This here post originally appeared at http://www.luthierforum.com and as such is just a watered down copy and past.See dobro... 
Now for those of you who can't read between the lines, please look at this next pic and find the feeling no pain Padma ...
holding an oval aluminum roasting pan...that would be the body, yup an oval body`~ two of em, and the assortment of aluminum pie plates ....them the resonator, there is even a saw pierced silver dish from a lazie suzan that gonna make a fabulous cover plate. Now that dark round thing with all the slots in it is teflon coated...don't know what it was for originally, but she sure do ring nice when taped..yup a cover plate for sure....maybe paint the whole thing black and oft it to some heavy metal dude. The stick of wood in front is the neck and the cedar shingles gonna be the top....naw, best me use ply wood for top instead. All the hardware for this build me found at the Rev. Jim's Junk Store...ya know him collects and sells the junk to finance his soup kitchen for the homeless here in town.
Now the most expensive part of this here 2 intruments so far is the beer. $10.75 CDN.
This build is not on the top of me list of shop work...so do not a be 'specting regular posts....is more of a work on when other things are clamped up or for when me need a diversion from life.
Am me crazy...Yup. ~ But I ain't stupid. Well there may a few things I ain't figured out yet ...but the roof don't leak and I ate breakfast this morning so I ain't got much to complain about, you hearing what me saying?
Folk instruments for the common people who don't got no 9 to 5 and a fist full of dollars.
Dig it dude.
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Very cool Padma,
What's in the cardboard box? Coffee filters? ~ Lefty
Padma, Love it! Keep us updated! ~ David C.
Hey Padma,
Great beginning !
I like your attitude.
Wish I could get up the nerve to try it. blush.gif
We will all be watching.
~ Steve
Beer, Lefty, is beer in that brown box...well was beer in that brown box as me had consumed most of it by the time the pic was taken.
thanx for asking
Thanks Steve
He likes me attitude....wow, like, its me attitude that keeps gettin me in trouble.
Nerve...hmmm never thought of it as nerve....more of a "aw shift...just do it" kind of thing....and yup, guess theres me attitude....now if I could only mount a machine head on me attitude, why I'd be able to adjust it some what...wouldn't that be a blessing.
Think me like to get these dobro roasters finished by Xmass along with Gratitude. Me picker friends arn't holding their breath as they know better to be waitin for the Padma
but me see the classic signs...wide eyes, drooling, panting.
Any suggestions for connecting a stick to a can...as in options on neck joining to a parabolic curve. (The aluminum roaster, she be oval)
Seems to me to be a few options...bolt on....quick and dirty.
or
2 cut the roaster and ad a heel block to the neck, mortise slot the sides that slides onto the cut.
or
Do a dove tale into the roaster....Naw... a parabolic shoulder on a doves ass is too much to be bothered with.
Your suggestions and donations to Help the Padma figure it all out Fund, are most graciously welcome.
blessings,
the
elixerated
Padma
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Quick & dirty? Carve the neck so it touches only at the outer edge of the heel and hollow in the center. Then use bondo to fill in and give better contact to the metal bowl. Screw or bolt through from the inside. No need for a heel block if the metal is sturdy enough.
Greg
Yup,Greg, Quick and dirty she is gonna be alright.
Yahoooooooooo .....
me poked a hole into some birch ply.
cut and glued up some birch bracing.
cut a hole in an old pie plate and drilled the holes to mount the bridge cove which is one of the two handles from the roaster. Will add the sound holes tomorrow.
Me can hear it already.
Gotta go git some epoxy to glue down some kurfing for the top.
Don't ya just love it!
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Hey Padma
If you like the sound of this one it may be tough to duplicate.
Those parts look one-of-a-kind.
Guess that just means you need to keep creating and don't need to worry about going into production.
~ Steve
Perhaps others might get the big idea that it don't gotta come from Stewmac and cost a lotta dollars. I believe in instruments for them that don't got no fist full of $. or a 9 to 5. Music was always a tribal thing. Even if you plugged into a 1000wat Marshall. Roots were tribal...stick, string and gourd. Only we don't got no gourds in NA but we do have a huge daily crop of tin cans. Remember the cigar box guitars?
Kathleen n me, we played with a lotta cans a few years back. In fact, we put a neck on every type of can we could fish outta the recycling bin with a stick string and a magnet....scrounged for about 6 months. (maybe for the next batch of canjos, I invite Steve (slstexas) to go fishin with me). Don't need no bait, boat or fishin license .
The round cookie tin had the neck screwed on to the lid. Sonically it didn't cut it.
