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03-09-2016, 09:04 AM
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Are you a reso-prepper?
This came up last night. One dude has a spare cone/set of cones for each guitar, and an emergency backup for each type to boot! so three single cones, and two tris... Probably in a bunker... With 7 handwinding powered "green tuners"
I only have a spare single cuz I put a hot rod in... I'm apparently not going to survive the zombie apocalypse...  And yes those tuners exist. http://www.amazon.com/Fender-2399790.../dp/B003AYNUI2
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03-09-2016, 09:19 AM
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Mm, I thought I was OCD !
When I was gigging with a hard driving bluegrass band, I'd sometimes take a second dread in case I broke a sting (which i hardly ever did) Yes, always have spare strings, and minimum tools, and spare tuner batteries. That's about it.
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03-19-2016, 01:43 PM
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Just as a general tendency, resonator guitar players tend to be tinkerers to a greater degree than most guitarists who play standard acoustic. Every dedicated resonator player I've known has made a habit of getting into their instruments, taking them apart, adjusting what needs adjusting and putting them back together again.
The guy you're referring to, though, sounds as though he takes it to an extreme. Having just seen the film "10 Cloverfield Lane," which features three people trapped in a bunker together (excellent film, by the way,) now I know how the bad guy played by John Goodman could have made things worse: "Think this is bad now? Fine, you asked for it: now I'm going to take out my Dobro and play a really crappy version of 'Alabama Jubilee!!' " Wade Hampton Miller
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03-21-2016, 04:22 PM
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I haven't even taken the cover off mine yet out of curiosity... I guess I am not prepped.
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03-21-2016, 04:56 PM
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I took Bob Brozman's advice both in his book and online to never open up and mess with a reso unless absolutely necessary to avoid mystery buzzes and such. I appreciate that when he wrote that originally the only Nationals available were REAL Nationals, and it's not as big a deal to tinker with modern Nationals.
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03-21-2016, 05:45 PM
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Just re-thinking this, I used to have a Dobro with a Quarterman cone that seemed to need adjustments quite a lot - so,once or twice I took it apart and re-assembled it.
My current Dobro - Gibson made - in 1999 I think. It was a gift from a dying friend looked good,but sounded awful. They were/are made with significant intonation issues and appalling cones. Fortunately we have a reso tech luthier nearby who told me that Beard make a spider to correct the Gibson geometry, and they make great cones - so I got the kit and he fixed it. Nationals ? My Style "O" was perfection -but now gone. My Estrelita needed a minor set-up - is all.
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03-21-2016, 06:02 PM
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I've been playing old Nationals for a long time and I have never needed to replace a cone, with the exception of one that had been crushed and re-shaped prior to purchase but just wouldn't hold up under string tension.
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I guess I do stay "prepared"...by having multiple Nationals.
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