Primitive Acoustics

Hey Tom, Welcome to The Nation.  I'm down here in Salt Lake City, but my wife and I have family and friends in Ashland, so we visit there quite a bit.  Here's a video of the awesome guy that works at Cripple Creek Music there in Ashland playing one of my builds that I brought in a year or two ago                                                                                                                                                                                                       .CBG by Tim Greenhalgh at Cripple Creek Music Co. in Ashland, Oregon

Hey Tom,   Yes, Mark!  I couldn't remember his name, but what a great guy!  Let's keep in touch.  We're trying to get to Ashland as soon as possible.  When we do,we'll have to get together.

Tim

very nice work sir.

Huh.  I was a corpsman and respiratory therapist.  Army Reserves.

Hi Tom.  Thanks for the friend add and for the compliment on my steampunk build I did for the contest.

I've built 3 resos and the steampunk was the only one that was sort of a bolt-on neck.  It was still a neck thru, but I built a frame that went around the cone instead of directly under it.  I've done 2 others with 2 different designs.  The depth of the box drives the design criteria, but I always prefer the load of the string tension to be carried by the neck or a frame attached to the neck rather than the box.  

To me, the most important thing when building a reso is accounting for the fact that you can't move the saddle at all.  It is fixed in place so you either have to wait to fret your guitar until everything is fixed in place, or make damn sure your engineering plans come out in reality.  You have to know to the mm the actual distance of your nut to saddle is before you can fret.  With a floating bridge on a standard box build you can fix this after fretting since the bridge can move freely.  With a reso, you have to be spot-on.

I set everything up and mocked the build without any strings.  Then I measured the exact saddle to nut distance.  I was shooting for 25 1/2" scale, but I might have been 1/4" short on that guitar.  Anyway, with the exact distance known, I can then disassemble the neck from the box and fret the neck.

Good luck!  I really enjoyed building the 3 resos, but I'm taking a break.  I'd like to say I'm doing an easier build, but it isn't so.  Just a different challenge.  I haven't settled on whether it will be another steampunk or a Rat Rod.

Hi Tom, 

I just took a pic of the insides of Grumpy Old Git the other day.  I dropped the git on its corner when hanging it up and the box split open at the corner joint.  I usually remember to glue all around the inside perimeter of the box when building for just this reason, but forgot on this git.  Anyway, the attached pic shows the inner workings of this reso if you would like to see how I did my neck-thru style with the stick under the center of the cone.  It takes a fairly deep box to do this, but works very well.  It is very strong under the tension of the medium gauge strings.

Thanks a lot for listening to my music. I appreciate any feed back on my stuff. Your words were truly kind....matt

Hi Tom, I got the message about the NW Fest build your donating. Please send me any website links or Facebook links you would like us too refer people too  Thanks Reeds

Congrats on the Video Tom!

Hey thanks Tommy~T ~~~cool stuff Meowwww^^

Tom, the video Turn Singnal Blues is Awesome :-)

Thanks Tom! Really enjoyed checking out your work,very cool. Love that 4 string of yours,beautiful!

Hey Tom...this is kind of what had in mind. Pick guard and pickups will be black. What do you think?