National Triolian 1930

Hello People!
Thanks for joining me for more guitar restoration videos! We'll take this one apart and put in back together to get rid of an annoying rattle. It’s a 1930’s National Triolian.
Cheers,
Scotty D.,
Harpeth Guitar Restoration, LLC.
Nashville, Tennessee

[@mikedavis3841]

Thank you for the lesson in resonator guitar repair.👍

[@harpethguitar]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rodneykroetsch2924]

Very good, captain 👏!

[@harpethguitar]

Aye Matey! 😁

[@antoine2333]

Hi Scotty, it's fun to repair old instruments and this old grany resonator just needed some attention and some perfum like any old lady would do : she was given some care by the finest luthier of the USA ! Thank you for this nice video !

[@harpethguitar]

Well said!

[@stu-j]

Old guitars in smokey bars age just that perfect colour! My 73 white tele is a wonderful yellowish white from years of dirty dive bars that you could cut the smoke with a knife!

[@meltedwheeliebin]

Funny guy!

[@Dayton-Swords]

Hey! That’s mine!

[@harpethguitar]

Wazzup Dayton!

[@flapjack413]

That flexible tubing attached to your vacuum is a great idea! I think I'm going to use that next time I need to get into a hard to reach area.

[@edwardpetersen4309]

Never thought of taping the balls in the tail piece slots as I tune up . . . Doh!

[@harpethguitar]

Taping your balls is handy! 😅

[@joemcgraw5529]

Dont taste the Goo Gone lol,Very interesting design on the cone with the swirl pattern ,How do you like the String tech work Station ? I really want one ,Mikes design is very cool and love watching him do his magic on guitars ,I like your tip putting the tape on the tailpiece it will come in very handy ,Like the Grand Funk demo as well

[@harpethguitar]

Thanks a lot! I love the string tech workstation GPS. It’s a chase lounge for guitars 🎸

[@vayabroder729]

Yep; those are notorious for accumulating a lot of dust inside; I have a ‘31 Duolian and can attest to that. So getting your biscuits rubbed is fun? 😂🤣

[@harpethguitar]

😆😆

[@andyt5559]

the A string is the worst, I drove myself crazy 1 night with a strat it had a buzz only the open A string, the neck pickup would vibrate in the pickgaurd in sympathy with the string a small square if foam under each pickup, solved it, you couldn't hear it through an amp! my philosophy changed that night, if you can't hear it through an amp forget about it!

[@stevedimebag]

That’s TONE DIRT you’re rubbing off that cone!

[@wildeman1253]

That one is a couple years older than my '36 Duolian but it seems like mine has a lead coating under the paint, that might be some of the crap you were cleaning from inside.

[@mysteritmodk9572]

Did you find out exactly what caused the bisquit to buzz?

[@harpethguitar]

I think one of the strings was outside of it’s string slot but I forgot to look to see which one. Silly me.

[@mysteritmodk9572]

@@harpethguitar 👍 Very nice sounding resonator!

[@davidethridge5748]

What's the tubing you were playing in and how exactly did you fix the buzz?

[@harpethguitar]

DADF#AD . One of the strings wasn’t seated properly in the string slot

[@resomony]

Unless someone is an OCD clean freak I don't know why you'd go to the trouble of scrub-cleaning the inside of a guitar. It sure won't make any difference in the sound or playability.