Dobro, anyone?

[shaman]

something from "left field", as we say....

...a mid 30's Dobro/Dopyra Brothers resonator!!M-32,I think...a friend had the neck rebuilt, and we set it up lefty....mine now...can anyone hear those hellhounds on my trail??...any resonator friends out there??

[FernandoDuarte]

Cr@p!!!! I WANT!!!!!

[lulusg]

Nice find Shaman!! My father in law has a couple(not as fancy as that beauty), he takes it to those once a month bluegrass gigs. There are at least three guys that showup with Dobros, awesome players!!!, then there are the banjos, fiddle, bass, mandolin, acoustic guitars and singers. I really like that sound..... unique!!

[38thBeatle]

Excellent- I would dearly like to get a resonator one day-I just love the tone.

[AndyR]

Agh! (Can't see pictures at work)

But yeah, I'm a resonator friend. I seem to head more to National O styles than Dobro though (not that I can afford a real one).

I've got two "O style" copies:

One is made by Vintage that's four or five years old. It's OK, but the internal design means the biscuit bridge is somewhat taller/deeper than is desirable. This coupled with the cheap cone means it's a bit lacking in the bass department for me.

The other is made by Republic (Chinese I believe) got it a month or so back (there's a pic in this thread: http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13964.0). This one is very nice, and I actually preferred it's tone to a National that was in the same shop. It's got one of these "European" spun cones. I'm about to restring it with 15s or so in the next week or two, so we'll see what we see, but so far it's got that "old" resonator tone. It's only problem is very average tuners, but I'll fix that at some point.

The Vintage is tuned to E at the moment (it works better at E/A rather than D/G) but I don't tend to use that tuning a lot.

The Republic is tuned to G, I tried it on E and D, but it doesn't sound as good as G - but that might change with heavier strings.

Looking forward to seeing your pic when I get home.

"If today was christmas eve, and tomorrow christmas day..." :D

[blue]

wow! nice path! ;)



sweet guitar too.  holding something that old, which always holds an air of mystery, is always special.  what places has it been? who has it seen?  untold mojo in that machine.  best of luck with it, enjoy

[Elliot]

Nice Dobro - I would like one as well.  I use a fourth hand £20 Hohner Countryman from ebay for slide - perfect - very high action and no harmonic overtones to interfere with the sound of the slide.  Strung with 16s and tune to G - very death letter in tone.

[ToneMonkey]

I can't play one at all, but I'm helping a luthier with a prototype one.  It's going to be special  :lol:

He can be found at www.deltaresonatorguitars.co.uk His stuff is truely awesome.

[Ted 'N' Leo]

I've really wanted a 30s dobro or national after getting into Rory Gallagher!

So where did you get it?

[shaman]

Agh! (Can't see pictures at work)

But yeah, I'm a resonator friend. I seem to head more to National O styles than Dobro though (not that I can afford a real one).

I've got two "O style" copies:

One is made by Vintage that's four or five years old. It's OK, but the internal design means the biscuit bridge is somewhat taller/deeper than is desirable. This coupled with the cheap cone means it's a bit lacking in the bass department for me.

The other is made by Republic (Chinese I believe) got it a month or so back (there's a pic in this thread: http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13964.0). This one is very nice, and I actually preferred it's tone to a National that was in the same shop. It's got one of these "European" spun cones. I'm about to restring it with 15s or so in the next week or two, so we'll see what we see, but so far it's got that "old" resonator tone. It's only problem is very average tuners, but I'll fix that at some point.

The Vintage is tuned to E at the moment (it works better at E/A rather than D/G) but I don't tend to use that tuning a lot.

The Republic is tuned to G, I tried it on E and D, but it doesn't sound as good as G - but that might change with heavier strings.

Looking forward to seeing your pic when I get home.

"If today was christmas eve, and tomorrow christmas day..." :D

-great info..its so versatile with the different tuning/different string guage possibilities-cool thing about this one is...it takes both a bisquit AND a spider cone- :D

-found it via ebay-it was in horrid shape-the neck is almost totally new(2 graphite rods inserted and new fretboard..new tuning machines..)that kills some of the "originality" of it, but she was almost dead anyway, and we lefties can't be choosy!!!!

[AndyR]

I can see the pic now - nice one :D

[opprobrium_9]

They look bloody cool, but i don't think i have ever heard one :(

[guitarando]

I'm a lefty that has a metal body reso too.  It's a Regal single cone with a biscuit.  I put a national pickup in it & it works just fine.  The guitar you have is one to die for.  I also have square neck (lap style ) resonators too.  A Regal black lightning & an old 1938 Rickenbacher lap with the big magnetic wrap around horse shoe pickup.  That is a powerful pickup.

[Kilby]

All I can say is that that looks the business so much better when theyre not so shiney

I am assuming it looks even better in real life than the photo

[TheDev01dOne]

This thread really isn't helping me with the guilt I've got from buying another Esquire instead of a resonator..

I'd really like a Busker Delta, great guitars.. Ah well it will have to be my next purchase when I have some cash burning holes in my pockets again.

Beautiful guitar, for some reason it reminds me of those really old scuba diving helmets Lol