The "wizard of the resos"

[pascal]

I didn't do anything to such an instrument!
After buying this to e-bay from U.S, I had problem with the French delivery of this old Regal Dobro.
Just I want to share with you the genius and skill of Mike Lewis (Fine-Resophonic guitars) who repaired it this month.

It is a Regal ("8 lug") 1933, Chicago made under licence of Dobro.
Exactly the same as "Bashfull brother Oswald" had during his long career, 50 years, for the "Grand Ole Opry".

Mike had change the original damaged roundneck for a new squareneck, and has find the original sunburst color.
Sound of this Dobro is unique! Very sweet and it's going to be my new workhorse for shows, considering to carry my old squareneck National triplate too risky (and too heavy).
This one sings like an angel.
Oswald's nickname for his guitar was "Herman", mine is going to be "Phoenix".
Hope you appreciate...

[thebluesbear( al)]

this is truly amazing there is nothing more to be said

al

[Michael Messer]

It is beautiful Pascal. If it is anything like Oswald's Dobro, which I have played, it will be a superb guitar. In addition to that - it has been in the hands of THE LORD OF THE RESONATOR ;D

It is an amazing restoration. Mike is THE best.

I am jealous - I love old Dobros!!!!!

Shine On
Michael

[pascal]

Many thanks for the "Lord of the reso" and me Michael. No don't be jealous...
Yes, I am sure it is the same as Kirby played! (see the pic) and here is the history:

"The Dobro that Oswald counted on was a model 27 made in Chicago by the Regal company which began producing Dobro instruments under license in 1933. It's a wood-bodied, two-tone sunburst with a single resonator plate and a round neck (as opposed to a Hawaiian-style square neck) with 12 frets clear of the body. One key to its identity is the lack of three small holes in the top, near the neck joint. Many Dobros had them, but the model 27s (from either manufacturer) did not. The birch Model 27 proved Dobro's biggest seller and remained popular through the decades. This was the model played on the Grand Ole' Opry in the post-war years by both Bashful Brother Oswald and Josh Graves. In the '70s, Jerry Douglas made his mark playing a Regal-built Model 27. Modern dealers and collectors usually identify a Model 27 as having binding on the top only, but rare early examples had no binding at all and most Regal-made Model 27s were bound top and back. The true identifying mark of a Model 27 is its lack of the three holes under the strings between the screenholes, an economy suggested by Regal and adopted by Dobro (Regal apparently never liked bothering with the three holes and even on high-end models never beveled the edges, as Dobro did). Many players hold that omitting the three holes improved the sound of the Model 27."

I am a bit sad, I now own all the guitars I have been dreaming in my whole life!