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At 11:24am on October 20, 2011, Marty Cline said…: Hey Matt,

I talked to you Sunday in Mt. Airy (we talked about scales...) It was nice to meet you! As much as I hate to miss it, I don't know if I'll make it to Lexington, as we have the Balloon Rally here in Statesville this weekend and I'm pretty keen on seeing my friend Aaron "Woody" Wood (former Blue Rags & picker extraordinaire) play a set on Saturday. FWIW, the last time we saw him, he had Artimus Pyle playing drums. Have a great time and try no to put "too much pork on just one fork".

Marty

At 9:22am on October 14, 2011, NightOwl said…: Hey Matt! It was great to finally meet a fellow nation member in person. I love the 2 string fretless I bought from you. I'm sure it will end up in one of my videos sometime.

At 3:07am on September 20, 2011, MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said…: Matt like person, your just getting better and better with that hair and makeup!

At 6:45am on July 21, 2011, HOLLOWBELLY said…: no website but yep-if you go to my page here on the nation and go to page 2 of my photos you'll see a very clear shot of the tees.

cheers for the friend request

HB

At 12:04pm on July 5, 2011, Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw said…: Hi Matt.

Thanks for joining the Skype group and hope to chat with you some time.

All the best.

John

At 3:55pm on May 4, 2011, Richard G Caudill said…: ALLL Right ,,,,      now we cook it up ..

scored me some magic boxews today !!   got one the black enclosed 4 pole single coil stk 54-005-01 from gittys and wanta put this in one the boxes i got ,,, i have not done this before ,,have used the piezo ,, and wanta make a little something special for myself ..

questions

best way to mount it in box ,, like the bassier sounds ,, thinking close to fretboard

how do i wire it for best performance

how do i mount it into the box

neck structure to make it work

Know this a lot ,, but have seen ur stuff and know u know how to do it ..

I have tried to get the info off the site but just haven t been able to connect to right places

rgc

At 1:49pm on April 21, 2011, Rand Moore said…: Hi AFKA Matt:

I saw a cigar box dulcijo in one of your photos with a group of instruments you built and wondered if you had a close-up photo of that one instrument. We have set up a dulcijo discussion area up under the new banjo discussion group "Banjo Players Unite!", and I was wanting to find some more photos I could display there. Let me know if you have any you could lend. Here is a low-res snippet of the photo/instrument I was talking about...

-Rand.

At 11:34pm on November 19, 2010, Ricky Martin said…: Matt, thanks so much, and you know the soldier will thank you also.
E-mail me at gmartin5@stny.rr.com and I will send you the soldier(s) name and e-mail and you can ask them personally and get thanks from them also. Also they will give you their info amd address. Ricky

At 12:28am on September 17, 2010, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Two rations of Grog for everyone. Hip, hip...hooray!

At 12:54pm on June 22, 2010, Chris Mulcahy said…: Thanks Matt! Good to be here :)

At 4:49am on May 26, 2010, Zlatko TandrBrk Vujicic said…: I'M GONNA MAKE RESONANT BOX BY MYSELF FOR FIRST TRY,LATER I WILL TRY WITH CIG.BOX AND SUCH THINGS LIKE OIL CAN AND THINGS THAT I SAW HERE ON SITE.MINE OWN IDEAS COME LATER.TX AGAIN FOR HELPIN' ME

At 4:47am on May 26, 2010, Zlatko TandrBrk Vujicic said…: I MENAGE TO CALCULATE NOW,I DOWNLOAD THAT FRETCAL.

At 1:17am on May 24, 2010, Zlatko TandrBrk Vujicic said…: I found those buildin' pages tx anyway ,i'm only worried about frets,don't know how to calculate them

At 6:26am on May 21, 2010, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Yes, I should have said Cigar Box instruments. Mando, uke, violin, etc. Thank you for your interest. Please email your picture and contact info.

At 3:15pm on May 17, 2010, Sean Stimac said…: The site looks good. You've got some good looking instruments there, especially that mandolin. I'm a newb what kind of box is that?

At 7:59am on February 7, 2010, Rev. Nix said…: Matt please do that Please. I would love to!

At 3:03pm on January 23, 2010, Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates said…: You think YOU'RE mad at me?!?!? I'm furious at YOU! I think I spent about 6 hours playing and putting up those cool songs at the site you sent me to... Thanks a lot....(Really, thanks! Cool site. Got it bookmarked now)

Cheers!

-WY

At 9:05am on January 9, 2010, bairfoot cajun said…: hey matt dude i use screws to attach the neck from the front of the box and from the back of the box. the neck goes inside the box at least 1/3rd of the way to half way in the box. with the neck attached that way it kinda kills some of the vibration from the box but i count on the cans to produce the sound. this is a responce to yer question about the tri-can resonator,in the group how good can it sound unplugged.

At 10:52am on August 31, 2009, Tres Seaver said…: Welcome aboard! You'll find lots of helpful folks and information here on building and playing CBGs and related instruments. Feel free to poke around, ask questions, and post your stuff (photos, recordings, videos). Most of all, have fun!