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ilpenna - Posted - 05/26/2009: 01:34:56
Hi, i would want to build a wood body ukulele reso, but I understand that I would use for the thickness of the cone support.
For single cone guitars, which thicknesses are used to support?
Slideman1939 - Posted - 05/26/2009: 08:12:17
Slideman suggests: if you are usung the typical circular basket / sound well THAT becomes the cone support and is typically 1/4 thick and bent circular. OR you could use dowels as "soundposts" from the inside underside of the back up to the inside underside of a circular support "rim" that you glue to the underside of the top. This saves you from having to router a support rim in the thin top material.A well glued sopport rim could be thinner at 3/16th.I see on E Bay now that hardware reso vendors have uke kits with a small cone and spider and tailp[iece as a craftsmans kit and one could go as small as (one) cone of a tri-cone type at 6 inch diameter. Interesting project. Nowdays with the hardware options one can "resophonic" anything----example: Tut Taylor putting reso in a Weissenborn shaped instrument and inventing the Tutbro ( look up Tutbro on you-tube to see it and hear it).
