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How to Convert Your Guitar Into a Dobro or Resonator
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2012
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when I first started playing guitar in the early 70's I asked the guy showing me how to play about Dobro
he said get me a butter knife with a plain handle, so I did and he tuned up my guitar and started playing it like one and it sounded great and I'm 58 and to this day I never forgot it
could never do it but was blown away by his skill
Enough with these ignorant comments. Thanks for this tutorial Jimmy!
There are alot of inflated egos on any guitar videos onUA-cam. Everyone thinks they are a master.
Thanks for the tip about possibly over stressing the bridge. I could have converted my old Ovation into a resonator, but it has had some previous bridge problems so I'll look for something cheap instead.Great licks at the end...inspirational.
I always wondered if there was a way of doing that with a regular guitar. I know this is an older video but I still want to say thank you for sharing your knowledge. That's the best thing about social media is people from all different walks of life can share their knowledge and experience with anyone who wishes to watch or read.
Here's hoping that 2021 is a lot better year than 2020.
Absolutely fantastic...Jimmy...thank you so much for doing this
Cool video of a neat money saving trick. All those attempting this please heed the warning at the end about extra tension. A talented and responsible posting. thanks
i don't really get the negative comments here. the title is unfortunate but how would you want him to title it "convert your guitar to get something that will enable you to practice for a future purchased dobro"- a little long winded. He is just giving newbies an idea to do just that and everyone knows it, you would have to be moronic if you didn't get that point; so why the comments? Is this your moment to shine because you know technically something about the resonator, congratulations- you are the smartest person ever to walk the face of the earth!
I guess you don't know the difference between slide guitar and dobro or resonator. Big difference.
Call a spade a spade. An acoustic lap style guitar is not all that unusual. That is what he has converted his guitar into. I converted a Yamaha to one nearly 50 years ago by the exact same method. I played it for several years until I bought a Kona Hawaiian Steel and later a Dobro. Kelly Joe Phelps plays one regularly. Yes, it is a great learner guitar for a musician who wants to try lap style without paying the cost for a resonator guitar.
Haters are haters because they can't come up with something on their own. Ignore the prats.
@@cowboy6591 There is a difference between information and hate or mean spirited criticism. All I offered was information. You would not want to call a Gibson a Fender would you. I was not born knowing what I wrote. Someone else either taught it to me, pointed out where I could learn it or I just picked it up a bit at a time over the 50 years I have been playing resonator guitars of various brands. Currently I own five, none of which is a Dobro.
A suggested title would be, "Set your guitar up to play lap style". I agree, raising the strings does not a dobro or resonator make. In fact I came here specifically to make this comment.
Before I bought a resonator I used a nut extender on an old guitar I didn't care anything about (doing this may warp the neck).
Nice video! I started out by using a pencil to raise the strings and eventually got one of these converters. Very handy but they do leave a small mark on the fingerboard and headstock. Like the instructor said, you have to be very careful about using heavy gauges on an acoustic that's not set up for that kind of pressure. You'll mess up the neck and top of the guitar.
Just picked a rather high action but good sounding guitar at the Good Will for $25 & now it's a Dobro enough guitar! Thx for tips on tuning, strings etc
Brilliant - thanks for the tips and info.
10 years later ! I always wondered how. Now with my non instrumental skill, but love for music, I can try something. 💖👍
when I started playing slide, back in the 80's in Buenos Aires, we used to slide a thin pen or something like that right before the second or third fret and tune accordingly. It was common folk knowledge back then, I guess the tradition has been lost. I still do it sometimes, since I own just the one acoustic.
Absolutely love it! Rock on, man!
Trust Jimmy Heffernan is one of the BEST teachers out there, and this vid will get u started to see if playing a Dobro is good for you. At this very moment, I've got a junker on my workbench set up this way that I plan to use to get a friend started.
I love what you are doing here! Thank you for this video!
Thanks mate. This video is just BRILLIANT. The idea of converting a acoustic in to a slide has saved me heaps of money. Cheers Pete.
@Douglas James ♪ Going really good. Thanks for all your help.
Thank you! Good information. Nut converter + .016 E + .018 B + .028 wound G.
This was amazingly informative. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this, omg love u
Cool. Thanks. I’m game. Several old guitars and I love Jerry Douglas.
Love this item. Thanks much.
wow this is very interesting...i have a acoustic electric yamaha... did not know i could do this... thanks a million man 😎🎼👍
I bought a different version of the lift thing once. it was taller, and had a wider string spread than the original nut. it was actually off the guitar a little on either side. After some bridge work, I got it to play much like a real dobro. Since the nut replacement lifted it higher than this one does, light strings on the high side were not a problem as much. it actually worked way better than I would have thought possible, but I also raised and widened how the strings set on the bridge. That made all the difference. Eventually, I converted it back and sold it, then converted another with a wider neck and wider string spacing to begin with.
