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- Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:19 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: 3 vihuelas I've built recently
- Replies: 3
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Re: 3 vihuelas I've built recently
Nice instruments! And long time no see, Jo - hope you're doing well?
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 6:27 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10475
Re: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
I haven't really looked at the electronics side. There's a bag of bits, but it doesn't have a battery compartment so I'm assuming it just relies on switching between piezo and humbucker. That at least I can sort myself though - the day job is more software than electronics, but a schematic on the sc...
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:47 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10475
Re: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
Thanks Peter. That was my initial thought about opening up the chambers. My thought after that though was that with having built loudspeakers, I know the bass response depends on a sealed box and any ports. Passages between the sound well and the fake sound hole wells will effectively become ports. ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:14 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10475
Re: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
Thanks Freeman. I hung out here a little about 10 years back, but a child and a divorce kind of stopped any further progress in the instrument building direction! Nice collection you've got there. I've got a National copy (Regal) myself already, so I'm pretty familiar with the basic care and feeding...
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:05 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10475
Reso-electric dobro kit - any improvements possible?
My partner just bought me this reso-electric kit, which is basically a cross between a dobro and a Les Paul. No idea which forum it fits into, but I'm going to guess here. http://www.guitarkitfabric.co.uk/Catalogue/diy-guitar-kits/diy-guitar-electrifusion-resonator-pawlonia The body and neck are ass...