The Best Lap Guitars 2025

1. Recording King - RG-31 Lap Steel Guitar - Natural

The Recording King Lap Steel guitar is made of solid mahogany and the string-through-body design makes for full, powerful sustain. A single Alnico P-90 pickup gives it excellent tone. The open geared tuners make staying in tune a breeze and offer classic looks with modern reliability. The single volume and tone controls allow players to control the tonal texture from classic country lines to searing blues licks.

Features: Solid Mahogany Body Single P-90 Pickup Volume and Tone controls Open Geared Tuners String-Through-Body Design Pearloid Fret Markers Matte Natural Finish

2. CB Gitty Cigar Box Pure and Simple 3-String Slide Guitar Kit, Natural

This kit builds the traditional "stick on top" style of cigar box guitar, in the style of mountain dulcimers where the neck rests on top of the box instead of running through it. The result is a nice loud CBG tuned with the popular "Open G" tuning of G D G, which is what most of the YouTube how-to-play video presenters use. The string sizes we use are .042" wound (low G), .012" plain steel (high D), .009" plain steel (high G).

The "Pure Simple" CB Gitty 3 string fretless slide guitar kit assembles easily using only a few screwdrivers and a small hammer Everything included: All parts, and strings, even the slide Fingerboard is fretless, but marked for easy play Be playing the Blues within an hour

3. Chromaharp P206 Autoharp/Zither/Lap Harp/Chordharp L Tuning Hammer Tuner Wrench

Tuning wrench, suitable for all autoharps.

Mahogany neck Rosewood Fingerboard 16" fingerboard radius 25 1/2 " Scale 1 11/16 " nut width

4. Imperial Royal Hawaiian Koa Kani Extra Deep Weissenborn Style Lap Steel Guitar

California's Imperial Valley Guitars has been at the forefront of today's revived Weissenborn Hawaiian guitar movement, with their numerous innovations being widely copied on several continents. This is a new model that Imperial released this year. It's the all Koa version of their Royal Hawaiian series called the Koa Kani. The Royal Hawaiian Koa Kani has all the deluxe features of Imperial's other Limited Editions and adds to that all hand selected Hawaiian Koa for top, neck, back and sides. The Koa Kani comes with the Fishman Sonicore pickup and their Presys+ preamp system. This system features 4 bands of EQ as well as a notch filter for feedback busting and a phase switch, another tonal variable that is useful for adding some extra fullness at low volumes. The + part of Presys+ is the built-in tuner, always handy to have, but especially if you're going to be changing tunings in the middle of a set. As with Imperial's other limited editions, the Royal Hawaiian Koa Kani comes with everything they've got, including the Fishman system and the custom fit extra deep hard shell case. Features: • Outstanding fit and finish from one of California's finest workshops • Excellent authentic Weissenborn Hawaiian tone "I just received the Imperial Weissenborn. It's really a beautiful guitar, nice sound, good workmanship. So thank you again." "I love my Imperial Hawaiian slide to little bits!" "I love the new guitar - sounds and plays great. Again, I LOVE the guitar."

California's Imperial Valley Guitars has been at the forefront of today's revived Weissenborn Hawaiian guitar movement, with their numerous innovations being widely copied on several continents. This is a new model that Imperial released this year. It's the all Koa version of their Royal Hawaiian series called the Koa Kani. The Royal Hawaiian Koa Kani has all the deluxe features of Imperial's other Limited Editions and adds to that all hand selected Hawaiian Koa for top, neck, back and sides. The Koa Kani comes with the Fishman Sonicore pickup and their Presys+ preamp system. This system features 4 bands of EQ as well as a notch filter for feedback busting and a phase switch, another tonal variable that is useful for adding some extra fullness at low volumes. The + part of Presys+ is the built-in tuner, always handy to have, but especially if you're going to be changing tunings in the middle of a set. As with Imperial's other limited editions, the Royal Hawaiian Koa Kani comes with everything they've got, including the Fishman system and the custom fit extra deep hard shell case. Features: • Outstanding fit and finish from one of California's finest workshops • Excellent authentic Weissenborn Hawaiian tone "I just received the Imperial Weissenborn. It's really a beautiful guitar, nice sound, good workmanship. So thank you again." "I love my Imperial Hawaiian slide to little bits!" "I love the new guitar - sounds and plays great. Again, I LOVE the guitar."

5. Luna Lap Steel Mahogany Hawaiian Electric

Luna's electric lap steel features the same distinctive abalone fret markers as our High Tide series ukuleles. A full moon at the first fret tugs at the waves that grace the rosewood fingerboards.

Luna Lap Steel Mahogany Hawaiian Electric: Luna's electric lap steel features the same distinctive abalone fret markers as the High Tide series ukuleles A full moon at the first fret tugs at the waves that grace the rosewood fingerboards

6. Luna Lap Steel Weissenborn Style Hawaiian Mahogany

Luna's Weissenborn-style select acoustic lap steel features the same distinctive abalone fret markers as their High Tide Series ukuleles. A full moon at the first fret tugs at the waves that grace the rosewood fingerboards. Acoustic lap-style guitars first emerged in Hawaii in the 1890s, where players raised the action of their standard guitars, laid them flat on their laps and learned to play melodies with a metal bar sliding along the strings. Los Angeles-based luthier Hermann Weissenborn refined the concept in the 1920s. Electric lap steels were developed in response for the desire for louder volume.

