I love the sound of a dobro, which is why I clicked on this. A clear how-to presentation, good editing. Nicely played, at the end. A great dog. Hope you are doing well.
I have had this nice little Art & Lutherie Roadhouse parlor guitar. I used to love to play this little guitar in bed before falling asleep. I don't think my dogs liked it much, but it relaxed me. Anyway, one night I rolled over in my sleep and fell out of bed. right onto the face of this guitar. The top is now riddled with cracks, but the rest of the body and neck is fine. That was 5 or 6 years ago, and I've held onto that broken guitar hoping to find a good use for it. Now I think I have. Thank you for this video!
7:25 "It's not pretty, but I don't care; I just want to have something that sounds good and plays well." A-MEN. Absolutely. And like, the home brew character makes it all the more appealing anyway, gives it some soul, even if it does look a little ragged.
Absolutely gorgeous sir, simply inspiring. I just pulled an acoustic learner guitar out of the trash room at my apartment building and your video has me all itching to convert it to a resonator. Thank you so much for this.
Somehow making this out of broken bits of guitars and a door seems much more genuine to the classic blues sound as opposed to say a $4000 Gretsch. This seems like something Robert Johnson would play.
Good job! I built a National(biscuit-type) last year, and picked up some parts to make a Dobro(spider-type) in the future. I picked up a couple tips here for the different type. Might help some of your viewers(maybe Tony above) to know that there's a little bit of difference. The biggest one being that the ring(soundwell on the biscuit) will be deeper and won't fit in the hole in the soundboard. I stacked a couple wood rings, and re-assembled them after I put them in the soundbox. Great job.
HiJack (haha get it)Thanks. It is easy for me. Been a contractor for 40 years. This was spur of the moment. Didn't give it much thought and I should have cleaned up the shop. Good luck to ya.
Finished another conversion of a cheap acoustic to resonator and it turned out great. I took the neck off, cut the heel a bit and then shimmed under the fingerboard (about 3/16" at the hole) and the action is perfect. It plays and sounds great, and doesn't look that shabby either.
+Jeff McDermott I sent you an email with a picture to your AOL address. I think it looks nice. Here's a tip I learned. If you drill holes in the wooden bridge inserts to lighten them (like some banjo bridges) it really improves the volume and response. If you drill them under each string so that it forces the vibrations from the string to take an indirect path to the spider it makes the tone richer.
I bought a cheap dobro and it ended up being a scam. The body was made out of disgusting composite wood and the dam thing was so quiet!! My 3/4 Cort 510 is at least twice as loud and it's half the size. I have an old Cort 850 ns and I'm going to do what you've showed in the video and use the resonator parts that came with the nasty composite wood one. Cheers for this, at least this way I'll feel like I got use out of this shitty situation.
Hey man! This is really great, your video! Your explanations are great. It's super, that you put it in a nutshell, short and easy to follow, enough explanations and instructions! Many thanx, GbY, Greetings from Duisburg in the Ruhrvalley in Germany.
Thanks for the video, i'm redoing an old Yamaha with neck disease. I had a super cheap, thin body electric resonator given to me and it had neck disease also. So, I've taken the guts out of it and putting it in the Yamaha. I've got a nut that raises the strings too high to fret so it can be slide only. I play lap steel so this should be fun; like a square neck. I'm glad I watched this because I hadn't counted on the dowel bracing.
Hey Robbie. I checked out some of your stuff. Real nice!!! I've been pickin for 50 years and still can't find the rhythm like you have. I just love to waste the evening with a home brew and my tunes, What year is your D35. I have a 1969 in perfect condition. A friend of mine bought it new but didn't like it because it was to big. He hardly ever played it. I just finished building him a custom 00 with 4.75 inch depth. Panama Rosewood with Adirondack top. I adjusted the bracing for extra bass. Got the martin plus 4 grand for the geetar. Probably the best deal I've ever gotten in 30 years of building guitars. Always wanted a Martin but couldn't afford a good one. Finally at 61 I get it!! That toneanator really does work great. It got that old Martin sounding fantastic!! I'd give you one if you were in Santa Cruz. Pick on brother Jeff By the way. I really am going to put on that 2nd story this summer!!!
