dobro\tele hybrid.

[Billis Magoops]

I'm thinking of building one, just for fun. My question is, how hard is it to cut the back off the guitar. inch thick maybe, after I cut the hole for the dobro pan, I want to hollow out as much of the guts as I can. Any ideas, or input?

[Colt W. Knight]

Im not sure if I understand exactly what you are saying in your post. Do you want to take an existing tele and carve a place to put a resophonic cone? Doing this would make it extremely difficult install tele pickups. Do you just want it to look like a tele, but with a resophonic cone? Or do you want to merge the telecaster biting sound with the twang of dobro?
Colt

[BritishBluesBoy]

You mean something like this...??

Picture credit - RelicStrat (Thanks!)

[Jack Wells]

Here's one I did ................ and here's how I did it.

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/showgallery.php/cat/588

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[Billis Magoops]

yeah something like that. I need to hollow out the body some. Have to cut a hole for the cone, and remove a slab off the back to cut out some excess meat.

[Billis Magoops]

[QUOTE=jwells393]Here's one I did ................ and here's how I did it.

Details or how too's? i have alot of my own ideas here, but imput is always helpful. What kind of sounds do you get out of this thing?

[Jack Wells]

If you feel you need to hollow out more than the well for the cone you might want to build your own body from scratch............ or you could run a body through a thickness planer and take 1/4 inch off the back ............ then add a 1/4 inch back after you rout chambers. I don't think the additional chambers are worth the effort.

Details???............ Follow the link above.

Sounds???........... Resonator type sounds.

[reddogbass]

Dadgummit Jack! Everytime I see that Telenator I almost wet myself! Like as in going through puberty all over again. Stop- will ya? Absolutely gorgeous!