Sounds good for Sure 🎸🎻
thanks for sharing. I am going to do this for sure
I got one to turn my oldest guitar (epiphone acoustic) into a lap guitar to play C6 - already having a guitar for standard and one that jumps around in open chords D, G, & C. Now I have a sort of lap steel for country or Hawaiian music (as if I could actually play Hawaiian music).
THAT WAS GREAT! Thanks so much
Excellent video.
I rescued a lovely old Harmony guitar that was destined for the skip, gave it some tlc, fitted a nut raiser and a soundhole pickup and she sounds absolutely gorgeous !
I did a video with it called "jus fishin man" in open G and I've just discovered Dobro tuning GBDGBD, So i'll be trying that out soon :0)
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
This is great playing, great teaching and accurate advice from a pro who knows what he's talking about. The only thing I'd add to the advice about using other than one's best, solid-wood guitar is to find a relatively inexpensive guitar with laminated wood. Often guitars that don't sound good for regular playing will surprise you with how great they sound for slide in open tuning. They will also hold up much better (under the stress of heavier strings and higher tunings) than solid wood guitars.
Great job in showing how someone who wants to learn Dobro can learn without having to spend money on a new dobro
Definitely going to look into ordering a guitar nut converter. They look to be $5-$10 or so, and to convert our cheap acoustic guitar into an Hawaiian guitar for $5 (and be able to convert it back without having to do any construction to the instrument) sounds like a pretty good deal :)
It's not a dobro. Yall should Google some and realize this dude doesnt know what hes talking about.
@@onlywhenprovoked he never said it was, what he probably wanted was for you to use your brain and see it's not a dobro, and something to practice on or use if you're in a pinch.
@@dominusanuli3595 its like saying let me show you how to turn your back yard into a professional sports arena, and then showing you how to play football in your backyard. Sure thats football But its never going to be a professional sports arena.
Youre playing slide on a guitar. Itll never ever be a dobro. You can also play slide on a violin and itll never be a dobro either. Get it yet?
If you started tuning on the high side it would stay in tune much better. The high strings are the high pressure side. Try it.
I put a blank high nut that i had in my old guitar stuff and raised my Seagull S6.. this was just a couple of weeks ago!!! I couldnt wait to get my dobro out of layaway!!
Sounds great bro❤️
This is truly amazing
man thank you very much, you saved mine guitar.glad i watched the end.i was allready thinking of converting one fender into that dobro thing.
That dobro thing??? Really?
amazing information man, want to learn
that nut converter is brilliant, I have an old 1972 FG-160 yamaha sitting around and I though "Search convert acoustic guitar into a dobro"...and here I am. Nice.
I saw the nut riser on a guitar and thought It was a good idea. I used an old 12 string guitar I bought for 5 bucks. The neck was wide so it made it easier to play with the bar. I believe that I'm not trying to make a real Dobro but a training instrument until I can learn how to play
Really lovely.. Keep it up sir🙋
this is great, thank you so much!
Install a Bridge doctor if your going to use one of your top acoustics for this. And detune a half step when not in use and it will be fine.
That sounded really really nice.. Could have listened to a lot more of that.
It sounds good. Great video.
Fantastic thanks so much
Thank you. i 'd like to toy with steel/Hawaiian guitar and this is pretty cool.
Thanks for the video man I love those Rifts are playing I just copped em. Thought you were tuning to open G which led me to believe the bottom string would have been D. But I think you went GBDGBD right? That actually spreads it out a little more evenly for me and makes the bottom note the tonic I'm digging it thank you!
GBDGBD is Dobro tuning
Super cool video! Thanks
That dreadnought guitar with the nut riser has a sound not too much unlike a modern open soundwell dobro like a Beard E model. Jimmy, took lessons from you during a weekend seninar in Burnsville MN in early 2000’s. I had a blue dobro that you might remember 😄
I put a cheap amazon tailpiece on my old Yamaha to take the pressure off the bridge and top. The plus is that the tailpiece rings like crazy. Sounds blue-grassy.
This guy is great. I've never heard of the Dobro style before but it seems very interesting to me.
Dobro is a brand,not a style.The style is slide guitar.
Dobro was a brand name that became the name for the acoustic instrument. Like the pedal steel guitar, and yeah like slide guitar but much higher action
very knowledgeable thank you
This adaptation does mimic that haunting slide guitar dobro sound... maybe not the deep outback bayou, but some 'shine' around a campfire could do wonders to distort perception.
Think I would try adapting one of those wire frame tail pieces found on old arch top F hole guitars to preserve the bridge from the heavier string tension that might pull it up from the top, maybe even add a taller bone bridge saddle... all for longevity.
For the budget minded... all this can be found on Amazon.
If your slide playing doesn't work out, the guitar can still be reverted back to original design.
Great idea and advice. I made a "banjo" outta my $100 acoustic camping guitar by taking off the low E, replacing the 5th w a used b string and tuning to open "G", sounds plenty good enough to practice any see if ur interest warrants some big bucks. Dobro, Banjo or a guitar... all n one cheap acoustic instrument.