Here be some pics of the Canjos.
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There may be science, there may be formula, there may be mysticism -
But there ain't nothin' without imagination!
~ Eben
Sludge, if are you talking about that fine line?
Well me probably crossed it long ago.
epoxied in the kurfing last night.
me pulled out a tight grainded red cedar neck, blocked her up, and cut out a block of paduk for the fret board.
made a tail piece from an aluminum pie plate
and added some more holes to the lid.
Gonna go carve the neck after me get fed.
Santa is comming,
Yes he is.
So after feeding me went at the neck...came out like this.
Gonna butter her up with bondo and bolt her down just as Greg suggested.
Padukie on Red Cedar. Abalone at the 5 and 12th. Quick brushing of some plastic
stuff from the Wally store.
Did some embellishment on the tail piece.
Found some brass rings for sound ports.
Heel looks like this and is joined at about the 18th, runs back to about the 15th. A total of 22.
Same width as a strat. but 24.85 long and flat. Much fatter and "D" shaped. Slight cantilever on
the last 4 frets.
If I had some strings I'd be plucking her in another hour or so...but gonna hafta wait till
tomorrow or whenever the snow stops.
Gonna use a high set chunk of brass for the bridge.
Been thinking of using assorted tuners...just to add some funk...what do you think?
So there she be. Came together faster than I dreamed of.
Always wanted me a dobro. Every time me make one, some one else gets it. This one is mine.
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Padma,
What an imagination, what speed, what craftsmanship. What the heck?
I love it. Keep us posted.
~ Lefty
Padma, you should be doing Nike commercials
~ Dennis
Ummm Dennis....Sorry, me no get it. Whats a "nike"?
Lefty, Imagination, wow, gee I thought it was insanity, or just plan craziness.
Now regarding my speed...don't due them drugs no more....but mom always use to say "or move over" and me dad well him never talked much other than to say "just do it" We was county folk.
That only leaves my craftsmanship....to which I will add "watch out for slivers."
Ok, nuf joking around. True be... this is a fast and dirty build. Is called
the Padmas
"Single Point Meditation Technique"*
http://www.luthierforum.com/index.php?showtopic=3964&hl=Is real simple ...just stay focused even after the saw's turned off. But it ain't like its me first neck.
Me interested in her sound, not her looks, and about the only thing me can do to mess with the sound is try different pie plates for resonators. I mean like the body came ready made and, no me not gonna clean up the roasting pan. Thats gotta be 50 -60 years of built up greasy patina on there....Thats character!
Just think how many turkey dinners and beast of the flesh were offered up in that roaster for human consumption...yo dudes thats not just a dobro ya know...some woman fed a lota peoples outa that sacrificial pot consecrated inside the sacred alter of her stove, and well me gonna honour her efforts and our carnal lust for the flesh and makes music with her now....ummm you dudes gitting the just of were its at. Worship baby, clap your hands to the music, raise your voices up on high, let the spirit move thu you. Hallalulia, amen!
Sorry she not be for sale.
blessings
the
Padma
*For those of you interested in the Padmas "Single Point Meditation Technique" please feel free to
message the Padma directly or drop into one of me Meditation centers, soon coming to an area near you, and yes dealer inquiries are welcome.
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Well, it appears that Nike (the athletic shoe company) stole your dad's saying. "Just DO IT!" has become their slogan.
You appear to waste little time pondering the "what ifs", and proceed directly to the "here goes...", so you embody that spirit.
Dennis
here be pics of me resonator efforts.
Check out the tuners.
Neck came out too thick. Still gonna shave the neck more. Pull the frets, joint off a 1/4 inch from the fret board, refret, get a case of beer, change me name to Dr. Feel Gooder, and go at her.
Is heavy. Not quite as fuzzier buzzier as me would have liked...watching the junk shops / garage sale for the type of disposable pie plates from the 60 / 70s. Hard to find but the fuzzie buzzies suppost to be there according to the myths and legends of the long ago builders in these hills. When me find one I will repost.
Was after that "made way back in the hills" look...thinks me nailed it...just gotta watch out for
the silvers.
Still have the lid which is dome shaped...one day and with luck me find two of them pie plates...then...
All in all she works. Looks real funkie. Was a fun go around.
Don't ya just gotta love her!
You can hear her being played here.
http://luthiertube.com/mediadetails.php?key=8f67dc52440bdc74e7a7PS. was in Rev. Jims Junk Store yesterday and found another smaller oval aluminum roster...perfect for a mando and a uke resonator. Yay!
blessings
the
Padma
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