+Larry Gates Hi. It's pretty easy but think things over. Use 3/4 inch plywood instead of the old banjo head I used. Also. Glue in an extra tail block behind the cone ring to the back of the guitar where the tail piece is. My first one buckled a little bit. Parts at stewmac.com., GOod luck!!!
That's really cool how you did that. Love the new sound also what a great hat you are wearing. Love them giants and love the blues. Thanks for the video.
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the video. Even though I'm not going to try it in observable future(cause I'm just a beginner in acoustic guitar), this is really intersting,edifying and somewhat positive video! Matt.
Thanks Tony. It's best if you can remove the neck and sand the bottom of the heel to get the tongue of the finger board to raise about a 1/16th to an eighth of an inch. Bolt on necks are a piece of cake. Also glue in a piece of wood at the underside of the soundboard from the round rim to the piece of wood joining the sides. The string tail piece has moved on me in the past.
Ha ha; man I'm sitting here laughing and wondering if I just saw what I saw. Great great job...nice sound on that resonator too. You should show us the second story on the house. I just loved this video; incredible job...I'm definitely going to try this one day!!
Hey Jeff Have you ever though of building a pedal dobro, I herd Zane King playing one the other day, best sounding machine I ever herd, If I can find some plans for the thing, I am going to try to build one, with some kind of plans it would make it lots easier, it was 3 pedal and tuned in the open E the song I herd him play was Amazing Grace and you win again, now I have to build one, just got to have it
Hi Randy. I have one of these set up for lap dobro. Added a piece to the bottom of the neck to get it a little higher off my leg. Amazing grace is one of my favorites to play. Along with Pony Boy by Allman bros. Good luck Thanks for watching
Good video! I have a couple of Bill Blue Liberty resonators (a square neck and a round neck) and didn't want to dismantle them to see how they were constructed but was always curious. I'm subscribed now so will be following your adventures. Thanks.
Nice job... I like the soundboard to back bracing you did, and I have an old Martin with a couple of holes in the soundboard-- I might give this a try! By the way, your flag is backwards-- whether horizontal or vertical, the star field should always be in the upper left.
Thanks William. Great to see younger people taking a good interest in building something like this. I got turned on to building guitars when I was 20. A guy was sanding the top of a guitar he built at a bluegrass festival camp ground. Doing stuff like this is real fun for an old guy!! Good Luck
Jeff McDermott hey Jeff, i'm 20 and have recently got into guitar building, i've made an acoustic guitar already and i have a guitar that's bust and plan to make a resonator out of it. What do you recommend using to make the resonator cone?
Charles Garner hi Charles Sorry I didn’t get back earlier. I didn’t see this. I use the straight edge to kind of eyeball the height of the strings in reference to the height of the nut which should be about quarter inch above the saddle slot on the spider bridge. I eyeball about a quarter inch and then adjust later after setup with the nut. Thanks Jeff
Hi Jeff. I have an old acoustic guitar that I'm going to convert into a resonator using your format. I found a kit from Tyler Mountain. Is that a good kit? Do you know anyone that has used this kit? What if you don't have a wooden circle from a Banjo?
