Fretless Resonator Guitar

' The Globro' is my Galveston Resonator, purchased on ebay in 2003. For the first fretless conversion, I had the fingerboard removed and the 3/4 inch glass fingerboard applied directly to the neck wood, drastically reducing the structural support of the fingerboard/body joint. I toured with the globro extensively in Australia ( a small cover photo of me with the Globro appears in the March 2005 issue of Australian Guitarist Magazine ), Europe, and the United States. It appears in the first roadbot movie. It is fitted with a Highlander Pickup. I love it.

After many years of faithful service, the neck had begun to pull away from the body, making it virtually unplayable above the fifth fret. Luthier and general renaissance man Dave Boehlke was asked to upgrade the Globro for my recent move back home to Nashville TN; he was given the customary impossible deadline of 4 days. After removing the original 3/4 glass we sourced a piece of 1/8 inch T4 aircraft aluminum, which Dave machined into the proper fingerboard shape and attached it as the first layer of contact with the neck. To do this required first epoxying, then screwing the fingerboard into the metal body.
After this step was complete, a new 1/8 glass fingerboard was attached to the ulta-sturdy aluminum deck. The result is spectacular.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fretless guitar
• ned evett. joe satriani
• blues
• slide
• fretlessguitar

[lightninstrikes]

You made that resonator into an Indian Sarod

[NickleJ]

brilliant!

[guitarDouchebaggery]

amazing

the chromiest guitar ever!

[gaoyusi85]

holly-shit. 

[oreore1017]

汚すのが怖くてあんまり弾きたくないなこのギター

[tibothenr]

must be hard to clean ',:)

[Cystream]

Dave Boehlke has worked on so many of my guitars over the years. He takes on impossible jobs and delivers every time. So glad he's here in my backyard.

Now if those old Dobro makers only got an opportunity to see Ned play !

[theguitarczar]

Wow!

[superdude1525]

im lovin the hair, gotta admit

[MonsterRockstar2010]

THAT GUITAR just looks like what awesome-ness looks like LOL