Here’s my 7-string Dobro recipe:
* a great inspiration from Mike Auldridge, Gary Morse, David Giegerich, Stacy Phillips and Joe Wilson music
* a $200 dobro from Aliexpress
* a spare set of dobro saddles from @beardguitars
* one banjo tuner from @desnevpavel
* 1 piece of bone for the nut
* 1 extra .030 string from D’Addario
And, of course, thanks SGF and ResoHangout members for all the information!
Location: Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
State/Province: California
Country: United States
Postby Mark Eaton »
Though I have never been a big fan of the stock Regal Black Lightning, the guitar is light years better than a $200 reso from Aliexpress. And it is a pretty respectable imported reso guitar - a lot of this is likely due to the fact that for many years it came equipped with a Quarterman cone. I'm not even sure if the model is still in production, when I googled they seem to be out of stock wherever I looked - but I know that the price when new has gone up in the past few years to around $700 here in the U.S. And they are fairly easy to find on the used market.
Vladimir, nice job on the conversion project. But if I were doing it I would change out the spider to the offset seven string version available from Beard's Resophonic Outfitters.
Paul Beard did not have these available for a number of years, but I have seen them back in stock lately.
Mark, thanks for the recommendation! I was just going to order the offset spider, but now I'm waiting for the right occasion, maybe I'll order a cover with a removable palm rest.
By the way, isn't this type of spider designed to adjust the scale on pre-war resophonics? Or is there some special spider specifically for 7- and 8-string guitars?
Mark Eaton wrote:
But if I were doing it I would change out the spider to the offset seven string version available from Beard's Resophonic Outfitters.
Paul Beard did not have these available for a number of years, but I have seen them back in stock lately.
