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PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:47 pm 
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Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
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I am soon to start a conversion of an acoustic guitar to a single cone ( dobro type) resonator guitar.
I see from other posts here that either a soundwell or an open box are possible methods of construction.
Is the quality of sound affected at all by using a sound well versus open box with support posts?
Is such a conversion viable, or are there reasons why an acoustic body cannot be converted to a resonator?
Many thanks in anticipation for your advice!

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:29 am 
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I can't really comment on the difference in sound, but I think a majority of builders build top models with open boxes and they sound excellent. I'm heard people describe it as a " more modern sound" or, as someone told me, "more open" :-) Which is just about useless.

And I can't really comment on a conversion either. But I think Tony Done has done conversions. He doesn't post here but does on the Google Group,alt.music.guitar.resonator. I haven't monitored that group much since my ISP dropped the newsgroups, but I just checked and I see Tony does still post there. Might want to post your question there or do a search.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.musi ... ?hl=en&lnk

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:28 am 
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Thanks Kent
I''ll check the alt.music.guitar.resonator group. I really want details how to do a converiosn - if it is possible.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:06 am 
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Now that I think about it, Tony's conversions may be biscuit bridge guitars, but the actual conversion concepts would be similar, just a different cone support for the most part.


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