Hey David. I checked out the Tyler kit. Looks pretty good for this approach. I like Beard cones but if you add up all the stuff from beard it would cost about 250.00. If you don't have a banjo rim (most people don't! haha) just cut out a circle from 3/4 plywood with a inside diameter about 5/8 inch under the diameter of the cone (10 1/2 cone cut to 9 7/8 inches). THen cut the outside diameter at 11 to 11 1/2 for gluing. Cut that inside as round as you can then you will have to route out the grove for the cone after it is glued to the guitar. Take your time and use common sense and it will work for ya. Thanks for watching. Keeps this old guy from getting bored at night. Jeff
+PlanCartesien HII ran out of banjo rims (haha). This was a spur of the moment thing. Didn't think it would be so popular. You can use 3/4 inch plywood. Cut the outside diameter at 11 - 1/2 inch. Cut your inner diameter at 9-7/8. Cut the inside as close to round as possible so that when you route it out with your 3/8 inset bit it will leave you about 10-5/8 for your 10-1/2 cone. Be sure to glue a piece of wood under the top side between the new rim and the heal block where the tail piece is. That is a weak spot.Thanks and good luck.Jeff
@@JeffMcDermott1perfect using D open tuning for slide playing. G open tuning give too tension and I doubt about neck stability at long term. So, D tuning with G open gauge strings works perfect. My work at: th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=biiwlwCEhTUH8D_A
@@JeffMcDermott1perfect using D open tuning for slide playing. G open tuning give too tension and I doubt about neck stability at long term. So, D tuning with G open gauge strings works perfect. My work at: th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=biiwlwCEhTUH8D_A
@@JeffMcDermott1@JeffMcDermott1 perfect using D open tuning for slide playing. G open tuning give too tension and I doubt about neck stability at long term. So, D tuning with G open gauge strings works perfect. My work at: th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=biiwlwCEhTUH8D_A
@@JeffMcDermott1 fantastic. For slide playing open G gauge strings works but I'm affraid about tension on neck at long term ... so, I've tuned as D open tuning with these open G strings, with less tension, and works fantastic. I need to adjust another bridge at right action hight for standard G open playing, but not done yet. Here you have my work, with sound smple at the end of video. th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.html
¿Hola Jeff, disculpa mi ignorancia pero se puede hacer lo mismo con una guitarra española con cuerdas de nylon? ¿Suena igual, o solo se realiza con una guitarra acustica? De ya gracias por su respuesta.
You might be able to but it might be a little tight getting the rim in the box. If you try this you can also use 3/4 inch plywood for the rim. Just cut the inside diameter 3/8 inch less than your cone. Good luck. No habla espanol!!
Hey Steve. Thanks for checkin this out. If you have a truss rod you can tighten it up and get a lot of the bow out. The place to tighten is at the top of the neck under a little screwed on plate. You may be able to remove the cone and unbolt the neck and and sand a little off starting at the smaller part of the heal and working up. Doesn't take much. Maybe a 32nd of an inch to zero. Don't remove any wood where the finger board meets the neck or you will screw up your scale. Hope this helps ya. Jeff
I love the sound of a dobro, which is why I clicked on this. A clear how-to presentation, good editing. Nicely played, at the end. A great dog.
Hope you are doing well.
Thankyou. Have a nice life
I have had this nice little Art & Lutherie Roadhouse parlor guitar. I used to love to play this little guitar in bed before falling asleep. I don't think my dogs liked it much, but it relaxed me. Anyway, one night I rolled over in my sleep and fell out of bed. right onto the face of this guitar. The top is now riddled with cracks, but the rest of the body and neck is fine. That was 5 or 6 years ago, and I've held onto that broken guitar hoping to find a good use for it. Now I think I have. Thank you for this video!
Extraordinari! Fantàstic! Felicitats! and Merry Christmas! :-) From Barcelona.
Thanks. Same to you from Santa Cruz. Ca.
7:25 "It's not pretty, but I don't care." "Sounds good, and plays well"
Musicians.
I like a pretty guitar but revamping a boneyard ax doesn't deserve a great look!! hahaha
You make it look purdy easy. And painless. No no cussin’ or cryin’... Very Impressive, -THX
Thanks Peter
7:25 "It's not pretty, but I don't care; I just want to have something that sounds good and plays well." A-MEN. Absolutely. And like, the home brew character makes it all the more appealing anyway, gives it some soul, even if it does look a little ragged.
Thanks a lot.
Absolutely gorgeous sir, simply inspiring. I just pulled an acoustic learner guitar out of the trash room at my apartment building and your video has me all itching to convert it to a resonator. Thank you so much for this.
Hi. Good luck. Look through some of the other posts. There are some good ideas on there.
Thanks
Jeff
How did it go?
"It's not pretty, but I don't care. I just want something that sounds good and plays good." I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Great job bro!!!
Thanks Bro.
Somehow making this out of broken bits of guitars and a door seems much more genuine to the classic blues sound as opposed to say a $4000 Gretsch. This seems like something Robert Johnson would play.
I like Robert Johnson. Think I met him at the music store the other day!!!!!!!!
The best video about building dobro on TH-cam! Thx, I really want one and your tutorial made some sides easy for me. Nice work!
