Here is a photo of my latest project. It is a metal bodied resonator. The body is constructed from 26 gauge sheet metal (Home Depot special). The neck is hard Maple with a Walnut fret board.
This is my second resonator project and my first metal body. Learned a lot about shaping and connecting sheet metal.
How does it sound? Exactly how you would expect a metal bodied biscuit resonator to sound. Slightly metallic and very loud.
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There are a lot of variations in "Silver solder". Some are higher silver content than others. I agree it is good stuff, but you have to know now to solder.
To be specific, I did braze the top at about six spots. I had pre-tinned the contacting surfaces of the top and sides and needed them to stay in place as I soldered the remainder. It seemed to work pretty well. That is also why I think it will hold together unless I do something stupid like drop it.
I think that the overall best way to put this thing together would be some kind of fixture to hold it all steady and use silver solder.
Based on what I learned with this build, it probably will not be the last steel body. I like the sound, I specifically designed it to provide 14 frets clear of the body instead of the more common 12 frets. I love being able to slide to the 14th without a lot of contortions.
Overall, a fun build.
I loved the way silver solder flowed as compared to brass bubbling up in globs.
I was at Lowe's today and looked at the welding/soldering supplies. They had a couple of types of solder made for sheet type metal. I'm sure that works better than the solder I was thinking of, might have some silver content to it.
Hope it holds together well and I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Here is a short sound clip for the new resonator Resonaor Sound Clip
Sounds great Tom.
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