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    salvageluthier
    Dec 11, 2017

    Pet Bowl or Resonator cone for bass

    in Homemade Bass Guitar

    Question:

    Hello Charles, I'm planning on converting an Applause acoustic bass guitar to a resonator instrument to get more volume out of it. Possible cones are your 7" Thunder cone, a 7" (m.o.l.) stainless steel dog dish, or a 9" (m.o.l.) dog dish. I was wondering which you'd recommend. Would your Thunder cone stand up to the downward pressure of bass guitar strings?

    Thanks for your advice on this.

    Greg

    Answer:

    My 7” copper cone might have the strength to support it.

    I have a large dog bowl bass that I made and ultimately had to place a large dowel under the bowl to use as a support because the bowl would flex and I couldn’t keep it tuned. The dowel fixed the structural issue but took away the resonating cone sound. It did increase the volume slightly from a sound post perspective by driving the sound into the body of the instrument.

    Personally I would try the copper cone before I tried a pet bowl again.

    Thanks,

    Charles Atchison Folk Artisan/Salvage Luthier


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