So my License Plate Reso is not selling. Don't get me wrong, it looks as cool as hell. I just don't think I like the way it sounds. So I am going to do something about it. I am going to modify it into something else that I can use. I have a really nice Reso built by Shane Wagstaff who is also on The Nation. It's a sweet sweet sounding box. So I will have a go a modding the License Plate Reso myself into a non Reso with a mag Pup.




Here is the plan. I am going to take out the resonator cone and sound well. I am going to replace the bridge with a simple floating bridge at the same point as the biscuit bridge is now. between the two '1's' on the number plate, I will mount a humbucker pickup by cutting through the number plate and attaching it to the neck stock below. a simple tone and volume put will be on the side of the box somewhere. Possibly with chicken head knobs. This should give me something that will sound OK with or without amplification and will look the dogs bollocks.

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Comment by Norm Fasey on November 1, 2010 at 12:12pm
I am going to leave the piezo in and have the humbucker as well with a toggle switch.
Comment by PapaSimone on November 1, 2010 at 11:50am

Michigan 1976 has a cool license plate. Patriotic and bad ass!
Comment by PapaSimone on November 1, 2010 at 11:42am
I'm following this discussion closely. I want to make a license plate reso with no cone. I haven't decided on a piezo pick up or a stonehenge pickup. It seems to me that a piezo pick up would make more sense to catch the sound of the license plate.
Comment by Norm Fasey on November 1, 2010 at 11:23am
So a floating bridge on top of the License Plate.
Comment by Outhouse Instruments on November 1, 2010 at 10:53am
ah! Ok .... I know what you mean by the looks but not sound department. Mine looks way cool, even more so with an old PA LP.
But only a few , usually old or pure blues guys, appreciate the sound.


Matt
Comment by Roger Morin on November 1, 2010 at 6:24am
I have to agree with Matt the plate is the reso. What you have is a reso with in a reso. Before making to many mods Just take out the reso cone and and sound well from the inside and just use the license plate to se how it sounds.
Comment by Norm Fasey on October 31, 2010 at 10:36pm
Hi Matt,

No it has a spun aluminium cone and a sound well. It's a very nicely made instrument.
Comment by Outhouse Instruments on October 31, 2010 at 2:31pm
Hmmm, an LP reso with a cone? I thought the idea was to use the plate as the reso.


Matt

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