Spider reso weissenborn

Ferdinand van den Berg · Post by **Ferdinand van den Berg** » 6 Jul 2014 11:13 pm

I see what you mean, Xavier, the back has a very tight curve where the soundbox ends.
Did you do that for a special reason?

Mine looks like this:

Xavier Baron · Post by **Xavier Baron** » 6 Jul 2014 11:32 pm

Ferdinand van den Berg wrote: Did you do that for a special reason?

Yes, Ferdinandâ€¦ aesthetics

I wanted to build a guitar looking like the old National square necks tricones.

Just for me to remember that it's not a weissenborn, it's a resonator guitar

Mike Lewis, a pro luthier near Paris, does it:

http://www.fineresophonic.com/triplate4m.htm

The firs one I built was a tricone, with a less pronounced back bend

Xavier

Ferdinand van den Berg · Post by **Ferdinand van den Berg** » 6 Jul 2014 11:48 pm

Hi Xavier,

Thanks for sharing!

Xavier Baron · Post by **Xavier Baron** » 28 Jul 2014 3:35 am

Guys,

Some sound files:
Joe's tune, from ROB anderlik, in open d

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sey8p4xvstzcm ... 20tune.mp3

the same tune with the tricone (sorry, it was a quickie

)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3rv4cl3skrdss ... ricone.mp3

And some (slow) bluegrass, my arrangement of "eight more miles to Louisville, great song!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/465 ... sville.mp3