Square neck Resonator/Dobro lap guitar

[Carl Dickinson]

I rebuild a Johnson resonator with a busted neck, doweled neck joint. I replaced it with a Martin 2nd that was mortise and tendon and set it up for fingerpicking not slide. I was lucky and got the neck angle right after one try because to work on it required removing the resonator with its numerous screws to get to the attachment bolts.
Beautiful work you got there, Herman.

[Will Reyer]

Ah, Herman, exquisite as usual. I admire your glue-up for a neck blank. I always use a center, contrasting color stripe a quarter-inch wide. The groove I need to rout for a double-action truss rod is this width, and it makes for easy centering. I do like the thin grace of yours, though.

I expect you need not worry about the soundboard thickness. You could use .25" Masonite and it wouldn't probably make much difference, as it's the spun aluminum cone that makes the noise in a resonator. And yeah, for sure, make me a sound file.

When you get it tuned up to concert pitch, if you lived across the pond in the Frozen North Midwest Rust Belt, you would probably reach into your mechanics socket wrench drawer for a long 13/16" spark plug socket to use as a slide. In reality this just probably indicates my advanced senility as even in 'Murika now our domestic cars use metrics, hah!

[Herman]

Carl and Will, thanks.
They use metrics in the US? And that now after 20 years I'm a bit used to the imperials. Except the fractions. They always seemed odd to me.

Here the progress:
The parts are ready in the rough. Now fine sanding and filling. As you can see the insert nuts (over here "rampa nuts") are in the neck.
Maybe this could be the first dovetail bolt-on neck in the world