Thanks man, I have an old guitar lying around, and really wanna start playing dobro.
Dobro is a brand name not a style.
@@davidwhite5845 👍🫡
Don’t get triggered, David, but yeah it’s definitely called a dobro and just Google why and how that happened.
Is there something else you want everyone to call it?
Well big thanks ! I really cant upload a photo of my guitar but i actualy used THE BOLT IDEA ! thanks ! Its awsome .
Great video....thank you.
That Luna sounds pretty good!
Thanks Jimmy!! You sure made that Dreadnought sound great!!
L0VE IT!!! Thank You...
Of course everyone does it their own way, but .... the idea of a heavy bar (in my opinion) is so you don't HAVE to press down. The weight of the bar resonates wonderfully all by it's lonesome. I use a bar on my Epi Wildkat, and I use 009's and leave the action way down low so I can still rock it like a madman when I'm less than blue. True, it took a while to get the finesse, but nothing easy is worth having. 2 cents from Windy Nebraska! SOUNDS GREAT BY THE WAY!
You have a mighty good sound coming out of a flat top ,
Many thanks. Very useful
whats the name of that metal thing you put on the guitar? (not the slide)
Great info
I use a similar setup with a "beater" acoustic but always use a "slack" tuning, usually D. Have you ever lifted a bridge with the Dobro GBDGBD? Would like to learn some bluegrass. Thanks, Doug
Cool im gonna try this myself
I had a dobro. Problem is my voice is deep bass range and I have a baritone tuned down to A. Dobro didn't tune down that low. So I put one of these on my baritone and it sounds great.
Awesome, more pleae!!!
The stevens slide and the real dobro made all the difference!!!
That is a great tuner.
Hello!... great job!... please tell me where I can Buy this tusq to raise The strings... And whats the real name for that. Thanks!...
i'm gonna try this .
Thanx for the great Vid I plan on checkin out your site.
WHERE can I get the nut cioverter??
Have you not heard of the Dunlop Capo/Slide Converter? It raises the strings two optional heights in an instant at any fret and restores the guitar to its original setting just as quick and easy. Check it out, it works!!! A revelation!!
You can't use Dunlop capo slide convertor on 0th fret
I would use GHS lapsteel strings which I find work wonderful
De tune those top strings when done playing and bridge should be ok.
I love this music and the musicians who played this strument....dobro acoustic pedal steel lap steel etc.etc.I'm Italian sardo...I have difficoulttie to listen this music in the seventies and eighties.But thank tihs musicians today I listen this music all music with slide and I dream.We nomination this musica music of dreams.Because that music is my freedom.Thank for that video.And thanks all the musicians play that music
You have more "difficoulttie" putting together coherent phrases!
It work great
nice, i have a old 12 string i am going to try this on. it also gives me wider string spacing than normal 6 string
I love using old 12's also. You can find 70's takamine's fairly cheaply that sound great. Plus the necks are stronger!
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Any open tunings sound great for blues or playing slide guitar.
muy bueno ese sonido!!!!!
Actually, I live the sound of the slide hitting the fret marker. Gives it a more ‘natural’ feel, akin to hearing finger-squeak when changing chords on an acoustic.
I like this dude...
Genius!
I like this guy.
Been there done that Jimmy... fun thing ...
thanks
This man has no fear to tune a guitar.
Those are safety glasses.
@@dougjohnson9948 But still man, high e string just scary af, and he tuned up, you know what I’m saying?
@@agungwayne3090 I know. I wince every time I tune..
@@agungwayne3090 occasionally I have broken strings tuning DOWN, I have no idea how that happens so I am always on edge whatever I do with my pegs
@@agungwayne3090 That high E string was tuned down to D, too.
is there no need to raise the action of the bridge?
Why do you tune your strings up for open g tuning? I tune down. I tune to D,G,d,g,b,d. I'm wondering if this tuning does something special for the sound.
What is that mic you're using?...sounds great!!!
nuemann km84 or something?
He is like Bob Ross but with a guitar
No
He is like Bob Ross with a guitar without the Bob Ross.
Rather than buy a heavier set of strings and only using the top three, can you use for example a B string from a light set as your E string, etc?
I need more do bro
I thought you would have to do something to the bridge and saddle height....cool.
This is a good lesson on how to...!
Is this tuning good for Hawaiian surf music?
Great thing about this is that the quality of the guitar really doesn't matter all that much. Great thing to do with that old clunker you have back in the closet. That is a Grover nut extender by the way. It will probably be a bit wider than the nut you have on your guitar. That is ok, since you won't be fretting the notes. Just make sure it is even in relation to the neck.
thank mr...
where can you get the nut converter at???? im in need to learn dobro PLEASE HELP ASAP
This is a great idea for an acoustic lapsteel but it is not a dobro or resonator at all. Still, a great idea to get started.