--- product_id: 10676685 title: "Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural" brand: "recording king" price: "AR$343202" currency: ARS in_stock: false reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/10676685-recording-king-lap-steel-guitar-natural store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Single EMG-Designed P-90 Pickup Solid Mahogany Body Open Geared Tuners Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural **Brand:** recording king **Price:** AR$343202 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🎵 Elevate Your Music Game with Style! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural by recording king - **How much does it cost?** AR$343202 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/10676685-recording-king-lap-steel-guitar-natural) ## Best For - recording king enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted recording king brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Sleek Design:** String-through body design enhances sustain and resonance. - • **Precision Tuning:** Equipped with open geared tuners for effortless tuning stability. - • **Versatile Control:** Volume and tone controls allow for personalized sound shaping. - • **Perfect Dimensions:** Compact size (35 x 4.25 x 12 inches) for easy portability. - • **Unleash Your Sound:** Crafted from solid mahogany for rich, resonant tones. ## Overview The Recording King Lap Steel Guitar features a solid mahogany body and a single EMG-designed P-90 pickup, delivering exceptional sound quality. With volume and tone controls, open geared tuners, and a string-through body design, this guitar is perfect for musicians seeking both style and performance. Its compact dimensions make it an ideal choice for on-the-go players. ## Description Recording King Lap Steel Review: Pleasantly surprised! It'll put a smile on your face. - At the price, I didn't expect much. I was, however, pleasantly surprised with what I got. Steel guitar is not my primary instrument, but I play well enough to lay down some country backing tracks when called upon to do so. This little rascal will get that done for under two hundred bucks. The instrument is solid, and the strings-thru-body design assures stability. The bridge and nut are unimpressive, but they both do their job well enough. I can see upgrading the nut in the near future. The tuning pins are of reasonable quality, and they bring the strings to pitch and keep them there. What more did anyone want them to do? The pickup won't wow anyone, but neither will the price of the instrument. The fact is that the P-90 delivers well enough to satisfy me, and I've been making music in Nashville for more than a quarter century. You're going to need an appropriate amp, reverb and a ton of fat compression to get the sustain and tone most of us associate with the steel in country music, but with an appropriate rig this Recording King will put a smile on your face. Finally, if looks are important to you, in spite of its inexpensive materials, the RG-31 is fairly handsome. The matte finish mahogany body is simple and classy, and the plexiglass white pearloid fingerboard is, IMO, appropriate to the overall clean design of the guitar. It's all a matter of taste, but to me the look of this guitar offers a nice break from all the totems, hearts, diamonds and thunderbirds that seem to have proliferated like cheap tattoos in the steel guitar world. To sum it up, I have experienced none of the unfortunate problems with this Recording King lap steel that others have reported. I took it out of the box, installed new strings (this will be needed if you play with C6 tuning), ran it through a tube preamp, then directly into Logic Pro where I used a vintage amp model with plenty of reverb and applied some heavy compression using a standard Logic Pro plugin. The sonic results were indistinguishable from what would have been expected from a greatly more expensive instrument. The only thing that would have improved the track would have been a better steel guitarist! Review: It's Cheap Beginner/Hobbyists Lap Steel...BUT WORTH IT! - I have been a musician for over 25 years and decided to pick up playing lap steel. I didn't want to spend a lot of money if it ended up being something I didn't enjoy and at this price there wasn't much risk. Unlike the other reviewers mine showed up in perfect working order. No scratches or dings. I don't get what they were complaining about the neck being reflective...it's pearloid-esque. Not overly reflective just pretty. Maybe if you shined 1000 watt lights at it you might be blinded but I can see where I am on the neck just fine. The design is simple...solid wood with six strings, a small P90 like p/u, volume and tone controls. It plays as it should and seems very solid. I played with the factory installed strings and it sounded great. The only downside was the pickup didn't seem overly responsive and somewhat uneven. Part of that could be my lack of skill. Either way it's not unplayable but in the future a pickup and electrical swap may make a difference. If you're just starting don't over look this one. ## Features - Solid Mahogany Body - Single EMG-Designed P-90 Pickup - Volume and Tone Constrols - Open Geared Tuners - String-Through body Desing ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B001WAKUEI | | Back Material Type | Solid Mahogany | | Best Sellers Rank | #160,856 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #1,711 in Solid Body Electric Guitars | | Body Material | Wood | | Body Material Type | Wood | | Brand | Recording King | | Brand Name | Recording King | | Color | Brown, White | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 31 Reviews | | Fretboard Material Type | Pearloid | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00840246028792 | | Guitar Bridge System | Fixed | | Guitar Pickup Configuration | H | | Hand Orientation | Right | | Included Components | not included | | Instrument | Lap Steel Guitar | | Instrument Size | Medium | | Item Dimensions | 35 x 4.25 x 12 inches | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 35"L x 4.25"W x 12"H | | Manufacturer | Recording King | | Manufacturer