Vorson W1 W-Style Acoustic-Electric Lap Steel Guitar
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Get your slide on with this killer lap steel! Featuring a custom FP-90 pickup and HMP II active electronics, this guitar's tone will always be on point.
Overview
The Weissenborn style lap steel is the quintessential traditional Hawaiian guitar and since its introduction in the early 1930's is the rarest of all lap steel designs. Vorson's master luthiers were tasked with keeping to the key design features of the Weissenborn but using modern manufacturing methods to guarantee a deeply resonant and bell-like acoustic quality with unsurpassed tuning and structural integrity.
The most distinctive feature of the Weissenborn design is the acoustic body chamber that runs all the way up the neck to allow for maximum overtones, sustain, and resonance. The superior acoustic quality of the W-1 is captured by the custom FP-90 pickup and HMP II active electronics and sounds great for traditional lap steel compositions and scorched stage soloing through a wah pedal and overdrive. The W-1 features a spruce top, sapele back and sides, full binding and ships complete with a premium padded bag, tone bar, and cable.
The most distinctive feature of the Weissenborn design is the acoustic body chamber that runs all the way up the neck to allow for maximum overtones, sustain, and resonance. The superior acoustic quality of the W-1 is captured by the custom FP-90 pickup and HMP II active electronics and sounds great for traditional lap steel compositions and scorched stage soloing through a wah pedal and overdrive. The W-1 features a spruce top, sapele back and sides, full binding and ships complete with a premium padded bag, tone bar, and cable.
Specs
- Model: Vorson W-1
- Style: 6 string Weissenborn Style Lap Steel
- Body: Spruce top, Sapele back and sides
- Frets: 19
- Finger board: Rose wood
- Pickup: FP-90
- String: SIT 015,018,024,038,042,058
- Tuning: D
- Color: Natural
- Control system: HMP II Active Vol-T/B
- Style: 6 string Weissenborn Style Lap Steel
- Body: Spruce top, Sapele back and sides
- Frets: 19
- Finger board: Rose wood
- Pickup: FP-90
- String: SIT 015,018,024,038,042,058
- Tuning: D
- Color: Natural
- Control system: HMP II Active Vol-T/B
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars.
(1 ratings)
Submitted November 19, 2015 by Rajendra C
"Vorson W-1 Guitar"
It's a really very responsive guitar with balance tone. I play Indian ragas on this guitar as well as blues. Superb instrument in the price.
Musical Background:
35 years in music industry worked as a music composer, arranger and worked as electronics musician. Now playing Indian classical
Musical Style:
Indian classical music and blues.
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