| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Wierd homebuilt guitars..... | | Date: | Thursday, July 5, 2007 17:45:40 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Hey Dan,
Thanks for backing me up with my description of "Curley's Roadsign Masterpiece".
Damn me for not taking my digital camera to Pelletier's party....what was I
thinking.....or not thinking, duhhhh? The list probably thinks I'm sipping from
the bottom half of Larue's glass.....um?
I've never heard Curley play, but I'll just bet he's more than proficient with
the old timey style of playing these things.
(Trust me folks, Curley bless his heart, looks like the farmer in a Norman
Rockwell painting.....true! In fact he probably IS the farmer........)
Now Dan, seeing as you live in Maine......what's the chance of getting us a
couple of road signs? I just think Curley might be onto something with his
sheet metal spiders. Like yourself Dan, I've had a lot of reso-guitars....(all
my Sho-Bros for starters) apart and I certainly know what a spider...or even a
#14 spider bridge looks like.
DAMNED IF I CAN FIGURE OUT HOW CURLEY HACKED A SPIDER OUT OF A METAL ROAD SIGN
THO??? And then bending the sides of the box from metal, cause he doesn't have
the tools or the know how to bend wood......geez. But Curley nailed the scale,
bridge placement, intonation and harmonics are all right on the
button.....amazingly.
You take a spider cut from a Maine metal road sign, and then use one of them
thick rubber bands so's you don't drop the bar.....wow! Look out all you "A
Team" dudes and dudettes, check your rear view mirrors, cause here comes.......geez
what would you call this?? Here comes confusion......yeah that kinda works.
Them "left coasters" is gonna think the "right coast" has broken free from
Vermont and is adrift in the North Atlantic......ya think??
Running from Tom Foote,
O;-) in N.H.
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From: "Dan" <onehoss@suscom-maine.net>
> reso-man@comcast.net wrote:
> >
> > 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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