Resonator-Stuff..!!!

    I truly love these wonderful instruments..

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Amistar tricone with a headstock modification, from solid to slotted head.. I like it!!!

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Amistar workshop in Prague. Lots of cool instruments there!

Amistar tricone Style 1, live in Germany.

 

 

 

Folks, just wanted to share this, my dreamguitar has landed! :o :D

It's a mid to late 1930's fiddle-edge Regal Dobro M-14 - The Leader.


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Amazing lustre! Beautifully shaped metal.. 8-)


It was really dull when I opened the box but after a lot of cleaning and polishing it's shining again, ready to dazzle audiences once more with it's cool appearence, lol..!!


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Weirdo spider, some fiddle-edges had these to fix intionation problems.. Cone is dented but it sounds amazing, with sick sustain, hehe... :)

 




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A whole bunch of mushrooms.. Finely crafted neck-stick, mahogany I think.



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Inside front.



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Inside back..



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This one will see a lot of action in blues venues from now on!
Got a new case for it..






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Stud tailpiece (from an early National tricone) will do the trick until the original has been repaired!!



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So simple engravings but yet so fine!! I like this pattern..


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Here it is in a S&R ad, costed a lot more than the porthole Dobro?


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Earth Hour 2010 - Acoustic blues and candle lights...

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Dobro ca. 1935!!

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Old engine blues..

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In standard tuning.

 

 


 

National Triolian 1930!!

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Tricone Style 3 , Lily-of-the-valley engraving.. 

It has a new and very cool "relicing" quite different from the relic finish on my Resolian!
This nickel has the "honest wear" from being played and loved/polished over 50 years, LoL!!! :mrgreen:

The engraving shows much better here than on a shiny polished nickel finish..

The finish and tone is great and the neck has the same profile as the Resolian, very much vintage specs, like a 30's National.. Awesome!!!

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Tricone Style 3 - Vintage vibes. 





It simply looks authentic.. Amazing..

 

 







 

 

 

 

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Looks really vintage and used, but it's brand new!

Absolutely wonderful to my eyes, but I like the worn and beat-up looks!! ;D

 

A video clip:

 


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Folks, here's an old Dobro from 1935!!




FINALLY I have found one of my dream guitars, a 1930’s Dobro (Regal-made)
It has the poinsettia cover plate that is not too common on these and I've been looking for years, now I’ve found one on eBay!! Laughing


Here is a picture of it from a Sears & Roebuck catalog..

 

Some pics showing the inside..




It was really beat up and dirty..

 



Two dead spiders on a spider bridge, haha!!

 

 








A short-legged spider!




Original 1930's Dobro cone.. In good shape!



Very nice old tuners!






I have seen this half neckstick on metal bodied Regal Dobro’s, but apparently they used this on their wood bodies too.









Interesting solution with a half neckstick..






Ebony(ized?) fretboard, mahogany neck.. Needs some binding..





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When I play an old instrument for the first time I use to think and wonder: 

Who played it the last time and when was it .. 
This one was played a long, long time ago ...

I LOVE it!!

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A video clip so y'all can hear this one!!!!

 




I made this ol'timey headstock myself.. 



Vintage vibes.. 

Black looks NICE!!!!!

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Reso-relic finish, looks like a polished nickel model that has been hidden in an old tool shed for 70 years, LoL!!!! This is the best "aging" I've seen on a steel body, looks very cool(to my eyes that is..)

Tuning: Open G & D










The tone is amazingly rich for the body size, easily compared to it's bigger brothers..
Volume is great too, looking forward very much to get this one along for a gig(will happen tomorrow..)

Gotta love rust...!!!

 

 

The Resolian live in Old Town, Stockholm, November 2009..


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I just got me a nice old FAUX-Reso on eBay.. ;D
So there's NO cone under the coverplate, usually a wooden-board or a metal plate with the bridge on top.. ::)

Just wanted y'all to see how a budget-BUDGET-reso was built like...


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Mid-30's, no-name, made by Harmony in Chicago..


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Solid birch body!! 

 





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AWESOME case came with it, croc-skin, haha!!
Been looking for a long time in Sweden for a vintage case like this and here it was!!

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Here's the fake reso"cone".. ::)

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But... Maybe I'll put this in there, LoL!!!!! :D

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And this... Gonna look great and sound SO much better....



Oops, more fake than I thought it was!!! Just awesome!!

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LmoL, there nothing at all under the coverplate, just silver paint on the top!!!!!! :P
Surprisingly cool tone though, looong sustain but less bass and low volume compared to any "real reso"..

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The coverplate is heavy, twice the weight of a standard coverplate...
(Could explain the awesome sustain, when this starts vibrating it'll never stop, hehe!!)

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I might put in a cone or keep it as it is, we'll see what happens!!!

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The Style 3 tricone on stage!

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Relaxin' the blues.. At a guitar clinic in Höganäs, Skåne! 

 

 

 

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"..Slide guitar is first about listening.. Then it's about feeling.. It's about how you can make your guitar sound more like a voice than wood and steel or bronze... Don't be afraid to play less, to work with your voice and with the silence between the notes. 

A lotta nothing is still nothing. A little something... now THAT's something!!.."

Resonatin' words of wisdom..

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 What a beautiful picture!!!! Thanks Michel for capturing the moment!!

 

 

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Here's some new pics from the 2006 WRA festival, photos by Karel Horácek.

Me and Ol'Rusty, my one-of-a-kind Amistar Crossroads model.. The vintage patina is outstanding on this one..!!!

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I attended a guitar workshop in Stockholm, teachers: Steve James and Del Rey!

He's one of my heroe's, was great fun to meet him and learn a few tricks..!!

Del Rey with a Ron Phillips parlor size resonator guitar!! Oh boy, she's a great player too!!!!

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Some new promotional photos.. A beautiful northern winter day!!!

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Dundee Blues Bonanza 2005!!

 

     From L-R: Bob Telford (the festival manager), BJ, Bob Hall(from Savoy Brown), Tam White (also an actor, was seen in the movie "Braveheart")

  This was a photo taken for the Dundee Newspaper, The Courier..

 

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A 1933-34 National Duolian, in a really nice beat-up, mega-worn(!) condition!!! Mine, mine, mine!! 

I've begun restoring it slightly.. Should be ready for some serious playing soon..!! 2006.

 

Finished!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BJ way out in the sticks... Camp Husku in the Jamtland mountains..

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