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Comment by Soul Cat Guitar Uke and Amp on January 18, 2011 at 9:55am

Here is a pic of my prototype reso. I used a  metal baking dish installed upside down for the cone and made my cover out of galv. roof flashing. I sodiered the cosspiece on with a propane torch. It has a decent reso sound for what went into it, but I'm going to keep experimenting with the cone. Good luck..

Comment by Joe Scislowicz on August 1, 2010 at 1:37pm

Mark cool reso here, Did you dish our (convex) it somehow? Thanks for the comment on mine Mark. I used the piece of liner mahogany and a 1/4" piece of oak plywood I had lying around for where I bolted on on this one. I see great minds think alike (or fools just figure it out. THis is the first time I am working with the back of the box as the front of the CBG. I am going to overlay part of the fretboard (and glue it) on the box as well, which will provide some support.

Comment by Mark Werner on April 29, 2009 at 1:01pm

Unfortunately, no. I've been working up to it; I have a decent mic, and I have the "Audacity" sound-mixing program. Just haven't stuck it all together yet!

Comment by BT Cohosh on April 29, 2009 at 5:33am

Excellent work. I *love* these improvised materials builds. Have you got a recording of what this sounds like?

Comment by Mark Werner on April 9, 2009 at 8:55am

First "real" resonator build. The resonator is an aluminum cover from a girl-scout cooking set. The neck is a piece of oak I found at work, already nicely tapered. First time I tried a volume control; worked very well. I played this guitar in public about a week ago, plugged into a PA, and it worked fine. (got a lot of comments, too)
The fret position markers are made from punched-out chunks of a Fender flatpick, holes drilled with a Forstner bit.
I tossed around the idea of buying one of those commercial covers, but the 30 bucks seemed a bit dear... I found this aluminum pot lid at a thrift store for .69 cents.... Cut with my skilsaw and drilled.
Little devil sounds great!