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grant wickland - Posted - 03/11/2010: 20:34:40
I am building a brass bodied resonator guitar with a National body profile without plans. The body just came back from being nickel plated and looks great and I need advice on the neck to body angle...I am thinking about 1/2 degree off vertical but I don't have enough information about how that angle effects string pressure on the biscuit bridge and resulting sound. Any advice would be helpful.
grant wickland - Posted - 03/12/2010: 17:52:00
So I plunged ahead, reasoned out a neck angle of just over 1 degree and assembled my new resonator and am attaching a couple of pictures. Now I have to learn to play it. The neck is two piece Eastern Maple with ebony fretboard, peg head, peg back and heel and the body is .032" 260 brass polished, double copper plated and then nickel plated. I made three bodies at first and will make the black Walnut necks and dowel sticks for the other two in the next few days.The body is 3 5/8" deep and so far the reviews are good.
It sounds great!
Square Neck - Posted - 03/12/2010: 18:25:11
Welcome
Killer looking guitar,Great job!
Thanks for posting the pictures, not a lot of home built metal bodys out there..cool to see one done that nice....looks pro to me
You should post it over here they will love it!
guitarseminars.com/gs/viewforu...2da74974d
Big biscuit reso fans over there as well....a lot more round neckers also..
6stringTom - Posted - 03/13/2010: 19:22:44
That is one beautiful metal body.
jonomakepeace - Posted - 04/26/2010: 08:30:32
Hey Grant.
I am toying with the idea of building my own reso, body out of mild steel. How did you stick it together? I thought of getting it T.I.G welded locally, as I have no clue...
Great looking guitar!
Thanks!
grant wickland - Posted - 05/23/2010: 09:17:17
Hey Jono I used 50/50 solder and cleaned and pretinned all mating surfaces of the 20 gage 260 brass. I just used a touch of heat from a propane torch to solder randomly about an inch here and there to keep the brass from warping and when the joint was secure I went back and filled the joint flush. Cheers Grant
Freeman - Posted - 05/24/2010: 09:37:20
Grant, looks great. The neck angle is really determined by all the rest of the geometry - how deep is your soundwell, is the top flat or domed - I kind of went thru the same thing when I built my tricone, but with either a neck stick or a bolt on you can make final adjustments (setting) as you do the final assembly. I know it is kind of late for this, but the StewMac plans for their brass bodied reso kit (no longer sold) does show setting the neck angle relative to the biscuit.
fwiw there is a great series of threads in the archives at MIMF.com showing the construction of a tricone in very great detail. He shows all the different bucks for bending and forming the parts, notching the edges, soldering everything together, prep for plating, etc. You need to be a member of MIMF to access them - I could probably forward the link off forum if someone want to email me.
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