![]() ![]() ![]() Lollar Supro style pickups are a limited production, under license of Supro USA. Supro®, and the “Supro Lightning Bolt design” are registered trademarks of Zinky Electronics, LLC. To learn more about the Lollar Supro® lap steel pickup, visit our web site. The pickup is mounted plenty solid this way. The only snag was only two of the 4 mounting screws for the pickup actually bit into wood – the two mounting screws closest to the fingerboard are machine screws which I made two threaded holes in the pickgaurd for them to tighten up against because the screws were located over the route for the original pickup which was quite deep. But I have the tools to do it, so I went ahead and put some lipstick on the pig – so to speak. For slanting the bar (a sort of advanced technique) wider string spacing makes it easier to play in tune and the wider string spacing makes it easier to bend strings behind the bar to get pedal steel type sounds. Wider string spacing makes bar slants and finger pickup much easier. These lap steels originally come with a narrower spaced nut and bridge (the bridge is a standard guitar bridge which is too narrow). The quality of lap steels being made today by these small businesses can not be equaled or surpassed by these cheap import models and they often exceed the quality of the finest vintage instruments. If you can’t do this work yourself I suggest patronizing one of the many fine lap steel builders working in the USA today many of which offer my pickups as standard fare and are listed on my website. These cheap little lap steels make a useable rig if you take the time to set them up right and put a good pickup and electronics in them. The most important thing I did was I replaced the nut and bridge and I converted the guitars to a string through body like an old Telecaster. I got these from Musician’s Friend for around $80 each including a heavy duty soft shell case, the oldest one I have was labeled “Artisan” and it came with no legs but at any rate I extensively modified the guitars. ![]()
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