Hello everyone. I have not seen this tried often, but I am new so forgive me if the same thing has been tried before. I am more comfortable working with metal than wood so I did not want to go through a bunch of work to reinforce the wood in the box to make it strong enough so I opted for this stick on box design (I hope that is the proper term). I used a stainless steel dog bowl for the resonator, but left it right side up and trimmed away the excess part of the bowl. I made the bridge height totally adjustable so I could experiment with string height. I attached a piezo buzzer for a pickup to the bottom of the bowl. This was my third build and first resonator and I really like the sound I get from it with or without an amp. I can't play worth a damn or I would post a video for a sound demo.
-Ed
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If you want to be fancy, it's "mountain dulcimer style"
Awesomely cool backwoods sound on that build!
Pretty and sounds nice too!
Some of you wanted to hear what is sounded like, so I made this short example because as I said, I am not much of a player.
https://youtu.be/20gTuZY27Mc
That's got a nice soung to it. Good quality resonator.
Very nice git! What's the neck made from? Or is it stained? I like the topside resonator and bridge arrangement on this. And I agree, it's power chords on a stick, knock a few out (please) so we can hear it rattle a little. :)
Thanks Sean. The neck is red oak that I stained with Rust-oleum ebony.
Too bad you don't like your playin, cause it sure would be great to hear that git. Nice work.
If you heard my playing, you would feel differently :-) I am working hard to get better so maybe I can post something in the future.
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