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Lowe Cone Brass Resonators

Posted by Bad Finger (Eric) on January 15, 2014 at 9:13am
Sharing these side-by-side now that both are finished. One pretty and one pretty ugly. Both with brass resonator cones from Old Lowe and the one on the left has a Mojobone Works biscuit bridge. The one one the right has my own biscuit bridge made from an old piece of standing-dead cherry stump and a bone blank (not nearly as nicely done as Randy's).I boiled the bone for the nut and saddle in old coffee grounds for a few minutes to age them and it worked great. Both have my design zero bone. I love this feature as it adds great tone and much easier to make compared to a traditional style bone nut.Both have maple necks which are a pair of 1x2 sticks glued together on the faces with separate maple fret boards. The stained one is bird's eye maple.Using resonator cones is obviously more technically demanding than a floating bridge, but I love the sound and increased volume.
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  • Better Trees June 12, 2014 at 6:54pm

    I found an image with 5 pages of comments to answer me. Lol.  Cool stuff.

  • Bad Finger (Eric) June 12, 2014 at 6:22pm
    A week of leaks.
  • Better Trees June 12, 2014 at 6:20pm

    That is the cone? Wow. How many treatments did you give it?  Good looking builds, btw.

  • Bad Finger (Eric) January 15, 2014 at 2:03pm

    Thanks Bluesheart adn Uncle John.  I really enjoy playing both, but I have to admit a strong aesthetic preference for the pretty ugly one.  I'll try to shoot a construction details video for that one.  There are some good tricks I discovered along the way.

  • Uncle John January 15, 2014 at 1:58pm

    Purty and ugly.  I LOVE mr UGGY.

  • Bluesheart January 15, 2014 at 12:34pm

    Those are both awesome in their own way, nice job!!

  • Bad Finger (Eric) January 15, 2014 at 10:17am

    Thanks Randy!  I think I'm going to give my brain a rest having done 3 resos in a row.  I need to do a couple floating bridges before I tackle another cone build, but I'm itching to come up with my own tricone scheme.  The wheels never stop turning.

  • Randy S. Bretz January 15, 2014 at 10:04am

    2 builds to be proud of right there Eric...conqrats on two fine reso`s.

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