Astral Slide

Put something fun in your lap!

Square neck, raised-nut lap slide with two P-90s. Bigsby palm pedals for bending the G and B strings to pre-set intervals. Pedal steel sounds and versatile chordal voicings. Reverse, straight-line string path with Steinberger gearless tuners. Is that a slide in your pocket?

Steve’s Take: Two P-90s, chambered body, Bigsby palm pedals. The world’s wide open. Totally sounds like a pedal steel. My nephew is creating a wall of sound with it-all loopers and...the P-90s can be very rip-snortin’ distortion, or you can clean them up and do the pedal steel stuff. It takes lap slide to a whole ‘nother level. Put something fun in your lap!

Specifications

Astral Slide Body
• Chambered mahogany back, distinctively hand carved,
bookmatched top with triple bound edges.
• Tap tuned plates.
• Choice of tops: quilted, birdseye, or tiger striped bookmatched maple and more.

Astral Slide Neck
• Available as neck-through-body optional.
• 25” scale.
• 1 13/16” nut width. Other widths by special order.
• Neck/body joint at 16th fret.
• Hand carved, quartersawn mahogany with scarf-jointed headstock and maple or ebony headstock veneer.
• Dual-action truss rod, with convenient adjustment inside guitar body.
• Bound ebony or rosewood fingerboard, with 12” radius,
nitrocellulose lacquered.
• 24 inlayed maple fret position markers.
• Pearl dot position markers.
• Exclusive headstock design with reverse, straight-line string path.
• Raised bone nut.

Hardware
• Bigsby Palm Pedal tailpiece for bending the G & B strings.
• Fully intonatable locking roller bridge.
• Steinberger gearless tuning machines.
• Exclusive knurled steel recessed knobs.

Electronics/Controls
• Two custom voiced Lindy Fralin soapbar P-90 pickups, hum canceling P-90s optional.
• Individual volume and tone for each pickup. Optionally available with single volume and tone for both pickups.
• 3 position toggle switch.
• Master volume. Not available with single volume and
tone option.
• Combination output jack/strap bottom.
• All pots and switches made in U.S.A.

Finish
• Hand rubbed, aged nitrocellulose lacquer. Ultra thin.