reso-man@comcast.net wrote:
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> Hi List.....and you too Tommy!
>
> The "right way" vs the "wrong way", hey I dunno, if it WORKS....how can
it be the "wrong" way. Ok I'll concede *most* people do something a
certain way, but how can you tell Tut Taylor he's holding the bar wrong?
Or look up Bobby Koeffer, the great non-pedal steel guitarist on You Tube
sometime, and tell me he's holding the bar wrong......I don't think so!
For HIM, (Bobby holds the bar like Tut does sorta) but for Bobby and
Tut.....whatever they're doing is working just fine, thank you. Bobby
can block by just rolling his left hand in EITHER direction....geez!
>
> I just (survived).... came back from a wonderful extended weekend
picking party we have in these parts wayyyyy up north in Maine, (and
nope, I didn't bring home any Lobstahhh rubber bands), but I saw, and
played, a "home built" reso, that was the ROUGHEST thing I ever hope to
see!!! The "builder", a nice old fella named "Curley", simply sawed out
guitar shaped top and bottom outa whatever wood was available (tone
woods? Perish the thought!!!).....couldn't bend the sides ......so he
bent them out of metal, I think aluminum? I remember him telling me he
cut the spider from a metal stop sign.....and the coverplate was cut from
another piece of some sorta metal, with holes punched thru it.....no
attempt at any sort of pattern, just holes here and there......well you
can imagine....oh, and I remember the "screen holes"....they were made
from those little "cup things" that you find on sliding closet doors. He
did have a half decent cone he'd gotten somewhere, and took the neck from
> some guitar he'd picked up....etc. etc. etc. I also think he mentioned
a internal brace similar to what DeNeves have.....
>
> TRUST ME FOLKS, Paul Beard and Dick DeNeve don't have ANYTHING to worry
about from "Curley", but the funny thing......(Curley does know about
scale lengths, etc.)......the funny thing.....THIS GUITAR SOUNDED AND
PLAYED GREAT! The metal sides seemed to kinda give it a "old timey"
Duaolian kinda sound, to my old worn out ears anyways. It was a little
light on volume, but actually, I kinda woulda liked to have.......STOP IT
RICHIE.....YOU'VE GOT TOO MANY RESO'S ALREADY!!! (That was the voice of
reality folks)....... You would've had to seen this thing, really. I
wish I had a picture of it. I heard one of our fellow listers, mostly a
lurker, plans to record this guitar? Dan, you've GOT to let me hear the
results of this, I'm begging......
>
> So to conclude this, what IS "right"?
>
> Obviously, what's working for the "A Team" like Jerry, & Mike, and Uncle Phil, and all, is the way to go....or TRY to go.....if you are just starting out. But then again, these "A Team" fellas have already done their thing.....so if something is working really well for you.....then it can't be too awful wrong now, can it?
>
> Wishing I had "Curley's" homebuilt to take to Reso-Summit in Nov., to
confound Tom with, ummm.....if it was available, I'd sure try and make
room in the car for it, hmmmm? Hey, is this FUN or what???
>
> Richie
>
Howdy listers, this is the "lurker" Richie mentions above. The
home-built reso mentioned above is one of several made by our friend Curley
Green, 86 years young. He's got a metal bodied National buscuit cone rig with a
neck from an unknown source attached with an aluminum 'L' bracket and pan head
machine screws of the wrong size; he was given an old acoustic guitar that a
friend of his found at the dump, I think, and he gave it the road sign treatment
for a cover plate but that one's got a real spider and a stamped cone. Not much
to look at, but it plays fine.
Then there's Curley's Road Sign Masterpiece that Richie described. Curley is
a treasure himself, and loves dobro music, and he plays too, Oz style, and he's
way better at it than he would say he is. Goes to show that, well, ain't it
obvious? If I can get Curley to part with them for a day or two I'd love to get
them recorded and photographed to share with the troops.
Onward...Dan
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