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I don't have that one, but I do have a lap steel (mine's a Recording King).
Lap steel is familiar enough to be able to get going fairly quickly, but very different in terms of what can be done compared to regular "spanish" guitar, so you really need to think about what you play if you want to play on a song alongside a band. When you play with the bar slanted you can only really get two or maybe three notes at a time, so you need to take a very different approach. Be careful with muting too- it's very easy to end up with stray notes ringing, which will sound particularly bad when you play slants.
I highly recommend getting yourself a set of thumb and finger picks- feels a little weird and clumsy to begin with if you're not used to playing wearing them, but much louder, brighter tone than fingertips. You can- as with any guitar- affect tone significantly by changing the position of your picking hand, even if there's only one pickup. Picking over where the neck pickup would be gives a rounder, warmer sound than picking directly over the bridge pickup.
It's worth experimenting with different open tunings to find one that works for you- for blues and rock open D or G is probably a good choice, whereas for country or hawaiian stuff C6 is popular. C6 is very high compared to open D or G, so be careful if you're tuning up the heavy strings used for those tunings. I bent the bridge on my RK!
Oh, and you have to play some blues with a fuzz pedal. Good fun.
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