Just watching you build this Dobro from scratch, and then playing a blues tune was just awesome! I'd sure like to gander at your second story though😅😅
So would my wife!!! hahahahahah.
You, Sir, are Fantastic. Thank you. Excellent, excellent tutorial.
Thanks Kristin. Have a nice day
Good job! I built a National(biscuit-type) last year, and picked up some parts to make a Dobro(spider-type) in the future. I picked up a couple tips here for the different type. Might help some of your viewers(maybe Tony above) to know that there's a little bit of difference. The biggest one being that the ring(soundwell on the biscuit) will be deeper and won't fit in the hole in the soundboard. I stacked a couple wood rings, and re-assembled them after I put them in the soundbox. Great job.
Nice job. You made it seem easy. Love that finger picked Delta blues style tune at the end
HiJack (haha get it)Thanks. It is easy for me. Been a contractor for 40 years. This was spur of the moment. Didn't give it much thought and I should have cleaned up the shop. Good luck to ya.
you sir are one cool dude!
You are a legend Jeff. You saved my dobro project!!!
HAHA!! Thanks Erin. HaVE FUN
amazing video. Thank you for taking the time to make this for us all.
That is totally bad ass! The pickin sounded great too! Great job!
Finished another conversion of a cheap acoustic to resonator and it turned out great. I took the neck off, cut the heel a bit and then shimmed under the fingerboard (about 3/16" at the hole) and the action is perfect. It plays and sounds great, and doesn't look that shabby either.
Howdy. I'm really glad to hear that. Enjoy your picking buddy.
+Jeff McDermott I sent you an email with a picture to your AOL address. I think it looks nice.
Here's a tip I learned. If you drill holes in the wooden bridge inserts to lighten them (like some banjo bridges) it really improves the volume and response. If you drill them under each string so that it forces the vibrations from the string to take an indirect path to the spider it makes the tone richer.
Hi. Try sending that again. I didn't get it. I'll try your trick. boxedinn@aol.com
+Jeff McDermott I just sent it again. Look in your Spam folder if you don't see it.
Sweet! loving that sound!
I did the same thing 25 years ago, took me a lot longer though! Great video, wish I had seen it back then, would have saved me a lot of time!
Thanks. Do it again!!! 25 years go fast!! Now your an old guy🤪👍🏻🤪👍🏻
@@JeffMcDermott1 Yep, 62 now. I don't feel it though, still a kid at heart! :)
@@yobrojoost9497 67 here!! Still feel 26 brother!!
@@JeffMcDermott1 Good on you, Jeff, you're my kind of guy! :)
Nice work - Thanks for sharing that with us!
I bought a cheap dobro and it ended up being a scam. The body was made out of disgusting composite wood and the dam thing was so quiet!! My 3/4 Cort 510 is at least twice as loud and it's half the size. I have an old Cort 850 ns and I'm going to do what you've showed in the video and use the resonator parts that came with the nasty composite wood one. Cheers for this, at least this way I'll feel like I got use out of this shitty situation.
Good luck bro. It's a fun project
What a day you're having. I'm jealous! Hope I get to spend my time building and fixing things as you do, someday.
Hey man!
This is really great, your video! Your explanations are great. It's super, that you put it in a nutshell, short and easy to follow, enough explanations and instructions!
Many thanx, GbY, Greetings from Duisburg in the Ruhrvalley in Germany.
Thanks Wolf. Greetings to from Santa cruz Ca. 👍🏻👍🏻
My jaw was agape! Well done. Inspires creativity. I could do that, now that you’ve shown me how.
Go for it Nemo
That's cool, man. I'm gonna have to try this.
Today though, I get to finish a cigar box guitar I've been putting together. Just got some emg's for it
Absolutely brilliant, awesome 😀
Very nice conversion.
Thanks for the video, i'm redoing an old Yamaha with neck disease. I had a super cheap, thin body electric resonator given to me and it had neck disease also. So, I've taken the guts out of it and putting it in the Yamaha. I've got a nut that raises the strings too high to fret so it can be slide only. I play lap steel so this should be fun; like a square neck. I'm glad I watched this because I hadn't counted on the dowel bracing.
Hi. Be sure to glue a block between the tail piece and the rim.
Thanks for watching.
Good luck.
