Please note that Waterslide is no longer taking orders and instead only provides us guitars that are ready for sale. We are leaving this listing here only as an example of Waterslide builds - it is not actually "available to order".
The Waterslide Coodercaster S-Style is one part lap steel and one part S-style guitar with a nitrocellulose lacquer finish that has been lightly relic'd and aged. The bodies are generally lightweight alder or swamp ash.
PICKUPS
In the bridge position are Mojo UK Valco-style lap steel pickups. These pickups nail the vintage sound and design of the early pickups used on Supro, Oahu & National steel guitars - very fat with tons of sustain and punch. This type of pickup is often used by slide players like Ry Cooder, Jason Isbell and Blake Mills. Their unique design with a surrounding metal base plate and pickup cover has a special magic with open tunings and bottleneck playing.
The neck pickups are vintage-spec Mojo UK Gold Foils, either Guyatone, Teisco or Dearmond spec. Gold Foil pickups are a great choice in the neck position as they hold their own with the bridge position lap steel pickup with a sweet top end and clarity that provides a nice complement, tonally.
Those of you familiar with Coodercasters know that the design of the old Valco-style lap steel pickups typically results in a middle position where three strings are in-phase and three are out. Waterslide has worked with Mojo Pickups to come up with a solution to that problem so all Waterslide Coodercasters with the Mojo UK lap steel pickups feature a switching system which allows all six strings to be in-phase with each other when both pickups are on.
SPECS:
- Serial #: 10/20/2021
- Body: lightweight alder body
- Finish: lightly aged black nitro
- Neck: maple/rosewood
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Fingerboard radius: 12 inch
- Neck profile: med C (.85")
- Nut: 1 11/16" bone
- Tuners: Gotoh vintage style
- Frets: 6105
- Pickups: Mojo lap steel & Teisco-spec gold foil
- Tremolo: Kluson vintage w/ steel block
- Electronics: VI pots, PIO cap, cloth covered wiring, Switchcraft jack
- Switch tip: metal
- Knobs: vintage HiFi
- Strings: StringJoy 11-48
- Weight: 8lbs 2oz