Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I completed this guitar a month or so ago and have been playing it and debugging it since. It’s a pain having to pull it apart to change bridge saddles, set up the cone pickup and stuff during the tweaking process, but I’m getting there.

I started out building it as a fun project about a year ago, a bit of an experiment and a bit of bling in the band.

I love all things from the Art Deco period, the period when the Dobro Guitar came into being, so I used the Art Deco theme on this electric solid body resonator guitar.

The body is NG Rosewood
Neck is NG Rosewood
Jarrah Fingerboard
Cone pickup is K&K [into a pre amp]
Magnetic pickup is Gotoh [but will be going up market with that, maybe even a Humbucker]

Taff - that hole through the middle of the bridge palm rest can save a heap of time, With the split saddle there's room for a small bolt to go down and hold a tad of pressure on the spider - maybe with a bridging piece over the saddle slot to protect the pickup. At that you can work on the saddles, one side at a time without taking the the strings and cover plate off and going through all the .... yet again
Very nice touches in there Taff - congrats

Really nice design work Taffy. That headstock with its inlay and art deco tuners sits very well with the shiny metal cover plate.

Jim

Yep that's got fun written all over it!
And I love the rope purfling on the side instead of the top. Very nice touch!

Joe

very nice taffy I love reso guitars.

Thanks for your comments guys.
Puff, thanks for the advise. I had to get inside to reposition the pickup to limit feed back at higher volumes. Yes I normally use that little bolt to adjust for cone tension to modify tone, but the saddles are a tight press fit into the saddle slot [not snug like an acoustic guitar] so I had to remove the spider a couple of times. The acoustic Resonators I build have a more woody sound [the way I build them] mixed with the cone sound.
I think I was used to hearing that warmer sound and not the brash in your face tone I was getting at first, only to be expected with no hollow body.