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My new recycled Resenator build

Hi all, here are some photos of my latest build.

The back and sides are silky oak (not really an oak) reclaimed from 100 year old waldrobe door. The top and neck are New Guinee Rosewood. All 1/4 sawn. fingerboard is Ebony and the frets are gold evo frets.

It has a resonator piezo on the cone and a microphone inside, mixed at the pre amp.

Thanks for looking. Taff

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Permalink Reply by David L. on April 12, 2018 at 11:38am

Hi Taff,

Top quality guitar.

The Fishman preamp - is it one of the mic blend ones (presys 301)? If it is, how good is the mic on it? (I bought one off eBay last year but haven't used it yet).

Regards,

David L

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on April 12, 2018 at 1:02pm

Hi David, yes the one with the mic. You can fine tune the microphone separately, I have not done that yet, but it appears to work well. Because it's integrated into the EQ preamp body and that is in the side of the guitar it does transmit guitar knocks and bumps a bit.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by David L. on April 12, 2018 at 2:27pm

Thanks Taff :0)

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on April 12, 2018 at 1:51pm

Wow, that's gorgeous Taff, nice work!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 12, 2018 at 3:24pm

mighty fine work indeed.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Turner on April 12, 2018 at 4:49pm

So nice. I love resonators. I'm sad more people don't play them in a wider variety of styles. Resonators remain a good idea despite amplification.

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on April 13, 2018 at 3:08pm

Thanks for the comments guy's.

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Permalink Reply by Hans on April 16, 2018 at 9:55am

Potentially stupid question: Why are there double dots on the 15th and 19th fret on this one (and double dots on the 19th fret on your beauty, Taffy)? Is that a Dobro thing?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on April 14, 2018 at 2:32am

Beautiful build Taffonator

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on April 14, 2018 at 9:47am

Hi Richard, thanks.

There are quite a few differences really, I think the colour makes them look the same.

some differences are: Mine is square neck, no truss rod but carbon fibre bars, round soundholes, solid Rosewood top not ply laminated maple and I used the Martin '000' shape body instead this time instead of the Dobro shape.

Taff.