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Originally Posted by rockabilly69
On one of them, I actually preferred the tone of the stock cone over the National as this reso sounded great the day I got it. It was a Johnson knockoff of a National Style 0, and I think the stock cone was a Continental. That reso had a killer sound with stock cone. I've played many of these same resonators and none of them sounded similar. Mine was a freak of nature!
The original stock cone got crushed though and I had a National cone and biscuit lying around so I swapped the new parts in. This is the Johnson knockoff listen how the notes seems to swell https://www.soundclick.com/music/son...songID=6697257 |
The "trick" to those Continental cones is getting the set-up right. I have probably had my hands inside 800 or so of that style of guitar. Occasionally, one would come out of the factory sounding great - they all have that potential, they just need to be taken apart and re-built. You can tweak them to get a great tone. Scroll down here and have a listen to "Feelin Better Blues" in the video at the bottom of the page.
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