Red Raven
Red Raven Guitars
Los Angeles, CA

Modern lapsteels
for heavy music.

Red Raven Guitars builds non-vintage electric lapsteels for players who make metal, doom, sludge, stoner, and ambient music — instruments designed forward, not restored backward.

Handbuilt in Echo Park Est. 2026
About

No reissues.
No relics.

The lapsteel has spent a century tied to country, Americana, and Hawaiian music, and nearly every one you can buy is still built for that tradition: vintage styling, vintage pickups, vintage tone. Red Raven builds for everyone else. Every instrument starts from what a modern heavy player needs on stage and in the studio: high-output electronics, modern hardware, and a design that doesn't look back.

Metal Doom Sludge Stoner Ambient Experimental

PoeBoy Lapsteel

PoeBoy is Red Raven's debut instrument: a modern lapsteel built for high-gain, low-tuned, heavy playing — not Hawaiian standards.

PoeBoy lapsteel, CAD render
Design render — in development
In active development — CAD finalized, hardware sourcing and build underway
Scale Length
23″ (585mm)
String Spacing (Nut)
1 11/16″ (43mm)
String Spacing (Bridge)
2 3/16″ (56mm)
Body Thickness
1 5/8″ (41mm), solid body
Tuners
Hipshot Griplock
Bridge Pickup
Bare Knuckle Cobra Coil — high-output single coil
Sustainer
Sustainiac Stealth Pro — optional on select builds

The build is being documented start to finish — CAD iterations, cavity routing, wiring decisions — on the way to a public debut.

Get In Touch

Follow the build.

PoeBoy is aiming for a first public showing at Summer NAMM 2027 in Nashville. Reach out to follow the build, ask a question, or get in touch before launch.

Get in touch
Email  info@redravenguitars.com
Based in  Echo Park, Los Angeles
Debut target  Summer NAMM 2027, Nashville