Lap Steel slide guitars at Gladesville Guitar Factory

Lap Steel Guitars

The popularity of the Lap Steel guitar is exploding lately with officianados such as John Butler & Ben Harper highlighting this versatile instrument. Played with a slide, it is used in everything from Country, Hawaiian, Blues and Rock to grunge music.
As well as a good variety of lap steel guitars, Gladesville Guitar Factory stock a comprehensive range of specialist accessories including slides, steels, finger and thumb picks, books DVD's and strings

Prices are negotiable - Worldwide delivery

Prices listed are the supplier's recommended retail in Australian dollars.
We use this as a guide to calculate discount and trade-in margins.

Contact us on +61- 2- 98172173 for a price.

Page up to date on May 17, 2012

Weissenborn-Style slide guitars

Originally conceived for Hawaiian slide playing, these amazing sounding instruments are becoming increasingly popular courtesy of slide players like Dave Lindley, Ben Harper, Jerry Douglas and Bob Brozman. This style of slide guitar has a hollow, square neck and high action specifically for slide playing in the lap position. The sound is very resonant and comparable to a steel bodied guitar but the sound is like a "larger than life" acoustic. A gorgeous sound!

Sarcher Amos Weissenborn-style $2600

Australian made. All solid tinted Tasmanian Blackwood. This has a full, loud tone with loads of character. Beautifully detailed and exceptional value for a handcrafted guitar

Gold Tone "Weissenborn" W-SM slide guitar

Gold Tone W-SM Weissenborn-style $1695

Solid mahogany top, back and sides with rosewood fingerboard and ebony bridge. Bone nut and saddle. Including Arched Top Hardshell case.

Electric Lap Steels

Square necked with a high action for slide playing in the lap position.

SX USLS1NA Lap Steel $399

Solid mahogany neck through body. Rosewood fingerboard. Single coil pickup. Volume, tone control. Ours has a natural mahogany satin finish. Case included.

Martinez MLS-2JN Lap Steel $399

Solid alder body and neck. Rosewood fingerboard and bridge, humbucker pickup with volume and tone control. Heavy duty gig bag included

Gretsch Lap Steel Guitar $649

Synchromatic by Gretsch. Sparkle finish

Gretsch Lap Steel Guitar $749

Synchromatic by Gretsch. Sunburst finish

Fender FS-52 Lap Steel $999

Ash body, chrome hardware and a Standard Strat Single-Coil Pickup with Flat Pole Pieces

Gold Tone LS-6 Lap Steel $1095

Back in the 50's when Lap Steels were in their hey day, the Oahu Tonemaster® was the lap of choice among professionals. Our LS is a vintage replica of this famous instrument. Our pick up and hardware are identical to the originals. We have even sold these replacement parts to Tone Master owners. It includes a bone nut, square-covered style tuners, ash tray cover, and tobacco brown two-tone finish. We have dedicated TKL hardshell case which is form fitted.