| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Weather and cone tension | | Date: | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 22:04:54 (-0800) | | From: | Richard DeNeve <richard_d13132 @.....com>
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--- Ben Wooten <ben_m_w@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Guys i hope im not out of line responding but
> you could possibly mark the screw with a permanant
> marker just to prove if the screw itself is moving
> over time .
> just make a line accross the top even with the
> inserts .
> If the screw isnt moving and you tighten it would
> there be a chance of bending your cone?
> Thanks
> Ben
Ben,
Richie tightens his tension screw about 2 quarter
turns after it hits the top of the spider insert
ridges. That is the lore that has been handed down.
That is where I used to tighten mine until, playing on
stage at a festival, the screw backed off during a
solo break. I had a screw driver in my case just
behind the curtain in back of us, and had it
readjusted before the next song began. Been using a
full turn ever since.
The screw provides a simple mechanical contact between
the spider and the center of the cone. The guitar
will lose volume and sound "funky" with no screw, and
rattle like the devil with a loose one.
I have seen the button in the center of the cone
pulled up to the bottom of the spider, when it finally
"tightened" like a nut on a bolt. And the central
part of the cone was enlarged because it was pulled
up, changing the diameter of the fold where the "bowl"
changes into the "bell." There is a slight tone
change when this is done, or when tension on the
"bell" is varied. On the other hand, One
well-respected reso mechanic I know used to change the
diameter of this fold by reshaping his cones over the
mouth of a coffee can (back when they were metal).
I doubt that JP Quarterman shipped any cones with a
spring on them, but offshore companies that buy them
can add the springs. A couple of years ago, he told
me that he has been shipping them with the word
"resocone," his registered trademark, stamped into the
little washer that holds the threaded gormmet in the
cone center.
Dick DeNeve
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