Some pictures from a trip to Tim Scheerhorn's workshop, outside Nashville, TN. Tim makes (in my humble opinion)the finest resophonic guitar available. Here he's tuning up my Jerry Douglas model Scheerhorn. For the uninitiated, the Gibson Guitar company makes a guitar under the Dobro trademark. It has the hallmark features of a resophonic guitar: a "mechanical speaker" that amplifies the sound using an aluminum speaker cone and a bridge mounted on a "spider" (sitting on the table, lower right) over the cone. Any other guitar that shares the same features, not manufactured by Gibson, is referred to a resophonic guitar. In this case, mine can be referred to a Scheerhorn, after it's maker.
It took a while, so I got to try out about every reso in the place while I waited! Beats drinking bad coffee and reading old magazines. I got to try out Phil Leadbetter's new one before he had a chance to.
Success.
Our good friend Dave Slik in Boylston, MA is a talented guy. A great musician, welder, auto restorer, chef, songwriter, and pumpkin carver. Of course he doesn't just cut pieces out, he literally carves the surface. This one is of our state of NH.'s (former) landmark, the old man of the mountain.
Another pumpkin, with the famous drawing from the "Old and In the Way" album.
