Worlds Largest Resonator (?)looking for a new home

[pete1951]

What I believe to be the biggest reso ( I don’t have the dimensions of the Dobro basses made in the 30s) and probably the largest ‘Hot Plate ‘ cover plate needs a new shed to live in. It has an 18” spun aluminium cone ( ok it was the top of a boiler, but it is spun aluminium )
The build quality is was you might expect from someone making a joke instrument during a slack day at work.



(It’s the one on the left)


At the moment it is tuned to a sort of Dobro tuning down at octave ( it sounded better to pitch but I thought it might improve an octave down as the cone is so large- it doesn’t but another set of strings would double its value.

Free to good home ( ok happy for it to go to a bad one )

Collection from Cambridge

It has a Danelectro pickup, (Chinese) so is worth at least £30 for parts!

I think I did a video of it when I made it 5-10 years ago, might be on the forum somewhere.
Pete

[pete1951]

If this doesn’t find a new home by November 5th it’s going of the fire!

Pete

I will of coarse remove the pickup,m/heads and any plastic bits ( the metallic plastic cover plate was once a large convex mirror to help car drivers on a blind corner)

[bonzo]

Hi Pete. It is a kinda faux guitar so perhaps put it on the bonfire with a Guy Faux!

[Brad Bechtel]

I've shared this discussion on the Steel Guitar Forum. I hope it does find a new home, but my apartment in San Francisco is definitely not the place.

[alexkirtley]

Haha, If i can figure out a way to get it from cambridge that'll be coming up north with me