This is the old parts from the my guitar, the body and cone and other pieces. The old neck was clunky and we decided to build it more like one of Joe's resonator necks. So a few changes were made to where the neck inserts into the body.

My guitar is around a 2004 Gibson DWF60 Dobro round neck, not a Hound Dog. It had been repaired before I bought it and one day I changed the strings and it broke from the tension. It had been glued and filled with some kind of bondo but it was not a great fix. The break was too bad to be repaired originally. This is what my old neck looked like when it snapped.

Resophonic new rebuilt neck

Hey friends this is my blog about building a neck for my Gibson Dobro.

My friend Joseph Yanuziello gave me step by step instruction on how to build it along with a great history lesson about resonator guitars etc.... Joe is located just outside Toronto, Ontario and has built and restored hundreds of guitars and other musical instruments since the late 70's.

His Webpage is http://www.yanuziello.com/  

His Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yanuziello-Stringed-Instruments/220519801294718

I took all of the photos on this blog with my cell phone and missed a lot of the steps involved in the building of this neck. I am not very good at cell phone photography so I will only apologize once for any poor quality photos as the result of this.

I have been doing carpentry for most of my life and would now say my carpentry was all rough carpentry compared to this. I had no idea when I started this project how hard the work is and how much thought and expertise goes into it.