The Waterslide Coodercaster T-Style is one part lap steel and one part T-style guitar with a nitrocellulose lacquer finish that has been lightly relic'd and aged.
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, Teisco 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.
- Serial #: 7/3/2023
- Body: swamp ash
- Finish: aged 'butterscotch' nitro
- Neck: maple/rosewood
- Scale: 25.5"
- Radius: 9.5"
- Neck profile: soft V-C (.86")
- Nut: bone, 1 11/16"
- Tuners: Gotoh vintage style
- Frets: 6105
- Bridge pickup: Lollar Valco-style lap steel
- Neck pickup: Lollar Teisco-spec Gold Foil
- Bridge: custom Waterslide stainless steel
- Saddles: Gotoh 'In Tune' brass
- Electronics: VI pots, PIO cap, cloth covered wiring, PureTone jack
- Control plate: reversed, w/angled switch
- Switch tip: metal
- Knobs: vintage HiFi
- Pickguard: leopard celluloid
- Strings: 11-48, StringJoy
- Weight: 6lbs 15oz
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, Teisco 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.
- Serial #: 7/3/2023
- Body: swamp ash
- Finish: aged 'butterscotch' nitro
- Neck: maple/rosewood
- Scale: 25.5"
- Radius: 9.5"
- Neck profile: soft V-C (.86")
- Nut: bone, 1 11/16"
- Tuners: Gotoh vintage style
- Frets: 6105
- Bridge pickup: Lollar Valco-style lap steel
- Neck pickup: Lollar Teisco-spec Gold Foil
- Bridge: custom Waterslide stainless steel
- Saddles: Gotoh 'In Tune' brass
- Electronics: VI pots, PIO cap, cloth covered wiring, PureTone jack
- Control plate: reversed, w/angled switch
- Switch tip: metal
- Knobs: vintage HiFi
- Pickguard: leopard celluloid
- Strings: 11-48, StringJoy
- Weight: 6lbs 15oz