Posted by Frank Harter on February 16, 2015 at 6:28pm
This is my 4th guitar and my first resonator. I couldn't find a box big enough, so I built one out of oak (for the sides) and birch plywood. The resonator is from Old Lowe. Curly maple neck with purpleheart fretboard.
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Beauty. Some of the Cohiba boxes are just large enough for a Lowe cone. I've built 3 with the 8" cones and just finished one with a 9". Big difference in sound.
I made a bit of a hybred. It is a "stressed" paint can lid reso. I hammered around the edge of the lid to put some stress on the metal. Some people really like the sound. I have a problem with the individual strings feeding back sound to the other strings. Not as clear as I would like.
Thanks for the reso info. Maybe some day....I am doing a series of ukes now. Tall Ship ukes.
It's a neck-through body, just did a really deep drop where the reso is located. I like the added stiffness it gives the guitar body, and it also gave me something to anchor the mandolin tailpiece to.
How did your paint can lid resonator turn out? I tried a license plate reso but wasn't thinking and picked the wrong kind of bridge. Now the license plate is just there for effect. Live and learn.
Nothing wrong with fame. I keep wanting to build a real reso, like yours. I don't quite know what to do about the neck through body. Did you just make a very deep neck drop inside the body or is the neck just connected to the front like a standard guitar?
I did build a paint can lid resonator, but it isn't the same.
Hi Gary, yeah, I was really pleased with how it turned out. Learned a bunch in the process, and it took a while to figure out what worked best. In retrospect, I would have done a couple of things differently. It now resides in New Mexico with a friend of mine, a professional recording artist. I'm on my way to fame ;)
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that's nice!
Excellent design and build! Some sort of reso is on my list....
Beauty. Some of the Cohiba boxes are just large enough for a Lowe cone. I've built 3 with the 8" cones and just finished one with a 9". Big difference in sound.
Great job.
Nice job Frank.
Bew tee full.
Frank,
I made a bit of a hybred. It is a "stressed" paint can lid reso. I hammered around the edge of the lid to put some stress on the metal. Some people really like the sound. I have a problem with the individual strings feeding back sound to the other strings. Not as clear as I would like.
Thanks for the reso info. Maybe some day....I am doing a series of ukes now. Tall Ship ukes.
It's a neck-through body, just did a really deep drop where the reso is located. I like the added stiffness it gives the guitar body, and it also gave me something to anchor the mandolin tailpiece to.
How did your paint can lid resonator turn out? I tried a license plate reso but wasn't thinking and picked the wrong kind of bridge. Now the license plate is just there for effect. Live and learn.
nice
Nothing wrong with fame. I keep wanting to build a real reso, like yours. I don't quite know what to do about the neck through body. Did you just make a very deep neck drop inside the body or is the neck just connected to the front like a standard guitar?
I did build a paint can lid resonator, but it isn't the same.
Hi Gary, yeah, I was really pleased with how it turned out. Learned a bunch in the process, and it took a while to figure out what worked best. In retrospect, I would have done a couple of things differently. It now resides in New Mexico with a friend of mine, a professional recording artist. I'm on my way to fame ;)
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