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Whats your Holy Grail?

We all have a ultimum ,our own HOLY GRAIL in guitars or CBG's.
To Get.Buy, or Build!
Whats YOURS?
This TERRAPLANE custom from John Dawson Winter III is one of mine , a custom build by this brand today is allmost 10000 dollar a Build, far out of reach for my wallet.
But they are out there the ultimo Slide Guitar ,players like Sonny Landreth play on this for me a "HOLY GRAIL"

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Comment by A.D.EKER on December 15, 2018 at 1:14pm: in consept its not far away from the REZOBRO nice piece of work !

Comment by Paul Craig on December 15, 2018 at 10:10am: Yes, it's a small pan/skillet 8" x 1.5" made of aluminum. The bridge is a steel screw on top of a Red Oak bridge block, piezo is on the bottom under the block area. The stop tail claw is from a old Harmony guitar that was in my parts bin.

Comment by A.D.EKER on December 15, 2018 at 8:44am: Is that a friingpan u used there Paul? and i dont see a bridge?looks cool! is that a modified stringholder or a adapted original ?"BlackSun "Sunburst !

Comment by Paul Craig on December 14, 2018 at 12:59pm: I put a round piezo on the bottom of a aluminum skillet for my Strat-O-Rez guitar. Sounds great and the aluminum skillet took away the 60 cycle hum from the pickups.

Comment by A.D.EKER on December 14, 2018 at 12:13pm: Yep thats what the engeneer was doing whit that ,

THAT WHY I PUT MY SHADOW DIRECTLY UNDERNEETH THE BRIDGE OF THE DOGBOWL, AND IT GIVES THE METAL KIND SOUND YOU EXSPECT FROM A METAL REZO, SO EXSTRA PIEZO ON THE BOX OR A HUMBUCKER UNDER THE STRINGS CAN GIVE THE SAME EFFECT! I STILL DONT KNOW THE PRICE , AND I DID SEE THE jOHN wALCH VIDEO WHERE HE ENDORSES HIS LOVE FOR dEUSENBERG, AND THEY DONT COME CHEAP !!

Comment by Paul Craig on December 13, 2018 at 4:38am: They are expensive Andries, but Duesenberg makes excellent guitars and I'm sure you'll love yours. Joe Walsh is a big fan of Duesenberg Guitars and owns several.

That putty knife blade under the bridge video was cool. It gave me a hacking idea for my own purposes, because I have to live on a very tight budget. Haha The only way to get something I want is to build it myself and it's more fun that way too.

The Neodymium magnets for the Reso Pickup makes perfect sense to me for that application, a magnet type can give a lot of influence in tone. Two piezo's in the bridge makes sense because the disc type piezo has that tinny sound you would expect from a Dobro/Metal Reso.

So I need to make one of these and also put a rod piezo in the neck pocket so I can have Acoustic guitar tone too. You know, one guitar to cover all the bases. ;)

Comment by A.D.EKER on December 9, 2018 at 8:11am

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Comment by A.D.EKER on December 9, 2018 at 8:07am: Very interesting Paul ! so close to home!, still trying to find out what the price of this Baby will be, the range of mixing the pick up & the dobro sound is uniek! now i know that im gone make mine electric as well, ordered the stuf yesterday !!