Recording King’s affordably-priced Humbucker Lap Steel promises “cranked-up lead tones and soaring clean lines”

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Recording King has introduced the Humbucker Lap Steel guitar, sporting a solid mahogany body with a string-through design and a 23.5-inch scale.

Other features include a pearloid fretboard, bone nut and metal button tuners.

The single humbucker, meanwhile, is designed to “take your tone from clean to crunch” – for proof, check out the accompanying video, which includes an impressive AC/DC jam – and is adjusted via single volume and tone controls.

The Humbucker Lap Steel comes in a traditional sunburst finish and is offered for $229.99.

For more information, head to Recording King.

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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