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My new recycled Resenator build

Posted by Taffy Evans on April 12, 2018 at 6:23pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

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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  • Lee illis April 24, 2018 at 10:27am

    What a beautiful piece of work love the figuring in the Silky Oak. Great idea with the Mic and Piezo for me since I tend to play with a bit of top thumping to carry the beat. How is it for feedback.

    • Taffy Evans > Lee illis April 25, 2018 at 12:08am

      Hi Lee, well is does feedback. but this depends, as you would know, on the proximity of the guitar to the amp and the volumes played at. The pre amp does have notch and phase controls to minimise this.

      Taff

  • Taffy Evans April 22, 2018 at 6:47am

    Hi, I came across a question from Richard Dean elsware on this site asking how would this guitar sound as an acoustic?

    I would say bottom line is that it would not sound as good, actually no where near as good, as the full acoustics I build using this '000' style of body. For a number of reasons.

    For one thing the guitar top and it's bracing would not be as responsive, the heavier components used would not lend themselves to the type of tone exspected in a good acoustic guitar. 

    The main contributing factors are top design and side depth. But I love the "000" style guitar when built as a full acoustic. I used the "000" style on this guitar as an experiment. It worked well, according to the look on the customers face.

    Thanks for your interest Taff

  • Taffy Evans April 16, 2018 at 7:31pm

    Thanks for the comments everyone.

    Hanns, the two or four dots that are in the fingerboard tongue over the body normally covers the screws or bolts that secure the fingerboard to the top. Resonator necks or normally bolted onto the body.

    Obviously the other two pearl dots on my guitar are traditional twelfth fret markers. 

    I do not think that the Epiphone has four bolts holding down their fingerboard.

    cheers Taff

    • Hans > Taffy Evans April 17, 2018 at 2:42am

      Ah, a very pragmatic reason - I was speculating about all kinds of wild tunings that would make the 15th and 19th fret especially important...

    • Taffy Evans > Taffy Evans April 17, 2018 at 1:05am

      Oooops, 12th fret is marked with 3 pearl dots, but you's would have noticed that.

      Taff

  • Hans April 16, 2018 at 4:24pm

    This is stunningly beautiful!

  • Paul Craig April 15, 2018 at 2:01pm

    That's gorgeous Taff.

  • Michael Fred Johnson April 14, 2018 at 9:32am

    Beautiful build Taffonator

    • Taffy Evans > Michael Fred Johnson April 14, 2018 at 4:47pm

      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.

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