I'm Skibumdog, another senior citizen
I've been playing guitar for about 40 years, just jamming with friends, never been in a band except in high school.
About 20 years ago I started dealiing with GAS...guitar acquisition syndrome. This comes and goes with no real predictability. The result is a collection of off beat and some known guitars. My friend Rich up in Wyoming works on/rebuilds a lot of these. Next week I'm going to visit him and pick up a Harmony Rocket he is rebuilding. This is no ordinary Harmony Rocket. He has put new tuners on it, carved a bone nut and Rosewood bridge, put a Bigsby on it (my request) and is putting the original D'Armond pickkups (2) back in. I am so excited, I feel like a little kid at Christmas.
I have been playing
slide a lot on acoustic resos, now I am trying to plug in and get great tone without a bunch of feedback from the amp. Mostly I play in open D, but am intrigued with Kirk's open D and also standard tuning.
The resos I plug in are:
Liberty Curly Oak.....National biscuit cone and McIntyre pu
Dobro Dobrolectric.....Like a thin line tele with a biscuit reso, P-90 and some kind of acoustic pu and a blender knob that lets you mix them
Dobro Squareneck....not sure of the model #, with the acoutic pu they put in
Larry Pogreba brazed aluminum reso....bone nut, new tail piece and Lindy Fralin reso pu added by my friend Rich. This guitar is truly cosmic. The sound bounces around in the body like a super ball on a handball court.
Anyway, enough rambling on about me. I mentioned these guitars because if anyone has experience with different amp settings and dealing with the feedback issue, I would be real interested in how you deal with it.