My first resonator

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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  • 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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