The Steel Guitar Forum

I have a Black Widow liberty guitar. I would like to tinker with it to see if I could improve the tone and stop some small buzzing problems. The tone and sustain on the high DBG string seems OK, but the low strings lacks sustain and have a muffled sound.


It has a 10 1/2 inch spun resonator cone and a Spider Bridge but it’s not a Quarterman. The Nut is made of plastic and I am not sure what the bridge is made out of.

How hard is it to shape and cut the slots in the bridge and nut?

Since the cone is spun do I need to upgrade this to a Quarterman?

Also where is a good place to purchase parts besides Elderly?


I have the Paul Beard Video on repair and maintenance and he makes it look like I could do the work my self or should I just ship it off to somebody that knows what they are doing?

Thanks

Steve Schaefer

Hi.
Stewart McDonald catalog or stewmac.com has lots of reso parts.
Most good reso setups use a maple insert for the bridge, and a bone nut. Stewmac has the blanks. Buy 2, they are cheap.

If you are handy with little files and sandpaper, you can do this yourself.
Check out www.resonatorguitarist.com/

Ron