I saw Red dog guitars radiola res using Old Lowe parts...well Ive got me some in the post!!
I dont know too much about the biscuit...are they pretty simple to make or is there a knack??
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I think I'm pretty somewhat nearly averagely OK at building these instruments and parts. Every time I build a biscuit bridge I wish I had just ordered one from Randy. Not to say that I can't make one, but I've been very, very happy with Randy's work and when I compare mine, well, I don't measure up.
If you want function at low cost and fair time investment, make one. If you want beauty (and a superior function and a very fair price), then see Randy.
In one person's opinion, anyway.
Mojobone Works on the left and my homemade on the right.
How I made mine, if you want an idea.
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/rod-biscuits
Someone say biscuit...how about some eggs and a piece of bacon with that...lol.
It's easy enough to make a biscuit bridge - take a piece of hardwood, preferably something like maple, take it down to about 1/4" thick and use a holesaw of the appropriate size to cut your blank. Fill the hole in the middle with a plug of dowel, cut a slot for the saddle across it, make a saddle out of hard maple and drive it into the slot (don't glue it, just make it a tight friction fit). That's it, ready to install and slot for the strings. A little time consuming, but not too hard.
Well, you just need some flour, some sugar and some butter... sorry :)
Have a look at Randy S. Bretz's page - he makes some amazing looking biscuits. Round piece of material which sits in the centre of the cone, with some kind of bridge material (bone/corian etc) on the top for the strings to rest on at the right height.
I've never made a reso myself - the thing I worry about is getting the scale length exactly right - i.e. if the biscuit wasn't in the dead centre of the cone I would cry. It wouldn't matter if you were going fretless though. Anyway, I'm sure someone with more experience will weigh in soon.
Good luck!
Oh. Sorry.
You could purchase a biscuit and saddle combo with a rod piezo pickup from Randy Bretz here at CBN, if you want a gorgeous custom jobby, if don't feel comfy doing it yourself. Or Old Lowe also sells biscuits, if I'm not mistaken. Or you could order a biscuit and saddle from one of the resonator guitar manufacturers, or search biscuits out online, and do it that way. Or you can make your own from a disc of maple, mahogany or other hardwood, slot it for a saddle, and make your own saddle from bone, Corian, or hardwood.
Here:
http://elderly.com/accessories/cats/MIRS.html
http://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and_Parts/All_Hardware_and_Parts_by...
http://www.deltaresonatorcones.co.uk/index.html
lol Oily - we wrote effectively the same response at the same time :)
...think of biscuits?