Part Number | GTSRG31NA | | Material Type | Stainless Steel | | Model Name | RG-31-NA | | Model Number | RG-31-NA | | Neck Material Type | Mahogany | | Number of Strings | 6 | | Scale Length | 23.25 | | String Material Type | Alloy Steel | | Top Material Type | Mahogany Wood | | UPC | 840246028792 | | Warranty Description | Lifetime limited. | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Recording King - **Color:** Brown, White - **Top Material Type:** Mahogany Wood - **Body Material:** Wood - **Back Material Type:** Solid Mahogany - **Neck Material Type:** Mahogany - **Fretboard Material Type:** Pearloid - **Guitar Pickup Configuration:** H - **String Material Type:** Alloy Steel - **Hand Orientation:** Right ## Images ![Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61vHRpFaPbL.jpg) ![Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vCfr3LIWL.jpg) ![Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41EfKKrWDVL.jpg) ![Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61I1Sf2-xRL.jpg) ![Recording King Lap Steel Guitar, Natural - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ZAe8zhe6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pleasantly surprised! It'll put a smile on your face. *by L***Y on August 8, 2013* At the price, I didn't expect much. I was, however, pleasantly surprised with what I got. Steel guitar is not my primary instrument, but I play well enough to lay down some country backing tracks when called upon to do so. This little rascal will get that done for under two hundred bucks. The instrument is solid, and the strings-thru-body design assures stability. The bridge and nut are unimpressive, but they both do their job well enough. I can see upgrading the nut in the near future. The tuning pins are of reasonable quality, and they bring the strings to pitch and keep them there. What more did anyone want them to do? The pickup won't wow anyone, but neither will the price of the instrument. The fact is that the P-90 delivers well enough to satisfy me, and I've been making music in Nashville for more than a quarter century. You're going to need an appropriate amp, reverb and a ton of fat compression to get the sustain and tone most of us associate with the steel in country music, but with an appropriate rig this Recording King will put a smile on your face. Finally, if looks are important to you, in spite of its inexpensive materials, the RG-31 is fairly handsome. The matte finish mahogany body is simple and classy, and the plexiglass white pearloid fingerboard is, IMO, appropriate to the overall clean design of the guitar. It's all a matter of taste, but to me the look of this guitar offers a nice break from all the totems, hearts, diamonds and thunderbirds that seem to have proliferated like cheap tattoos in the steel guitar world. To sum it up, I have experienced none of the unfortunate problems with this Recording King lap steel that others have reported. I took it out of the box, installed new strings (this will be needed if you play with C6 tuning), ran it through a tube preamp, then directly into Logic Pro where I used a vintage amp model with plenty of reverb and applied some heavy compression using a standard Logic Pro plugin. The sonic results were indistinguishable from what would have been expected from a greatly more expensive instrument. The only thing that would have improved the track would have been a better steel guitarist! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's Cheap Beginner/Hobbyists Lap Steel...BUT WORTH IT! *by B***J on January 4, 2011* I have been a musician for over 25 years and decided to pick up playing lap steel. I didn't want to spend a lot of money if it ended up being something I didn't enjoy and at this price there wasn't much risk. Unlike the other reviewers mine showed up in perfect working order. No scratches or dings. I don't get what they were complaining about the neck being reflective...it's pearloid-esque. Not overly reflective just pretty. Maybe if you shined 1000 watt lights at it you might be blinded but I can see where I am on the neck just fine. The design is simple...solid wood with six strings, a small P90 like p/u, volume and tone controls. It plays as it should and seems very solid. I played with the factory installed strings and it sounded great. The only downside was the pickup didn't seem overly responsive and somewhat uneven. Part of that could be my lack of skill. Either way it's not unplayable but in the future a pickup and electrical swap may make a difference. If you're just starting don't over look this one. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great!!!!!!! *by F***M on November 25, 2014* Did a lot of research before I decided to go with this lap steel. Despite some bad reviews I knew that I could actually fix any electrical problem it might had. I wanted the mahogany body and the P-90 and got the natural finished one. This thing is really great! I simply love it. The pickup is noisy like hell, but... it's a P-90. I'll probably change the pickup, pots, wires and everything for high quality stuff, but it's something that I've been doing with all my guitars. Right now I just make the humming disappear with a good noise gate. The pickup also has a decent output. I've notice that one or two strings are slightly lower than the others, but since I play hard, it doesn't bother me. Again, it's just a matter of adjustments on the nut. It's really well made, nice finished and apparently there are no cheap parts. The tuners are good enough to hold it in tune and I've been messing with the strings that came with it a lot on the past weeks. Went from standard to open E, than to open G and back to open E and had no problems with the tuning at all. I really love this thing and plan to buy one or two more to use with different tunings. So far I'm very happy with it and would recommend this to my very best friend. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/10676685-recording-king-lap-steel-guitar-natural](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/10676685-recording-king-lap-steel-guitar-natural) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-08-28*