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Topic: Look at what I found inside my Dobro?? |
Papa Joe Pollick
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Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 5:51 pm |
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It's been unplayed for awhile and I was gonna restring and get it active again.When I picked it up I heard a rattle and found these wedges..They must have come loose frrom something,but what?
Any ideas what they are?? Help!!!!!
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Dave Thier
From:
Fairhope, Alabama, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 5:58 pm
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Tell us about your Dobro. I don't think I have anything like that in any of my resonators. I did find a dead cricket once though.
Dave |
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Richard Sevigny
From:
Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 6:03 pm
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I'm guessing some kind of bracing that's come unglued over the years... but I'm no reso expert 
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 7:03 pm
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That's what I first thought Richard,but there's no sign of glue on them.
I'm hoping that a reso expert will see this and get my old butt straightened out.I'm considering sending it to some one for a propper set-up.I'm totaly in the dark.. |
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David Venzke
From:
SE Michigan, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 9:40 pm
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If you stacked them one on top of the other and slid them "together" you would get an adjustable wedge brace. Maybe it was braced under the fingerboard extension (can't think of any other useful place to put something like that). Just a guess ...
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Todd Clinesmith
From:
Lone Rock Free State Oregon
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 10:36 pm
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If the neck is has a post thru the body, it may be a shim to achieve the correct support and neck angle. This is the way Dobro made them. They usually would mount screwed to a block inside the soundwell .
Hope that helps
Todd |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 14 Dec 2009 11:10 pm
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You're right Todd..The wedge is screwed in.Still don't see what the loose ones were for.
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Don McGregor
From:
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 4:05 am
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I'm not a resonator builder or repairman, but I am a wood worker, and these wedges could possibly have been temporary wedges used during assembly, and meant to be taken out before the cone was installed. For instance, perhaps they were gently driven in on either side of the rod to keep it centered? I also occasionally use shims similar to this to press pieces together while gluing.
Unless someone who knows can pin down what they are and a place they are supposed to be, I would figure they were probably just bits left over from the building process. |
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Don McGregor
From:
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 4:10 am
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| Is there any indentation on any of the angled sides of the wedges, where the grain looks like it has been compressed? If there so, this would indicate that it was driven in somewhere, and as the wood dried out, the wedge loosened and fell out. See if you can find any place where the wedges fit. |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 7:32 am
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I believe these are wedges that were accidentally left in. It looks like the same material that the neck block wedge was cut from. I have disassembled
quite a few dobros and I have not seen a wedge that large in any of them.
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Ron Simpson
From:
Illinois, USA
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 9:58 am
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| send all to Beard guitars and let do a complete setup etc for ya. cc |
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Gregg McKenna
From:
South Windsor, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 11:33 am
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Seeing that there was already a small block of wood under the neck pole screwed into the block in the soundwell, these shims were probably under the neck pole where it goes through the neck block at the front of the guitar (most likely because of a loose/sloppy fit. The shims were probably just friction fitted under or on the sides of the neck pole and helped align the neck during factory assembly.
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 12:02 pm
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By Jove Gregg,I think you got it right..There are no signs of wear or glue or anything to indicate contact with anything.Probably just loosened up and fell out..
Well CC I'm considering just exactly that..Problem is the cost.I'm about 3 steps below the poverty level.I'm forced to sell something before I can buy anything more costly than a set of strings..Ain't cryin',just statin'facts.
I sure want to thank all for your help and suggestions. |
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Gregg McKenna
From:
South Windsor, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 5:15 pm
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OMI Dobro necks are held to the body by the spline screw and 4 screws (under the position dots)holding the fretboard to the top. No glue on the neck to body. It's quite possible also the shims helped to cure a loose neck.
Can you move the neck some by pushing on it?
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 7:31 pm
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No Sir.The neck feels tight.
I probably should have mentioned earlier,that it's an 8 string.It appears that it was put together with parts on hand.Example,the tail piece is for a 12 string.And the slots for the strings had to be opened up to except new strings..Don't know what strings were on it from the factory..
The cover was installed twice,there are 2 different screw hole patterns.
I should have sent it back but I had already waited too long for it and didn't want to have to wait another month or more. |
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Gregg McKenna
From:
South Windsor, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2009 7:03 pm
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OMI commonly used the 12 string tailpiece on their 8 string models.
If it's the one with the 3 rods in the middle, it's a very solid tailpece.
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