Sounds beautiful!
Impressive. Awesome building skills and playing skills, Sir!
Thanks. Been at it for 50 years.
Great video. Wish I hadn't found it today as now I need to find a donor guitar.
It's a fun project. Get parts from stewmac.com. Good luck T👍🏻👍🏻
you are gold of this earth.
Brilliant tutorial, thanks man
thats great Jeff...thanks so much for sharing
great video mate, best home made one on youtube! going to try and make on of these, lets hope its half as good as yours!
wow man, what an afternoon you had!...lol.. thats very cool!!.. Thanks for sharing..
Hey Robbie. I checked out some of your stuff. Real nice!!! I've been pickin for 50 years and still can't find the rhythm like you have. I just love to waste the evening with a home brew and my tunes, What year is your D35. I have a 1969 in perfect condition. A friend of mine bought it new but didn't like it because it was to big. He hardly ever played it. I just finished building him a custom 00 with 4.75 inch depth. Panama Rosewood with Adirondack top. I adjusted the bracing for extra bass. Got the martin plus 4 grand for the geetar. Probably the best deal I've ever gotten in 30 years of building guitars. Always wanted a Martin but couldn't afford a good one. Finally at 61 I get it!!
That toneanator really does work great. It got that old Martin sounding fantastic!! I'd give you one if you were in Santa Cruz.
Pick on brother
Jeff
By the way. I really am going to put on that 2nd story this summer!!!
Great video Jeff, thanks!
Thanks Mark. Had major hand surgery so I made one of them into a lap dobro. No pickin for a few months.
Now that’s a cool project. Sounds great!
Thanks Brett
great idea and video thanks !
Thanks.
Brilliant....Thanks for sharing....Now I want to make one...
Go for it. Think it out. Thats the fun part. Read some of the other posts.
This guy is teaching good stuff lol. love it
THANKS Danny boy!!
You make it look so easy!
Great job, now I wanna build one!
+Larry Gates Hi. It's pretty easy but think things over. Use 3/4 inch plywood instead of the old banjo head I used. Also. Glue in an extra tail block behind the cone ring to the back of the guitar where the tail piece is. My first one buckled a little bit. Parts at stewmac.com., GOod luck!!!
Awesome! Thanks for showing!
You welcome. I made a cigar box geetar with a cone. Thanks
Good stuff!
Nice job dude
Thanks Pal. All in fun
Excellent!!!
That's really cool how you did that. Love the new sound also what a great hat you are wearing. Love them giants and love the blues. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Bro
Well done, Sir. This is what the internet was made for.
Thanks Jarrett. Check out my Toneanator video. Think you have to click on the videos section of this???
It will help your geetar.
Happy Holidays
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the video. Even though I'm not going to try it in observable future(cause I'm just a beginner in acoustic guitar), this is really intersting,edifying and somewhat positive video!
Matt.
Thanks Tony. It's best if you can remove the neck and sand the bottom of the heel to get the tongue of the finger board to raise about a 1/16th to an eighth of an inch. Bolt on necks are a piece of cake. Also glue in a piece of wood at the underside of the soundboard from the round rim to the piece of wood joining the sides. The string tail piece has moved on me in the past.
Thanks Jeff, .nice video.
Very nice! Do you, by chance, offer plans for the second story you added?
Wow, that looked pretty hard to make even with your great explanation!
jeff you are so cool man!!! congratulations from Buenos Aires...Saludos Viejo....
Saludos Vieho. Thanks
That's some top bodging right there! 👍
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Nice work
I want to do this with a Guitarron but I am nowhere near brave enough to try it. Someday perhaps. Thanks for sharing this video.
My pleasure Harry
Ha ha; man I'm sitting here laughing and wondering if I just saw what I saw. Great great job...nice sound on that resonator too. You should show us the second story on the house. I just loved this video; incredible job...I'm definitely going to try this one day!!
Thanks Craig. My wife would like to see that second story video too. hahahahahah
Hey Jeff Have you ever though of building a pedal dobro, I herd Zane King playing one the other day, best sounding machine I ever herd, If I can find some plans for the thing, I am going to try to build one, with some kind of plans it would make it lots easier, it was 3 pedal and tuned in the open E the song I herd him play was Amazing Grace and you win again, now I have to build one, just got to have it
Hi Randy. I have one of these set up for lap dobro. Added a piece to the bottom of the neck to get it a little higher off my leg. Amazing grace is one of my favorites to play. Along with Pony Boy by Allman bros.
