My new Tony Francis Weissenborn

[Alan Hamley]

Thank you Tony very much for the valuable information. I wasn't aware of the book by Tom Noe and I will endevour get a copy to achieve a greater understanding on how the lap slide guitar design works.

Cheers

Alan

[Rob Anderlik]

Hi Everyone:

I recently received my new style 1 from Tony Francis and I shot a little video demo of Jerry Douglas' tune - A Tribute to Peador O'Donnell

http://youtu.be/XC_vEqYYgUo?hd=1

All in all I couldn't be happier. Tony really makes a great guitar!

[Alan Hamley]

Hey Rob, that guitar has been worth waiting for! Beautiful playing, beautiful guitar! Congratulations to you and to Tony for building such an class instrument.

Cheers

Alan

[James Williamson]

Very nice clip Rob, so glad you've got it in your hands now. It's only going to sound better and better as it ages...

[Ron Yarboro]

Thats some great playing, and the guitar sounds amazing.

ron

[Rob Anderlik]

Thanks Fellas, appreciate that!

[Mike Neer]

Very nice. Congratulations on the beautiful instrument.

[Jerry Desmet]

Very nice sound.

[Tony Francis]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

I wanted to talk a little about the inspiration for this guitar.

When Rob picked out the Koa wood for this instrument, it reminded me of a guitar that I love, A Ca.1927 Style 1 that I restored and sold to one of my favorite French musicians Flotis.

Although a simple Koa grain, it was almost a dead ringer for the Koa used in that wonderful old instrument. And so, the pattern from Flo's guitar became the master template.



Many thanks Rob - it has been an honor to build the guitar for you! And thanks for sharing the process - I hope everyone has enjoyed it!

Best,

Tony Francis

[Don Griffiths]

Just came across this post by chance searching you tube videos.Don't recall if I've ever heard any Weissenborns that sound that good,though I haven't heard many.. I have 2 sets of Koa back and sides,Full Mahogany set and a vague set of Weiss plans. You don't know how priceless it is for me to see the photo's of the top bracing on that. Hopefully I'll get around to starting these in 2013.

[Rob Anderlik]

Very cool Don. I'm glad that this was helpful to you. Be sure to keep us updated as you build your new guitars!

[James Williamson]

I think the discussion of nut height vs capos becomes moot if you go with something like the Marting Capo...I have one and love it on Weissenborns.

http://www.martingross.com/capo.htm

[George Noe]

I have finally pinpointed the location where Mrs. Weissenborn was playing her solid-neck guitar in the 1922 photo. It was in the Boyle Heights District at 1321 Warren Street, the home of August and Rosa Mayer. August Mayer became the bookkeeper for Weissenborn Company Ltd. The house was built in 1901 and recently came on the market. It is much modified (new roof and rooms added on), but if you look at on Google Earth you can see that it is the same house.

[John Mulligan]

What a great sounding guitar! Your playing is beautiful as well and the composition is also great! Home run! I never really appreciated the sound of a Weissenborn before, but ths one really got to me.

[James Williamson]

Wow George, that's impressive!!! How did you pinpoint it?

I know you didn't go neighborhood by neighborhood on Google Earth

[Former Member]

I just happened to see this clip, and thought of this thread. Check the beautiful tone of this "Fine" resophonic...AND the nut height!
My tricone has a dobro-height nut from NRP.
Is it the nut? the plastic picks? the wood body?
All of the above? --That makes this tri sound so good....
I'm going to get a lower nut!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esH4E21m ... 6E4AEEB703
Well now that I actually measured it..
It's 6/16ths from string height to FB.
A quarter inch would be 4/16ths. could there be a big difference??