entry level resos?

[fitchmeister]

Ow do

Well you cone heads are rubbing off on this Parlour dude - if you were gonna have one Reso guitar - what style would you have. Single Cone, Tri cone, metal or wood body? I play blues and bluegrass mainly, with the occasional foray into folk. Tricones strike me as a more versatile instrument - and although i like the wooden body single cone sound there isnt much around in the 6-700 quid mark. Then again i had a go on a v nice single cone. I'm guessing the answer would be what ever i like the best, so many guitars so little time

Roj

[LouisianaGrey]

If you want the bluegrass sound you need a spider bridge single cone - nothing else will sound like it. I also play blues on mine, and folk, and acoustic rock too. On the other hand, nothing sounds like a tricone either. Let's face it, one reso just isn't enough.

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For bluegrass and folk, no contest, get a spider bridge (Dobro) style guitar. I find my single cone biscuit bridge reso way too harsh and biting for this sort of stuff, my spider bridge reso copes pretty well for blues. If you are spending £600-700 you could get both spider and a biscuit bridge resos. For your budget, personally I would put a tricone out of the equation (and don't go anywhere near that flashy-looking Ozark wood bodied tricone..the rest of the Ozarks are fine, but the sunburst wood body tricone is awful). I played mainly blues for two or three years on my spider-bridge, before drifitng over to playing old-timey country on it, and more recently putting together an old Regal biscuit bridge reso - and that's strictly for blues.