Good luck
Thanks for watching
Thanks for the video Jeff! You seem like one cool dude.
Tell that to my Kids!!HAHAHAHa
You got it a metallic sound more sensitive than of pure wood.its like a diffuser ,when sound passes,it creates solid vibration and tremolo.
The dog said I ain't staying for the blues pal, you cry alone.
Shes into bluegrass!!! HAHA
This is incredible. I want to fly out and learn from you! I'll bring a few guitars, pieces & parts!
If your a 26 year hot bodied gal. Come on over. Haha. 🤣🏝👍
Excellent way of recycling, sir. :)
Good video! I have a couple of Bill Blue Liberty resonators (a square neck and a round neck) and didn't want to dismantle them to see how they were constructed but was always curious. I'm subscribed now so will be following your adventures.
Thanks.
Sounds pretty good. I prefer a smaller guitar body for a resonator but it's also cool like that.
I like smaller bodies to. Easier to handle. Had major hand surgery. Turned one of them into a lap steel..
I think it looks nice! I have a cheap guitar I want to try this on!
Nice. Even if you screw it up it's a fun project. Others have done it successfully.
Nice job... I like the soundboard to back bracing you did, and I have an old Martin with a couple of holes in the soundboard-- I might give this a try! By the way, your flag is backwards-- whether horizontal or vertical, the star field should always be in the upper left.
Scott Philbrick
Hi Scott. A lot of mentioned the flag. I didn’t know at the time but I know all about it now.
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Sweet tone, does it has a pricetag?
Cool great job!
This is awesome!!!!!
Thanks William. Great to see younger people taking a good interest in building something like this. I got turned on to building guitars when I was 20. A guy was sanding the top of a guitar he built at a bluegrass festival camp ground. Doing stuff like this is real fun for an old guy!! Good Luck
Jeff McDermott hey Jeff, i'm 20 and have recently got into guitar building, i've made an acoustic guitar already and i have a guitar that's bust and plan to make a resonator out of it. What do you recommend using to make the resonator cone?
Can you explain the reason for the straight edge,what are trying to measure???
Charles Garner hi Charles
Sorry I didn’t get back earlier. I didn’t see this. I use the straight edge to kind of eyeball the height of the strings in reference to the height of the nut which should be about quarter inch above the saddle slot on the spider bridge. I eyeball about a quarter inch and then adjust later after setup with the nut.
Thanks
Jeff
AWESOME.,.,nice video Jeff...
i want to build to, but the problem is where can we find Dobro Resonator??
can you help me??
Hi Konot
go to beardguitars.com. They are the best. About 50 bucks. You can get cheaper ones at stewmac.com.
Thanks for the nice comment
Jeff
woww.,.,thank you so much Jeff,.You really helped,.,I've been around to music stores in Bali but does anyone have a spider resonator.,.,
Nice job, man.. it's really cool.
as soon as you said, " bath", your pooch looked up at you with a "NOOOOOOOO" look in his eyes, hehe. @ 10:21
Hi Jeff. I have an old acoustic guitar that I'm going to convert into a resonator using your format. I found a kit from Tyler Mountain. Is that a good kit? Do you know anyone that has used this kit? What if you don't have a wooden circle from a Banjo?
Hey David. I checked out the Tyler kit. Looks pretty good for this approach. I like Beard cones but if you add up all the stuff from beard it would cost about 250.00. If you don't have a banjo rim (most people don't! haha) just cut out a circle from 3/4 plywood with a inside diameter about 5/8 inch under the diameter of the cone (10 1/2 cone cut to 9 7/8 inches). THen cut the outside diameter at 11 to 11 1/2 for gluing. Cut that inside as round as you can then you will have to route out the grove for the cone after it is glued to the guitar. Take your time and use common sense and it will work for ya.
Thanks for watching. Keeps this old guy from getting bored at night.
Jeff
That's all great and everything, but what if you don't have an old banjo rim handy?
