The Resonator

[kuanjb]

Awesome! I shall be watching as I also have a resonator kit waiting to be built.

I'm curious how you'll do the piezo pickup. In my kit it came with an under saddle rod pickup but that will cover the central screw for adjusting the cone. Plus the under saddle will require drilling through the cone to route the wires. I'm leaning towards using a disc piezo under the cone myself.

Pot values and whether you use a preamp or stereo out are also a couple things to consider.

Good luck with the build!

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[FrankenWashie]

Awesome! I shall be watching as I also have a resonator kit waiting to be built.

I'm curious how you'll do the piezo pickup. In my kit it came with an under saddle rod pickup but that will cover the central screw for adjusting the cone. Plus the under saddle will require drilling through the cone to route the wires. I'm leaning towards using a disc piezo under the cone myself.

Pot values and whether you use a preamp or stereo out are also a couple things to consider.

Good luck with the build!

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Hi kuanjb,
Once you've got that cone tightened up to the spider, you shouldn't need to touch it.
As far as the wiring for the kit one goes, I ran the wiring across the spider leg closest to the control cavity and popped a 3mm hole into the very corner of the ledge the cone sits on to feed that little jack through.
Currently routing and filing out new holes in the body sides to house a fishman pre-amp and a battery case.

[kuanjb]

Hi kuanjb,
Once you've got that cone tightened up to the spider, you shouldn't need to touch it.
As far as the wiring for the kit one goes, I ran the wiring across the spider leg closest to the control cavity and popped a 3mm hole into the very corner of the ledge the cone sits on to feed that little jack through.
Currently routing and filing out new holes in the body sides to house a fishman pre-amp and a battery case.

Hmmmm. I thought you were supposed to adjust the cone tension with the strings on. That's why resonators have a split bridge right?

https://www.stewmac.com/How-To/Onlin...tar_Setup.html

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[FrankenWashie]

Did your kit actually come with a split bridge? I'll be filthy if it did. All I got was a 3mm wide strip of Ebony that sat loosely in the 1/8" bridge slot meant to hold it. I might experiment with gluing that bit to some hard maple i have lying around to get it fitting properly as it ain't gonna work the way it is.

I shall have to read that full article when I get closer to the noisy end of the build, thanks for the link. I forget that StewMac isn't just a tools and supplies resource sometimes.

Have you struck any of the other issues I raised? Be interesting to see.
Apologies for the Thread Jacking GreyFloyd, though it's kind of relevant??

[king casey]

Did your kit actually come with a split bridge? I'll be filthy if it did.

(Closes PBG web page, flings Ipad across the room).

cheers, Mark.