Went up Denmark Street thinking strats and teles, nothing I fancied, so I'm going to wait until the next shipment of Jap Fenders appears...
So I wandered into Vintage and Rare to see if the young lady really is as nice and as knowledgable as I remembered from the other week - and I bought another resonator! :roll:
Amazingly cheap for what it does (although of the 3 available it was the most expensive, I tried really hard to like the ones under £500 that are on the V & R website). I tried a National Delphi that was there for 3 times the amount, just to check, and thankfully I prefer this little beasty - phew! :lol:
It's a "Republic" Style-O "Reso-Relic", 14 fretter (neck joins body at 14th fret). I tried the 12 fretter but it didn't quite have the tone this one does (nor did the National, actually, which quite surprised me). The girl in the shop came up with it when we were trying to describe the tone (after I'd decided which one I wanted), she said "that one actually sounds old..."
It's got the bite you'd expect, but it has a more rounded body to the tone, more bottom end, so it's less prone to sounding "banjo-like". It has the single-cone resonator sound that I love but have never been able to reproduce with the one I have already (methinks I might want a recone in the old one...)
I also fell in love with the Dunlop slide she gave me to use, so she threw that in the case as well. But now I've got the geetar home, I've found that my old bottleneck really brings the tone out, and when I want more rasp/sting, my old piece of brass tube (which my first drummer got cut for me as a present in 1982!) gets the job done.
Very very tasty, very happy... :D
