Resophonic Wood Body Resonator Guitars

The Beard R Model has taken the most desirable features of the vintage period guitar, including the open sound well construction, and combined them with exclusive improvements in materials, construction, finishes, appointments and technical innovations. This creates a traditional instrument that has a perfectly balanced, full-bodied sound.

a wonderful sounding and attractive wood-body resophonic instrument built with a slotted headstock, having an engraved headstock logo, vintage style National tuners. It utilizes a bone nut, an ivoriod heel cap, an ebony fretboard and a biscuit bridge. The guitar’s fetching, enticing body is made laminate mahogany - but then so were its prewar antecedents. It comes in a fine hard shell case.

Weber has built their resophonics to be the best in the world: period. No others use better, more well-aged tone woods, a more innovative soundwell than our Carousel Soundwell, or a better hand-spun aluminum cone. Every model comes standard with the agressive attack and chop bluegrass players desire, and the round, balanced, enormous tone we set out to achieve with these guitars. Add the beauty of our inlay, fit and finish, and you have world class instruments that stand alone.

This model is made with select solid tone woods, utilizing innovative designs which produce an unusually resonant instrument with an aggressive response and stellar tone throughout the entire playing range. 

A mahogany body combines with a highly figured Eastern hard rock maple veneer top. It has an actual rosewood fretboard; its solid peghead has a pearloid overlay, its body is equipped with a P-90 pickup in the neck position and there’s also the Highlander IP-1X Piezo pickup in the saddle. Extreme versatility, and the sound from the hidden hollers of Hell, right at your fingertips to do with as you please.

Designed by legendary maker Paul Beard, this signature model guitar is hand made and provides unmatched tone in its price range. The Beard "open" soundwell body design utilizes genuine USA Beard cones & spiders. All Gold Tone Beard Signature Series feature USA assembly and setup by experienced luthiers using Beard cones & spiders.