I made this three stringed, electric lap steel guitar from an old pool cue case I bought at an op-shop. The sound is pretty raw, which kind of suits the whole smoky, seedy pool hall feel of it. Plus, once you're done busking for money to bet on games of 8-ball, it becomes it's own case.
This whole project cost me around $60, but if you can get your hands on the guitar bits (pickup, tuning pegs, pots), it'd work out even cheaper.
This whole project cost me around $60, but if you can get your hands on the guitar bits (pickup, tuning pegs, pots), it'd work out even cheaper.
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First of all, a pool cue case. I picked this one up for $8 at an second hand shop.
You'll also need:
- a single coil pickup
- three individual guitar tuning pegs
- a couple of chunks of hardwood for the bridge and nut
- a piece of thin wood for the volume and tone mount (I used a section cut from a cigar box lid)
- input socket for a guitar lead jack
- 10k pot for volume
- primer and paint
- some sticky-backed fabric letters
You'll also need:
- a single coil pickup
- three individual guitar tuning pegs
- a couple of chunks of hardwood for the bridge and nut
- a piece of thin wood for the volume and tone mount (I used a section cut from a cigar box lid)
- input socket for a guitar lead jack
- 10k pot for volume
- primer and paint
- some sticky-backed fabric letters
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It's not as nice as this one, but will have an amp built into it when I get around to it.
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Thanks
Thanks so much for the instructable, I'd have never thought this up on my own.
I may try and build another one with a more 'polished' feel to it, as mine isn't up to the standard of yours : )
cheers!
kik
With these pedals turned on.
Distortion
Naturel overdrive
Modulation
Harmonist (octave pedal)
and a delay.
Very good instructable.
LOL! what did you do with the pool sticks? Make a slide trombone?
Your instrument made me think of the Music Man warning the people about
Pool in order to sell musical instruments
...some of the lines from the song Ya Got Trouble:
"By the presence of a pool table in your community.
Ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City."