Wood-Body Resonators
Wood-body resonators mate a single spun cone to a wooden body, and that pairing gives you the resonator’s signature cut with a warmer, woodier core than an all-metal build. It is the classic bluegrass and country-blues voice, at home on your lap or across your knee.
Our wood-body range is Recording King, from the Maxwell and small-body biscuit-cone models to the Professional and Phil Leadbetter signature squarenecks. Roundnecks suit standard and bottleneck play; squarenecks are set up for lap-style slide.
The Gold Tone PBS-M is the solid-mahogany Paul Beard Signature squareneck resonator, built around a genuine USA-made Beard cone, spider bridge and "open" soundwell in a tobacco sunburst finish with curly maple binding. An all-solid-wood bluegrass dobro that ships with a case.
Recording King's Maxwell roundneck resonator guitar, an all-mahogany body with a European hand-spun spider cone and true sandcast spider bridge for full, focused tone.
Recording King's Maxwell squareneck resonator guitar, an all-mahogany body with a European hand-spun spider cone and sandcast spider bridge, built for dedicated lap-style slide playing.
A professional-quality small-body resonator guitar in Satin Brown, with a 9.5 inch European hand-spun cone and all-mahogany body, built for folk, blues and country.
A professional-quality small-body resonator guitar in Vintage Sunburst, with a 9.5 inch European hand-spun cone and all-mahogany body, built for folk, blues and country.
A small-body wood resonator with a 9.5-inch hand-spun cone and a factory-installed Fishman Nashville pickup, built for electric blues and slide.
Recording King's Professional roundneck resonator guitar, built entirely from mahogany with a 12-fret neck joint and hand-spun aluminum cone for true vintage-era tone.
Recording King's Professional squareneck resonator guitar, built entirely from mahogany with a 12-fret neck joint, made exclusively for lap-style slide playing.
The Phil Leadbetter signature squareneck resonator guitar, a flame maple body with an advanced bluegrass-voiced bracing pattern and pearl signature inlay.