Features: Luna's Weissenborn-style select acoustic lap steel features the same distinctive abalone fret markers as their High Tide Series ukuleles A full moon at the first fret tugs at the waves that grace the rosewood fingerboards Acoustic lap-style guitars first emerged in Hawaii in the 1890s, where players raised the action of their standard guitars, laid them flat on their laps, and learned to play melodies with a metal bar sliding along the strings Los Angeles-based luthier Hermann Weissenborn refined the concept in the 1920s Electric lap steels were developed in response for the desire for louder volume

7. Recording King RG-32-SN Lap Steel - Guitar - electric - mahogany - gloss sunburst

Recording King RG-32-SN Lap Steel - guitar - electric

An overwound EMG-designed P-90 Alnico pickup, produces lap steel sound in a comfortable, playable string-through mahogany body

8. Vorson SL 100E Straight Lap Steel Guitar Package, Natural

The Vorson SL-100E is a fully loaded, high-output lap steel featuring the straight line design that many pros prefer. The 100E has two FP-90 pickups, one in the upper position and one at the bridge, controlled by a three-way toggle switch located in front of the bridge for fast live switching. Vorson's VSY-01 active electronics deliver exceptionally clear, brilliant tone and the SL-100E sounds great clean or connected to an overdrive/distortion effect for soloing. The VSY-01 active system has an integrated on/off output jack switch to preserve battery life when unplugged.

Vorson SL 100E Straight Lap Steel Guitar Package, Natural: Fully loaded, high-output lap steel Straight line design 2 FP-90 pickups, 1 in the upper position and 1 at the bridge 3-way toggle switch located in front of the bridge for fast live switching Exceptionally clear, brilliant tone Sounds great clean or connected to an overdrive/distortion effect for soloing Integrated on/off output jack switch preserves battery life when unplugged Close grained, all natural mahogany body for superior tone and stability Rosewood fretboard with bar inlays All-chrome hardware Die-cast tuning machines Ships in a deluxe padded gig bag with cable and F-006 ToneBar

9. Gold Tone LS-6 Lap Steel Guitar Tobacco Sunburst

Appealing to the discerning lap steel player and collector alike, the Gold Tone LS-6 offers an outstanding vintage replica of legendary Oahu Tonemaster -- the lap steel of choice among professional players back in the 1950s. With all of the unmistakable sonic and visual character that made the original an instant classic , the LS-6 sports a traditional tobacco brown two-tone finish over mahogany back & sides, and comes equipped with a soapbar pickup that's identical to the original for that classic lap steel tone. The LS-6 showcases a set of Kluson-style tuners, an ashtray palm cover and a bone nut just as the original. Other features include a maple neck , a rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays and ABS white binding for the body and neck. Case not included. Get your Gold Tone LS-6 6-String Lap Steel Guitar today at the guaranteed lowest price from Sam Ash Direct with our 45-day return and 60-day price protection policy. Disclaimer: The LS-6 is setup for Open D Tuning (DADF#AD). Other popular tunings such as C6 will require lighter string gauges.

Mahogany Back and Sides with Tobacco Brown 2-Tone Finish 25"-Scale Maple Neck and Rosewood Fingerboard with Dot Inlays Gold Tone LS-6 6-String Lap Steel Guitar

10. Gold Tone LS-8 8-String Lap Steel Guitar Vintage Sunburst

Appealing to the discerning lap steel player and collector alike, the Gold Tone LS-8 offers an outstanding vintage replica of legendary Oahu Tonemaster -- the lap steel of choice among professional players back in the 1950s. With all of the unmistakable sonic and visual character that made the original an instant classic , the LS-8 sports a traditional tobacco brown two-tone finish over mahogany back & sides, and comes equipped with a soapbar pickup that's identical to the original for that classic lap steel tone. The LS-8 showcases a set of Kluson-style tuners, an ashtray palm cover and a bone nut just as the original. Other features include a maple neck , a rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays and ABS white binding for the body and neck. Case not included. Get your Gold Tone LS-8 8-String Lap Steel Guitar today at the guaranteed lowest price from Sam Ash Direct with our 45-day return and 60-day price protection policy. Disclaimer: The LS-8 is setup for F6 tuning (DFACDFAC). Other popular tunings such as C6 will require lighter string gauges.

The Gold Tone LS-8 evokes the Oahu Tonemaster, one of the most revered lap steels of the 1950s The Gold Tone version is so close to the original that owners of Oahu instruments buy LS-8 pickups and hardware from Gold Tone for use in the restoration of their prized guitars The LS-8 8-String Lap Steel Guitar is set up for F6 tuning (DFACDFAC) but other tunings can be accommodated by installing strings that are gauged for those tunings Available as left-handed model