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Post by snakehips on Nov 19, 2023 22:22:49 GMT
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Post by snakehips on Nov 20, 2023 17:20:33 GMT
Hi again ! Shame, the guy in the video doesn't actually play any slide on the guitar - so I've no idea what it would sound like with a slide. It struck me though that the fairly bass-y tone might be similar to Muddy Waters' 1942 Library of Congress recordings guitar tone  So, I wonder if Muddy Waters was playing a reso guitar with a Schireson cone ?? Certainly, the guitar he is pictured with looks like something with a similar (but not exact) reso coverplate. Bottleneck John has a guitar with one of those Schireson cones in it, I think ?? What do YOU think, Johan ?? |
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Post by leeophonic on Nov 22, 2023 7:42:01 GMT
Just had one of these pass through the household and it has had a National cone conversion, I took it to a local luthier yesterday for some cosmetic considerations as it was previously stripped and in a sorry state but in it's own way a fantastic beater. Sound wise I like it, not unlike a wooden bodied NRP. I am only the courier for this as it is a friends guitar and he ants it to be given a little TLC. will try and see if I have any photos on my phone.
Regards
Lee
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Post by snakehips on Nov 22, 2023 12:38:45 GMT
My thread though was about how these Schireson cones sound.
And as the one you momentarily have has had a conversion to a National biscuit cone, it's not quite in the vein of what I was discussing entirely !
Good try though, ha ha !!
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Post by profscratchy on Dec 3, 2023 9:54:59 GMT
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Post by bonzo on Dec 3, 2023 10:24:09 GMT
Lovin' the luthier workshop outfit!
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Post by snakehips on Dec 3, 2023 16:33:38 GMT
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!
Doh !
There I am with your guitar, ha ha !!
I totally forgot about you buying one of those guitars, Prof !
Must have come over to yours some weekday, lunchtime or after work !!!
Must have been one of those legendary operating sessions !!
When was this, roughly ?
Do you still have that guitar ??
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Post by profscratchy on Dec 4, 2023 10:55:13 GMT
5th July 2012. Sold the guitar a couple of years ago!
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Post by snakehips on Dec 4, 2023 14:12:29 GMT
Thought I looked slimmer in those pics - that explains it !
Ha ha !
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Post by bonzo on Dec 4, 2023 15:23:14 GMT
And the the quiff hadn't realised its full potential!
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Post by snakehips on Dec 4, 2023 17:21:32 GMT
Oh yes it had !
I've had a big quiff since I was about 15yrs old - And I'm 52 now !!
The Prof has rather cruelly cropped off 90% of my quiff.
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 4, 2023 18:14:49 GMT
Gentlemen, please! ....While in that photo I do agree that Richard is sporting a fine suit and an impressive quiff, and I promise you this is not jealousy or envy, as while I am a conehead now, there was a time when I had more hair on my head than all the forum members put together. BUT.....this is not a sartorial forum, it a place of music and musical instruments. Please.....let's talk Shireson cones on this thread.  Now THIS is a quiff .... and it's a musical one!  Shine On Michael |
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Post by snakehips on Dec 4, 2023 18:50:07 GMT
Final comment then, as much as to prove that my quiff is very much still there, AND it’s a musical photo though, that includes National guitars : (Prof Scratchy on the left, playing a 1932 Polychrome Triolian, young Thomas Lucas on harmonica in the middle, and me on the right, playing my all-steel, 1930 National Style O, with a bluesy suit on and a quiff-tastic hair-do that I think even Little Richard would be proud to have (and it’s real, not a wig !). I’ll leave it at that, point taken, Michael ! Attachments:
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