Friend request gladly accepted. In 3 days, I'll be back in the office, and can get you the specs I sussed out. I also spent a fair amount of time learning about transmission line and folded horn speaker designs, to try to understand what the Sound Enhancer is actually doing.
Hi Tom. I'm wrestling right now with that whole pickguard/ pick up thing. I'm not real sure what I plan to do yet. I will post some pics of the routing.
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
Tom, glad you like your slide. I just glazed a big batch today to load in the kiln and fire tomorrow. Opening probly sat. or sun. .... Can't wait. .... Dave
Hey Tom, got your slide mailed this morning. Look for it about Sat. It's red white and blue with an open end. Hope you like it. I'm making some now with wider open ends so you can get your finger in that end. It will be a couple of weeks till they are fired. Thanks again, Dave
Hey Tom, i'll send your slide soon. Thanks for wanting one. When you get it there will be a return address to send some loot. Multi color with some blue. Open ended... Dave
Hi Tom, the slides are $10, post included. US only or we can do it 10 with extra for shipping outside US. Let me know your address in a message and what color, open or closed end and any other details you might want. Thanks Tom. .... Dave
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.
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.
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Thanks for your Kind Comments PA Tom! appriciated !!
Friend request gladly accepted. In 3 days, I'll be back in the office, and can get you the specs I sussed out. I also spent a fair amount of time learning about transmission line and folded horn speaker designs, to try to understand what the Sound Enhancer is actually doing.
Thanks Tom, its real simple,good sharp drill bit , a band saw and the right parts.
Hey Tom...this is kind of what had in mind. Pick guard and pickups will be black. What do you think?
Thanks Tom! Really enjoyed checking out your work,very cool. Love that 4 string of yours,beautiful!
Tom, the video Turn Singnal Blues is Awesome :-)
Hey thanks Tommy~T ~~~cool stuff Meowwww^^
Congrats on the Video Tom!
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
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 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.
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.
Huh. I was a corpsman and respiratory therapist. Army Reserves.
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