Solidbody Resonator Guitar

[Taffy Evans]

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]

[Puff]

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

[DarwinStrings]

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

Jim

[Joe Sustaire]

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

[Luke]

very nice taffy I love reso guitars.

[Taffy Evans]

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.