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Author:  LouisianaGrey [ Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:29 am ]
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As there's not much going on here, and to celebrate the fact that the image upload has been fixed, here's that odd-shaped reso now it's a bit more together.

Author:  LouisianaGrey [ Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:37 am ]
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Roundneck, Chris:



The cross-USA run was from New York to Los Angeles - down the east coast then across from Louisiana through Texas, Arizona and so on. I think we'll probably just tour the southwest for the next trip but someday I want to do a music-based journey down the east again, bluegrass to cajun via blues and country (geographically that is).

Author:  Mike Dotson [ Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:45 am ]
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Very cool pete, love the retro/Maybell style and
beautiful woods!

This is travel unit right? Going to have a p/u at all?

Author:  Don Williams [ Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:07 am ]
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That's Cool! I really like it. As Mike said, great woods and design both. Just fantastic!

Not to steal the thread, but.....

I think I may have my first commission for a squareneck. An old friend who dropped by on Saturday (Read the Near Fatal Accident thread) loved my all-maple one that I made a couple years back. He was so excited he was ready to place the order then and there. I should have let him...but I have other stuff going on at the moment.

Author:  LouisianaGrey [ Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:59 am ]
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You're right, Mike, it's a travel guitar with the 9 inch spider cone. I'll be fitting the usual Schatten pickup.

Author:  LouisianaGrey [ Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:00 pm ]
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... and it's finished at last!

Author:  LanceK [ Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:35 pm ]
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Dang thats nice!
I like the different looking resos, Matt Gage made a realy nice looking cut away reso a few years ago too.
Good stuff!

Author:  EBarajas [ Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:04 am ]
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Wow! Thats beautiful! How does it sound? how does it compare to standard shaped reso's? Can you give us a sound sample?

Author:  Mike Dotson [ Fri May 04, 2007 2:49 pm ]
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Brilliant as usual Pete. What a combo, a travel
'dobro' with a chicken-foot cover and Allen tailpiece!

Who's cone and spider are you using?

Author:  LouisianaGrey [ Sat May 26, 2007 2:51 am ]
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Sorry, guys, been a bit too budsy to do much web browsing lately. There's a sound clip at http://www.petewoodmanguitars.com/shared/BR_002.MP3, which I did as soon as I strung it up. It already sounded different the next day and that ring on the 1st string disappeared without my having to do anything. If it's like the others it will develop more depth of tone over the next couple of years.

It's a travel guitar so it uses a 9 inch dobro-style Quarterman mandolin cone - they don't sound like a full-sized dobro but it's still an interesting sound. In fact the squareneck version sounds a lot like an old tricone.

The spider is a mandolin spider from Paul Beard - they're not on the website but they still sell them. The bridge is offset so you have to think about the scale length a bit. I wish they'd make them with the bridge in the centre like the original Dobro ones.

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