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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 was wondering if you just used a aliminiam front plate like some reguler guitar if you would get an even better sound what do you guys think Mal (UK)

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Permalink Reply by PhilUSAFRet on March 23, 2014 at 12:17am

It may, but overwhelming majority of sound comes from the cone.

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