Fender Lap Steel Pickup

Making its debut in 1950 the mass produced six string with just a single cutaway pine body bolt on maple neck and a lone repurposed lap steel pickup in the bridge position changed the guitar world forever.

Fender lap steel pickup.

Ordered another wound to 7 5k for the second neck. Beautiful 1959 fender champion lap steel. Great quality at a great price. 7 99 add to cart.

Plays and sounds great. All case latches work. Stock pickup in my fender 1000 pedal steel. Comes with original tweed hard case cleaning cloth key and cable.

This pickup is a bit less twangy than the usual tele lead pickup and will offer you a clean chimey tone but with enough power in the low end for the pickup to not sound harsh. Can be glued back on. It sounds more like a stringmaster. Antiquity for 1950 fender lap steel in the antiquity series of pickups we have a dedicated lapsteel pickup too.

Nut n 2c chrome lap steel raised nut. Lap steel 15 3 k 0hms 43awg al 3 slugs 3 4 tall handwound sonic clean tone wax potted to remove unwanted feedback pick up comes shielded with coil tape. There are three types of lap steel guitars. Finally the electric lap steel with pickups which is the hawaiian type sound we are all familiar with.

There is the common instrument we all recognize that sits on your lap. Fender strat vintage ri pickups. Nut n 2bk black 6 string lap steel style guitar raised nut w screws 47mm. Fender champion lap steel 1959 white.

Also there is the dobro which has a larger square neck and a cone to increase volume. Late 40 s early 50 s fender woody lap steel. There have been countless solid body electric guitar designs over the years but only one was first.