ELECTRICIZED

Rickenbacker Model 100 Silver Hawaiian

1937-1943

There were two versions of the model 100 lap steel guitar. The Silver Hawaiian (pictured) was chromed and was one of the early models while the other one was wooden lap steel from the fifties.For sale

c 1950 Rickenbacker DC-16 Double Eight Strings Lap Steel guitar.

Picture Idaho during the sixties, more specifically a ranchers town called Sweet. And in this town, a man, Walt Smith, eager to give lap-steel lovers as much freedom as then popular rock icons. That’s for that very reason that this 1965 Mosrite Melobar was built (with the expert help of Semie Mosrite.) The Melobar was arguably the first lap steel that could be played standing up.

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The Golden Age Of Fender

From left to right: 1945 K&F lap steel in grey crinkle finish, 1946 K&F in mahogany, 1946 K&F in maple, 1947 Fender Deluxe in walnut.

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The first Czechoslovakian “commercial” production by Drevokov/CSHN/Jolana: The very unique 1954 Resonet Akord lap steel.

A Weissenborn electric lap steel

Rickenbacker Model A-22

1931

This is the very first electric guitar. A 1931 rickenbacker lap-steel Model A-22 a.k.a “The Frying pan”.