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Location: ranson,wva | i got plenty of time on my hands!! we shall see how it goes!! thanks jason |
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Location: ranson,wva | im learning this as i go along, do you use a sound well with a biscuit or just with a spider bridge?? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Just an old memory, my fiddle playing brother and I used to walk about three miles to our friends house in sub freezing weather to jam. Bill had a strange guitar with what we know as resophonic, it had a square neck, but Billy tried to play it like a guitar. It generally irritated us, I, being the steel guitar player at the time could get some good sound out of it but hey wanted the electric sound, so we missed putting a dobro in our band.
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by johnnycash83:
im learning this as i go along, do you use a sound well with a biscuit or just with a spider bridge?? A biscuit cone must have a soundwell, or there'd be no way to support it in a body of that depth. A lip around the hole will suppport a spider cone without a soundwell, but it will be much easier to buy a ready-made soundwell from Stewmac than try to cobble something together.
Some Dobro makers, notably Sheerhorn, don't use soundwells. |
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Location: San Angelo, Texas | I always thought biscuit scones were to go with tea... |
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Location: ranson,wva | thanks temp! you guys have been alot of help. i got my materials for the top today, i still gotta get the old top off..but before i go and do any cutting and shit i gotta work it all out on paper first. ill figure it out or fuck it up!! one of the two!! jason |
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Location: ranson,wva | i just wish i could get a wood neck for the old matrix..........wishful thinking i guess..oh well..jason |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I'd go for the biscuit, better tone afterwards.
12 string resos, yea they are made, so what. I don't own one, too much going on at the same time. Kinda like a third tit on a nun. Frankly the longneck 12 is about the same. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | 3rd tit. OK, now I REALLY got the message! Kinda thought as much, though. Just cuz it can be done doesn't mean it should be. Maybe I will concentrate on inlaying and an exotic top for the "Bad Habit/Basket Case" project. Any ideas on innovative bracing patterns for 12-fret/12-strings? |
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Location: ranson,wva | i wonder if i could have a custom neck made for the matrix?? |
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Location: Scotland | That would be no problem, if you're prepared to pay. Thing is, you could find a 70's Balladeer for the same money or less |
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resophonic matrix??
