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 (D format) or E minor (Gm format). You can hear it on some YouTube videos and on "The Jolly Baker...", "Dusk Dawn", "Back Pocket Horn" and other recordings.
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. Good examples of what it can sound like are "Quit My Job" (neck pickup) and "My Retreat" (Supro-style pickup) on the "Quit My Job EP".
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 (it's art-deco design was apparently inspired by the Empire State Building), and it sounds amazing!
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".
Great sounding and looking console lap steel from 1939. Like the National New Yorker, something of an art-deco masterpiece. The pickup is possibly the first-ever humbucker (a couple of decades before Gibson).
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.
Lovely Gibson archtop with a P-90 pickup. Sounds really punchy as an acoustic and lush plugged in.
Brueko No. 9 tenor ukulele. A really nice little instrument, made in Germany from solid mahogany.
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.