Im working on a license plate CBG but not sure about a few things. I have a cigar box that is almost a perfect fit for a personalized plate.
1 Should I cut out the wood from under where the plate will be at?
2 Do I attach the piazo directly to the
Read more…I acquired this thing for $3 thinking I would re-purpose the tuners, nut, and perhaps neck and bridge into future CBG builds... But I am now thinking I would like instead to make it resophonic. It is a 35" instrument with a 24" scale if I measured it
Read more…This my first resonator made from a chicken feeder pan walnut neck piezio amplified
Read more…Hi guys I viseted a local store today ,they had for sale some tin plate placks aproximatly 12" × 8" in size normally us ed for hanging on the kitchen wall ,if this was atached to a frame like a licence plate would this be strong enough to resinate
Read more…Hi.a pal of mine recently made me a nice resonator guitar by using a full size cone and spider set and spider set, fantastick sound, ut after looking at smaller cigar box resinators thats box was made of aliminium I am now wishing I done the same.I
Read more…Greetings, has anyone used the center lead rod piezo sold by Gitty to amplify a homemade cone/biscuit assembly? I've cut a groove in the wooden biscuit and wanted to use a piece of deer antler as a saddle (see photo below). I was planning to drill
Read more…I'm going to make Dog Bowl reso , the box is 2in deep inside so I've made the neck double thickness inside the box so it fits snug in the box , I've notched the top of the neck inside the box so the lid is free to vibrate , and cut out where the dog
Read more…Hi all, can anyone help? I want to try and spin my own reso'. Which metal gives what tone? How do I calculate sizes from blank to finished size? What tools etc?
Hopeful, 'fingers'.
Read more…I have been experimenting with simple resonators but did not want to sacrifice the straight through neck that most cigar box guitars have.
So far I have experimented with simple tin can lid under the bridge, I have been quite pleased with the results
Read more…Finally getting around to my first resonator after getting several requested "regular" builds finished and had a question. Does the sound from a reso benefit more from the vibration on the box and cone? Or can you get the sound you want from a magnet
Read more…I have just taken delivery of a wine box from e bay ,It's dimentions are 13"x7.5"x4" deep, what is the Ideal deapth for a resonator cbg.I am using and old low's cone Mal(uk)
Read more…About a third finished, should sound like a reso when complete. Will post pics as I go. Be sure to check out the Kopopelli resonator on my page. I just finished final setup & it's fantastic. Un-amped it is louder than my Dobro.
Got to go watch footb
Read more…Hi guys I have recently finished my first resonat ukulele, well pleased with the sound better still on the amp.Mal (UK)
Pictures enclosed
Read more…Hello, volume connoisseurs. I've been lurking around this site for a while now. Just joined the other day. I've already built a couple of instruments - a three string CBG and a little CB uke. Both were pretty successful. Now, I want to try something
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I want to use the components (box and the lid of the "micro trash dumpster") for my first reso build.
Will it work? I expect the sound to be a bit on the "tinny" side anyway...
Read more…I've seen a lot of resonator guitars built with magnetic pickups. Do the magnetic pickups capture some of the unique sound that you get when playing a resonator acoustically? Do you have to have a piezo type pickup? Are there specific types of pic
Read more…I was wondering if anyone else was building electric resonators? I have build one with a homemade magnetic pickup, it works pretty well, I just need to refine the neck and break angles. What are you all doing?
Read more…Interesting principle: http://www.notecannons.com/ then go to "STROVIOLS" and take a look how the bridge works! Worth to give a try!?
Read more…A friend of mine picked up two beautiful boxes that are good sized, but the lids seem quite thick. I was thinking about making my first resonator out of one of them, but I can't get the mechanics in my head. If you will bear with me, I would like to
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