Martin Vazquez
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2020 1:00 pm |
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Offered for sale is an original Dobro resonator guitar made by the family that invented the genre back in 1928.
As seen in the headstock picture, it is serial number D 106 6, which dates it's creation to 1976.
I can safely say that this is the cleanest, best preserved OMI Dobro round neck offered on the market today. Part of the reason for this, I think, is that for many years, the bow in the neck prevented it from being played - the action was just too high to be fretted with your hand. And so, in the closet it sat. For evidence of this, see how clean the resonator cover is, free from scratches and beautiful. Look at the binding, unchipped, uncracked, not separated from the body. There are no cracks or significant scratches in the body at all! Considering it's age, I'd rate its condition as "excellent".
As for the sound, it's the perfect combination of a warm, woody acoustic guitar together with a funky, blusey, metallic edge that transports you to Mississippi delta blues, New Orleans traditional jazz, and Appalatian string pickin' all at once. A unique voice in a uniquely historical American instrument! You will not easily find another like this!
The restoration
In 2016, I comissioned Robert Stublebine, one of the Boston area's premier guitar restoration luthiers, to re-set the neck on this guitar. Robert did a marvelous job; I defy you to see any evidence that this was even done! But done it was, and the result is spectacular - a guitar that is a joy to play and to fret with ease with a 5/64 inch string height at the 12th fret. Robert also filed the nut slots and bridge, adjusted the cone tension, and did a thorough cleaning inside and out.
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