'll be giving it to someone who doesn't know how to play it (yet).

thanks!

[the older brother]

This Gretch looks like a killer to me.

[monark]

reading some of the reviews on musiciansfriend and zzzounds or whatever, the Gretsch gets some low marks for QC - I think I will probably either go with a Chandler:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=518751

or a Morrell:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=511861

[sonik]

lap steels are one of the last affordable vintage guitar things around...so I say go vintage!  I have a 50's Kay lap steel that sounds great; got it for less than the new Gretsch lap steel goes for.

[Stratelejazzuar]

reading some of the reviews on musiciansfriend and zzzounds or whatever, the Gretsch gets some low marks for QC - I think I will probably either go with a Chandler:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=518751

or a Morrell:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=511861

i think i read somewhere that joe perry of aerosmith uses chandler lap steels. for the song rag doll, i'm pretty sure. check out live vids of the song on youtube maybe? 

[glimmertwin]

lap steels are one of the last affordable vintage guitar things around...so I say go vintage!  I have a 50's Kay lap steel that sounds great; got it for less than the new Gretsch lap steel goes for.

...you can still get those old fender lap steels for reasonable prices(relative to other vintage fenders) and they have blackguard pickups on them(less the backplate).

[RumorsOFsurF]

I would give a nut (or two) for this vintage Fender....

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[Stereordinary]

Wow, that thing has pickup claws just like a Jaguar!

[fullerplast]

OK... kick my ass for a man, but:

I found a Fender pedal steel in a flea market (single neck) with klusons, tele knobs, and 2 duo-sonic pickups... complete with tweed case... for $125 and didn't buy it. And I knew better at the time too, its not like I didn't realize. I offered $75 and she wouldn't take it. I went back the next week and it wasn't there.

And it had an old univox ss amp with it too....   

[the older brother]

I would give a nut (or two) for this vintage Fender....

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I was about to buy one of those for about fifteen years ago (a guitarshop on Götgatan, Stockholm - the best guitarshopping street in the world in the early nineties IMO) - I remember the claw pup and the sunburst. They wanted about $500, wich was the reason i didn't buy it then - and that price would have the opposite effect today, I guess  )

[jasonwalston]

if it were me i would go for an old magnatone/fender. wanted a gibson br-9 for a while too...

[Stereordinary]

I'm gonna recommend Supro/Airline.  Just 'cuz.

[monark]

If I had time to wait around for a good deal on a vintage Supro to pop up I totally would, but I'd like to give this as a mid-december bday present or xmas present, so I think I'm going to get a new one...

[glimmertwin]

if it were me i would go for an old magnatone/fender. wanted a gibson br-9 for a while too...

...Nels Cline uses a BR-9.

[StevenO]

Nelsy also uses a bunch of Nationals...

He makes them sound gooooooooood.