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Crossroads memorial resonator

I built this little 3 string resonator in remembrance of my trip this spring to Mississippi. I visited THE crossroads in Clarksdale (highways 49 & 61) and picked up a small branch that fell off of the tree located at the crossroads themselves. I turned this into the fret markers. I used green mother of pearl side markers at the fret lines to help with slide playing.The nut is a piece on deer antler I picked up at the Vicksburg battle site just above the site of the iron clad battleship "Cairo". The ship was inspiration for the Victorian style brass and bolt motif. The neck is Peruvian walnut from CB Gitty and it has a brass Lowe cone and western star sound hole covers. I cut a clamping ring from brass and drilled it to match the cone. The box is a cheap and cheerful craft box which I braced and tightened up. A cabinet maker friend machined me a solid oak internal neck extension to mount the box onto. It is fitted with an Artec in-line preamp output socket and finally is is fitted with one of Randy Bretz's fine rod biscuits with a brass saddle. It sings very well with a high Dad stringing. I'm very pleased with this as it is my first real guitar build!

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Comment by Maddog on June 15, 2013 at 1:10am: Simply put...... "Beautiful" Tom!!!

Comment by Tom Lauten on June 14, 2013 at 8:41pm: Thank you very much David.

Comment by David Clark on June 14, 2013 at 8:05pm: Really, really, nice.

Comment by Tom Lauten on June 14, 2013 at 4:46pm: Thanks man!

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 14, 2013 at 8:24am: SWEET! ;-)

Comment by Tom Lauten on June 14, 2013 at 7:40am: Thanks Reeds.

Comment by Reeds Taylor on June 14, 2013 at 7:28am: And pleased you should be....it's beautiful!

Comment by Tom Lauten on June 14, 2013 at 7:07am: Thank you very much!

Comment by Pascal on June 14, 2013 at 6:39am: stunning!

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