Weissenborn Aluminum Hand-Made In Italy

Handmade Aluminum Weissenborn. The aluminum Weissenborn is a relatively recent idea. Handmade , The sound is very much woody (don’t know why) but it has a lot of harmonics and some tones that you can only reach with these aluminum models. Especially when amplified.
If you put a pickup on those guitars, you’ll have a weapon to use. This one has a Q Pickups Hand Made P-90 that sings.

Taking inspiration from such prominent lap-slide guitarists as Bob Brozman, Ed Gerhard, Ben Harper, and David Lindley, more and more guitarists are adding the unique tone and gossamer sustain of an acoustic Weissenborn-style lap-steel guitar to their musical arsenals. Lap-style guitars first emerged in Hawaii in the 1980s, 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.