Resonator
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:45 pm
Hey all
Just cut a batch of kerfed lining and made a body pattern, so this is the start of new project - an Ash resonator from a log off a friend's West-By-God-Virginia mountaintop farm. A 30 year old piece of Walnut is contributing the fretboard, end graft, and peghead veneer. I got a leftover resonator cover from Tacoma Guitars from when they used to make them - it has their teardrop pattern on it. The cone is from Beard. I found some rope purfling which I will combine with black/white strips and a tortoise binding. I will use the rope as a rosette around the 9-1/2" hole - something I have never seen before. I got some Kluson waffle back tuners - cheap, I know, but I won't wear them out and they look appropriate to the task. The thin wood for the sides is ready to go, but the neck blank needs another month in my basement kiln - 110° and 20-25% RH. I will finish everything natural, so it is all in shades of brown - and the rope purfling is a good match. There is some Baltic Birch plywood in the shop that will be used for structure and the cone shelf, and I still need a couple of parts from John - truss rod, frets, nut. I am making up some interior details to try for a different sort of sound. I couldn't find a set of plans for wood bodied biscuit bridge guitar, so I got plans for a steel bodied one.
Ready, set, go
Just cut a batch of kerfed lining and made a body pattern, so this is the start of new project - an Ash resonator from a log off a friend's West-By-God-Virginia mountaintop farm. A 30 year old piece of Walnut is contributing the fretboard, end graft, and peghead veneer. I got a leftover resonator cover from Tacoma Guitars from when they used to make them - it has their teardrop pattern on it. The cone is from Beard. I found some rope purfling which I will combine with black/white strips and a tortoise binding. I will use the rope as a rosette around the 9-1/2" hole - something I have never seen before. I got some Kluson waffle back tuners - cheap, I know, but I won't wear them out and they look appropriate to the task. The thin wood for the sides is ready to go, but the neck blank needs another month in my basement kiln - 110° and 20-25% RH. I will finish everything natural, so it is all in shades of brown - and the rope purfling is a good match. There is some Baltic Birch plywood in the shop that will be used for structure and the cone shelf, and I still need a couple of parts from John - truss rod, frets, nut. I am making up some interior details to try for a different sort of sound. I couldn't find a set of plans for wood bodied biscuit bridge guitar, so I got plans for a steel bodied one.
Ready, set, go