Homemade Custom Double-neck Lap Steel Guitar with Legs - No Pedal 8-String Necks

Check out this neat old steel!

For lack of a better term, we've been calling this one a double-neck lap steel with legs. This one was handmade by an old gentleman in Kansas sometime in the 1980's. It's a little bit crude, but you can tell his heart was in it. The body is carved from wood and has what appears to be pre-manufactured fretboards. The tuners are cheaper economy tuners, but they work. Decorative rhinestones have been attached to the fret markers, and a custom name plate that says Dick Harper is double-sided taped between the necks. We don't know if Mr. Harper built it, or just played or owned it at some point. Maybe you need a new stage name and can just leave it on there and become Dick Harper, if you want. The legs are just card table legs that can unscrew for storage or transport.  Positioning them just right will take a few tries, and it's still a bit wobbly if you really get to playing hard. A simple spreader bar at the base of the legs, like on a pedal steel, would go a long way towards making the whole thing stiffer. There is a master volume for each neck, a toggle switch to select necks, and a tone control. The switch and volume controls work as they should but the tone control seems more like a bright switch and doesn't make much of a difference. We have one neck tuned in open E Major and the other in E9, but this could be easily changed to whatever you prefer. It's a fun steel to play, with a funky folk-art aesthetic. If we were to gig with it regularly, we would upgrade the legs or work out a solution to make them stiffer. The next upgrades would be the pickups and the tuners. It's usable as-is, and definitely one-of-a-kind, but it is homemade and built on a budget!