Hey! Welcome to the workshop.

I’m luthier Scott Beckwith. I was a part of starting and building Birdsong Guitars for its first 20 years and still own and run the company. www.birdsongguitars.com

I’ve also been building my own signed-headstock “Scott Signature” instruments since 1997 -www.sbeckwith.com - as well as some really cool lap steel guitars, too…

Which brings us to BuddyBoy!Like I did with short scale basses, I distilled all I learned into a steel with a big voice and a few variations…

My vision of the perfect steel.

Three standard models with room for fun and whimsy as I create them, each bench crafted in my one-man “North Country” Adirondack, NY workshop! Check ‘em out here: www.buddyboy.net/models


Here are some past lap steels (elements of these are in the new models):