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Permalink Reply by BP - RabidSalad - on April 24, 2016 at 10:25am

I'm especially inorant of these things...  but I do appreciate the straight shoot.  So if I use JB weld or similar to stick it to the wood does that count as welding???  :)

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on April 24, 2016 at 11:27am

Eh Gad!

I don't want to sound like "Mr. Correctness", but I think that Dobro is a brand name created by the Dopyera brothers when in 1928, they began the manufacturer of resonator guitars that used a spider bridge as opposed to the biscuit bridge then used by the National guitar company.

Dobro is a term commonly applied to a resonator guitar with a square neck and intended to be played laying across the lap and with a slide.

In the end, I guess it doesn't matter what name is used, but the real question becomes "What RabidSalad building?" Is it a guitar with a metal resonator cone or some other design?

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on April 24, 2016 at 2:12pm

It's amazing what guys come up with to get around a patent. The biscuit bridge was so simple, but nooooooooooooooooo, had to make it complicated.

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Permalink Reply by BP - RabidSalad - on April 24, 2016 at 2:23pm

@Tom T

Its a ring thingie with some big holes in it to which I'm gonna mount in some wood and lectric it up with a disc thingie... 

No idea if it'll work but hey...  cbg'n is an adventure not a job.

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on April 25, 2016 at 1:51am

You have the right approach........."Just do it" and don't sweat the details.

If you get a chance to shoot a photo of the ring-thingie with the hole in it, please post it. With the disc thingie, just about anything will produce sound.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on April 24, 2016 at 11:53am

The answer to your question is yes BP,essentially binding is just gluing a strip of whatever you are using around the outside,it's a bit more involved than that,but there are heaps of tutorials on u tube etc

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Permalink Reply by BP - RabidSalad - on April 24, 2016 at 2:20pm

Thx Darryl  I pretty much figured it was like that so I'll go wing it...  as usual.  I know there are tons of tutorials on the net but for me to hunt them down and wade thru a few is at this point to much for my eyes.  I just need to be pointed in the right direction and I can usually stumble my way to the end point.  Many Thx...

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Permalink Reply by Grandpa on April 24, 2016 at 6:42pm

I've hidden a few plywood edges on my license plate reso's. Rustoleum Black was the tool of choice.

Or Krylon.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 25, 2016 at 2:20am

Well, if you do the plywood right, you can make it look like binding...

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Permalink Reply by BP - RabidSalad - on April 25, 2016 at 3:32am

Well I have used the Black paint method of hiding edges on ply like I did on my grand-daughters git build but I'm at a lost at how to make ply look like binding.

I'm thinking I'm going to slice up some oat strips, bend'm around the git.  I'll dark stain the ply so the ply and oak are contrasted.  Hard edge as opposed to a soft ply edge. Thats the plan....  which is subject to change on the first cockup...

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 25, 2016 at 7:22am

You use thin enough ply (3 layer 3/16"), it already looks like binding, if you leave the edge exposed. Alternatively, if you have access to a bandsaw, you can slice it thin, and make yer own binding. All most binding is is very thin strips of wood or plastic glued together - essentially, plywood. You can slice a whole bunch of it off a 4' X 8' sheet of the stuff...

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Permalink Reply by JL on April 26, 2016 at 2:18am

when I hide the edge of a piece of plywood, a thin slice of real wood does the trick.

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