+PlanCartesien HII ran out of banjo rims (haha). This was a spur of the moment thing. Didn't think it would be so popular. You can use 3/4 inch plywood. Cut the outside diameter at 11 - 1/2 inch. Cut your inner diameter at 9-7/8. Cut the inside as close to round as possible so that when you route it out with your 3/8 inset bit it will leave you about 10-5/8 for your 10-1/2 cone. Be sure to glue a piece of wood under the top side between the new rim and the heal block where the tail piece is. That is a weak spot.Thanks and good luck.Jeff
Great! Thanks!
just done my resophonic following your video. THANKS.
How did it turn out. Thanks
@@JeffMcDermott1perfect using D open tuning for slide playing. G open tuning give too tension and I doubt about neck stability at long term. So, D tuning with G open gauge strings works perfect. My work at:
th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=biiwlwCEhTUH8D_A
@@JeffMcDermott1perfect using D open tuning for slide playing. G open tuning give too tension and I doubt about neck stability at long term. So, D tuning with G open gauge strings works perfect. My work at:
th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=biiwlwCEhTUH8D_A
@@JeffMcDermott1@JeffMcDermott1 perfect using D open tuning for slide playing. G open tuning give too tension and I doubt about neck stability at long term. So, D tuning with G open gauge strings works perfect. My work at:
th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=biiwlwCEhTUH8D_A
@@JeffMcDermott1 fantastic. For slide playing open G gauge strings works but I'm affraid about tension on neck at long term ... so, I've tuned as D open tuning with these open G strings, with less tension, and works fantastic. I need to adjust another bridge at right action hight for standard G open playing, but not done yet. Here you have my work, with sound smple at the end of video. th-cam.com/video/2ixenUq8zrA/w-d-xo.html
hahaha!!! would love to come round for a few beers and a jam on your new second story
Come on over Tropics!!!!
Greer job man!
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Where did you get the middle piece is that made of aluminum or some kind of ten
stewmdac.com. It's a cone. Gives it the big sound! 😎😎😎
well Just dang Nice ! Good Job
Thanks Cuz.
Can we close the remaining part of the hole or does that make any difference to the sound ??
That hole adds a lot of tone. Thanks
Where did you get the resonator
stewmac.com. 👍🏻👍🏻🎶
2nd story might be falling down but the guitar is still kicking!
2nd story still there. Need repair. HAHA. Pick on!!
Hey, awesome job on the build. what is the song you're playing at the end ? I'm digging it !
+Sean Davies HowdyThat's just a jamb song. Thanks!!
Btw what can you do to make a banjo?!!! ;-)
¿Hola Jeff, disculpa mi ignorancia pero se puede hacer lo mismo con una guitarra española con cuerdas de nylon?
¿Suena igual, o solo se realiza con una guitarra acustica?
De ya gracias por su respuesta.
You might be able to but it might be a little tight getting the rim in the box. If you try this you can also use 3/4 inch plywood for the rim. Just cut the inside diameter 3/8 inch less than your cone.
Good luck. No habla espanol!!
Well done sir
Thanks Andre. Spur of the moment video. Should have cleaned the shop! HAHA
I'm sure you know this but you sir are a cool cool dude.
Thanks Chris. I don't think I'm cool but I'll accept the compliment. I do like to do cool stuff.
Great video Jeff--I loved everything but the hat--
HAHAHA! Thanks
I have a dobro guitar that has a neck problem that I'am thinking of resetting the neck not sure how hard it is to do.
Hey Steve. Thanks for checkin this out. If you have a truss rod you can tighten it up and get a lot of the bow out. The place to tighten is at the top of the neck under a little screwed on plate. You may be able to remove the cone and unbolt the neck and and sand a little off starting at the smaller part of the heal and working up. Doesn't take much. Maybe a 32nd of an inch to zero. Don't remove any wood where the finger board meets the neck or you will screw up your scale.
Hope this helps ya.
Jeff
Bravo complimenti italia
Grazie
I knew you were OK when I saw a Bosch jigsaw.
Gotta have good tools. No harbor fright stuff here
Wish you would not go so fast very good video.
Very cool
I'm thinkin about doin this with a 12-string someday when I have the time to do it.