The Ganja themed Recycled Resonators
These stemmed from an acquisition of back issues of Cannabis Culture and High Times magazines
I purchased from the importers just as they became an illegal import into Australia. (can you believe it?)
The first one I ever made was the classical with a 12 inch speaker and featuring the Dutch bikini godess
pictured below.
It has a rich and bassy yet bright and loud sound which is still one of the best sounding ones but it later
developed an annoyingly hard to locate buzz which ended up being one of the nuts coming loose that holds
in the speaker. (I will have to rebuild it one day and sort it out but I love playing it for the moment for the
strange distortion effect.
The second is made from a small steel string with an eight inch speaker and has a tight full tone which I
attribute to the high quality cone I got from a burned out Selenium driver. I'm really happy with how the
artwork for this one came out. It sat in the back of the Hemp Embassy in Nimbin wowsing tourists and
getting plucked occasionally. It also hung in the Happy High Herb shop where it eventually sold for $400
as an engagement present from a lovely English lass for her talented bluegrass pluckin' beau (had to give
them a good deal - so romantic!)
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Some panorama shots of the sides of the second ganja resonator - |
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The back- Bob imagining our present-
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Here is a pic of the very happy customer Steve at home in the U.K. who plays great bluegrass fingerpicking style so well suited
to the sound of this little beastie.
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The third is the best sounding cone so far (also a 12" in a classical guitar body) and, according to Nell, the
nicest looking one too. I have glued the speaker surround directly onto the top for this one, a more recent
innovation, (thanks the ever illuminating Graham the local speaker tech and all round wizard for the idea)
it works well and saves some weight. It was in the Happy High Herbs shop in Nimbin and got snapped up
recently to a lady from melbourne who bought it for her hubby. $530 posted in a hard case.... hmm, it
seems like a mighty good deal to me...Very happy customers I am assured.
The fourth one is a 12-string and is shown on the 12 string resonator page too in process and
I have now finished it and it was up for sale and in the shop for less than a week and went for $400.
Hardly knew what i had, only played it a few times briefly and it sounded incredible; something like
a banjo/harp/sitar/12-string. Seriously loud and great tonal variation. The very lucky
and stoked new owner is going to electrify it too...
The back;
and on the sides...
There is a glass fish bud sea...
and a micro landscape of trichromes, and who else but saint carlos santana next to a nice looking plant.
There is another one I recently finished (and have subsequently taken apart again to see if it can be improved,) which is
another hi-fi model sporting an eight inch woofer and a two inch tweeter.
It is a steel string and I am excited by the incredibly twangy tone which has some serious slide sizzle. Wish I could figure
out how to flip them upright with this program for you...might have to reload 'em. Seeking bigger bottoms/tougher laquer...
