How to clean, polish, restring and maintain your resonator guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2020
- How to clean or polish your resonator guitar.
We tackle three things here;
Techniques for restringing slotted headstock guitars.
What strings to use and why.
Also, maintaining nickel and chrome finishes. How to polish a Resonator guitar...
Get your chrome polish and string winder out and let’s go bonkers.
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I know the Gresch Honey Dipper inside and out now, caution don't remove the strap button! While changing to a locking strap button the block of wood that is free floating dropped inside to the unit. I had to pull the complete system apart! Everything down to an empty shell I was at least able to clean the inside of moths, dust and lint. Nailed intonation on all notes, used blue tape for marking where the cone sits and at what angle. I was able to change out the strap button for a locking one! Chalk it up to more experence. Thanks for all the tips & tricks!
A little tip I use here for changing strings on my resos, because I do have that fear of the ball end of the string whipping out of the slot, I take a small piece of electrical tape and cover the bridge piece, where all ball ends are and just keep covering and uncovering as I need to get in there. Just an extra step for safety that's well worth it.
🔵 thanks Âlot❕ love shiny & clean guitars ❕👍 🐊
Thanks for all of your comments. I ended up getting a Regal copper clad tricone
It’s me again. Thank you for this as my nickel plated reso is looking a bit grotty. I had been cleaning with just a damp shammy. However, finding an appropriate chrome/nickel cleaner and a turtle wax polish will now be on my “to do” searches. I’m looking forward to a sparkling clean reso. Cheers for Ottawa Canada.
Awesome, great info, I just got a German silver Tricone,
🔵 on wood i use Mothers car polish Step 1 'pure polish' and Step 2 'micro polishing glaze' all with fibrecloth - the results are absolutely phenomenal ; you can use the pure carnuba wax afterward if you wish , but i usually do not bother this step any longer ❕🐊 🐸🍀
Thanks! 😬👍
Thanks for this. I'm about to buy a resonator and I need all the help I can get
Hi Martin great video for cleaning and polishing. This last weekend I have been setting all of my guitars intonations: Epiphone, Ibanex, Les Paul it's been a gas! Now comes my Gretsch guitar G9201 resonator and it was way # at the 12th fret. Thank goodness for youtube, but saying that it's like a rabbit hole. I could not find anything for this adjustment. I have always been very mechanical aka MacGyver. I am an X scientific service engineer for Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. So I figured I am willing to takle it and I found the cone bridge to be rotated about 4 degrees and touching the metal cone hole. While searching for types of adjustment for the intonation, I can across your site. Any suggestions if the adjustments don't work?
Martin. I might suggest not using Solvol Autosol for cleaning Nickel plated resos. It's too harsh. It's for cleaning Chrome on motorbikes. I use Britemax Final Shine metal polish and sealer. It cleans polishes and waxes in one application. I think I got mine through Amazon. National resos are Nickel plated. Except for a few early ones. Nickel is softer than Chrome and it can be polished away eventually.
I'm a big fan of your work! I have a 38 National Duolian, but most of the paint is gone. I'm thinking about applying 2X clear coat spray paint on its body to create a protective layer and keep it the way it is today. Do you think it is a good idea? Any suggestions on that regard?
Nice video.
How often do you pull the cover and clean the cone and how often do you change your cones?
Hi Martyn,
Autosol is abrasive
Hello friend, how can I remove the rust from my brass guitar? What product do you recommend or treatment.thank you.
Hi, my question is the opposite of what you are doing here! Have you any advice on how to "relic" a chrome resonator to give it a distressed vintage look!
I'm thinking of investing in a chrome resonator but I'm worried about the chrome wearing off. What caused the two or three yellow spots on the upper bout that are yellow in appearance. Did the chrome get rubbed off? Thanks.