The tone pot is a little stickier and farther away to keep it from being nudged too much. I wired the new harness to suit, too, with the volume control a fast-rotating pot that's nearest the bridge and pickup for easy swells. The adjustable poles also let you dial-in balanced string output which I find a huge boon. Played clean it can get some great country chime but dug-in and pushed it'll do dirty blues and rock right away. Said new pickup is a Duncan Lil '59 and it sounds superb on this lap steel. This is specifically because he wanted to use a height-adjustable pickup in a mount that could be palm-muted without the integral pickup cover like on the earlier Champ plates. This is an earlier-'50s Champ body that came with its tuners, tuner plate, and "fretboard." The owner bought the later-style bridge/control plate and I routed the body and cut the pickguard to accept it. The rest is as per the original blog post. It can easily be restrung for 3x2 setup again, though, as the saddle and nut are slotted to accept that arrangement if desired.
That was it, though - it didn't need anything else because I'd already done the rest. He's been buying some expensive gear, lately, so this lap steel is back here for sale and I did restring it "as-normal" this time around.
#Fender champion lap steel wiring mod
I originally whipped this up for its owner back in 2019 as a 3x2-strung instrument, but at the time I'd decided to make it an "easy-back" mod so that it could be restrung back to 6x1 "normal" stringing.
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