Bought this Lap Steel as I needed to record some proper slide guitar. At £95 (plus £10 shipping to the Highlands of Scotland) I wasn’t expecting miracles. There is a cheaper one without a stand, but I really don’t have any worktop space in my home studio, so I went for the one with the stand. It means it is ready to go when I need to use it, without having to move things out of the way. Comes with a steel slide in a box, the aforementioned stand and a gig bag for the Lap Steel and a bag for the legs. These aren’t great, but will keep your stuff from getting scratched during transport.
Took it out of the boxes (very well packaged for transport), tuned it up and played along with a backing track. Now considering that this is less than £100/€100/$100, it was surprisingly good. The only let down with the entire experience was the strings, with the weight of my hand and the bar, it was putting the strings slightly higher than the “fretted” note. They are too thin, but as these are just on it to make it playable, that is not a bad point against the Lap Steel. With a change of strings to a much heavier gauge this will be much better. Sound wise, again let down by the strings, but the pickup seems reasonable, but in the future I will be putting in higher quality electrics.
Overall, this is a nice instrument, and would highly recommend this to anyone wanting to get into, or just curious about, Lap Steel guitar. At this price, what is stopping you…