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Originally Posted by norseman
I'm just getting into this. I have a basic understanding of biscuits - which I guess connects the bridge to the cone or cones. Is that correct? In that context, what is an alligator biscuit? Thanks.
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Think of a biscuit style resonator as a National Style O type guitar. A piece of maple sitting on the top of a single concex cone and the strings run over the top of the maple. Alligator is just a model name, like
style O is a model name
A spider style, think dobro, has multiple metal legs sitting on the Edge of concave cone. So think of a speaker cone facing forward out of the guitar with a metal "spider" straddling the speaker and the strings running over the spiders back.
A tricone is three smaller convex cones with a three legged spider with one foot on each and the strings run across its back.