Pre WWII Dobro Restoration

Описание: Pictures of a minor restoration on a Pre-WW II Dobro restoration. The tuners were falling apart (one gear fell off as the tuners were removed) and the buttons had deteriorated to the point where the buttons were disintegrating. They were replaced by Golden Age Tuners from Stewart MacDonald which were a perfect match. The neck was scrapped with a razor blade and buffed out with neck oil stain and came alive from the attention. There is no truss rod in the neck and it is amazingly straight and well made. This guitar has been played in through the decades and has a great feel to it. The frets while a bit worn were left completely as is and surprisingly play very well for an instrument that is 70+ years old without undue rattles or buzzing. The nut was replaced with a new bone unit and the old bridge was found to be two strips of indeterminate wood sitting atop two pieces of fret wire...go figure! These were replaced by two bone bridge saddles and both were buffed out after being fitted and then held in place with a couple of dabs of super glue. The Stamped/Lugged Resonator Cone, Spider, Cover Plate and Trapeze Bridge had the grunge of ages removed and were completely dis-assembled to do so. The Cover Plate had to be torqued a bit as it had previously been collapsed and the strings were sitting on it from this and a bad bridge saddle installation. The Stamped Cone has lugs and interestingly the #14 Spider is the long model where normally it would be expected to be the shorter version so as to sit atop the Cone's Lugs. It all appears to be original and there was no reason to suspect there had been any prior substitutions made. The dowel piece coming off the neck that is screwed into the block on the bottom is where the neck set is adjusted. The neck appears to be set in a dovetail joint but not glued, and the angle can be adjusted by shimming this screw connection of the neck dowel and body block. This one was pretty loose and once tightened the neck straightened out perfectly and the action couldn't have been better. It was Strung up with D'Adarrio's 80/12 Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings, Medium, 13-56. It is set up left handed for the owner and plays finger style and bottle-neck easily, the action feels like much lighter strings. The recording was done with a Nady RSM 8A Active Ribbon and a Groove Tubes GT-55 Large Condenser into a Tascam DP-008. Two passes were recorded, once with the guitar and a second with harp and vocal in my living room, there are no effects applied just a straight off recording. Bill Osborn is the musician and it is his guitar I did the work on. The song is Robert Johnson's Come On In My Kitchen. You can almost taste the MoJo that comes off this guitar.