C.W. Stoneking

On his site, Stoneking specifies: "The Style N was custom built for me by National and is based on the earliest Style N Guitar models from around 1930. Though some of the plainest looking National guitars, the Style N was the top of the line single-cone model of it’s day. This guitar has a nickel-plated, German silver body with the old style un-ribbed coverplate with soldered on handrest, mahogany ‘Tricone’ style neck with old style fixed bar instead of a truss rod and a straighter than usual neck width, un-bound ebony fretboard with old style pearl dot marker layout."

On Stoneking's website, he says, "The El Trovador is the first National Reso-Phonic guitar I purchased, it’s a reissue of a model that was only manufactured for about 1 year in 1933. This guitar has a cool old parlour guitar type shape and a deeper than usual mahogany body also a slightly narrower neck than the other National guitar models, sounds real good and loud."

On Stoneking's website, he says, "The National NRP is a painted finish steel bodied single cone guitar, I have the ivory finish one, it’s basically a duolian which is the archetypal blues resonator guitar used by artists like Bukka White, Son House, Tommy McClennan, Blind Boy Fuller."

On C.W. Stoneking's website, Stoneking says of his Style 1 Tricone guitar, "I purchased the Tricone ‘replicon’ in New York City shortly after losing my old 33 model Dobro in a NYC Yellow Cab, this guitar has a nickel-plated brass body and some cool vintage looking features, it also has an artifically aged finish, meaning that the folks at National make a perfect, shining, Style 1 Tricone and then do bad things to it to cram 70 years of wear into it, this guitar has made a few rounds with me now and has quite a bit more wear than it did before. This guitar is the one pictured on the front of the Jungle Blues album."

Stoneking says, about his 1974 Dobro, on his website, "This is the guitar on the cover of the King Hokum album, it was my first resonator guitar purchased back in 1997. This guitar was Dobro’s answer to the metal bodied National guitars, it has a nickel-plated brass body and a biscuit style’ 10 1/2 inch resonator cone, this one had a cone made by National which I put in it and was a very loud guitar. I played this guitar alot in the 11 years I owned it – it was lost in New York City, left in the trunk of a Yellow Cab one night after a show."