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At 10:25am on November 10, 2009, John Nagy said…: Shelly,
Your web-site is fantastic and I truly love the ukulele #1. Wanted to see if you had any pics on your uku #2. You totally had me with the string guard. I'm wondering how the heck you fixed the strings to it until I watched you vid. You pulled it off and it has velcro!!! Woe, you're goooood!

cheers,
John

At 8:44pm on November 8, 2009, Gobi said…: Good morning Shelly!
I also loved to search around on your website!
On mine, it is'nt special figured out, how much I work with found and used parts and materials, to create my own stuff... I#m just have started to build a special site about this point, but it's nearly not finished:
http://www.stabil-berlin.de/gobis_welt.html

About your touring plans: I'm not verry in this point of playing somwhere, but I'll keep my eyes and ears open.
Berlin is an interesting place, sometimes rough in a way...
Allways on 21. Jun ther is the "Fête de la Musique" where bands and people play in the hole town - I think you know this also in Netherlands.... but it's all for free.
To get engaged, I think it would be a good idear to talk with some bars, to play there... I could give you some names and contacts.
Hope to see you sometimes!
(and sorry for my bad english, hopfully mixing with duch will do it)
;)

At 9:01am on November 3, 2009, Andy Stone said…: Two weeks? I made mine in 4 and thought it was fast!

At 8:47am on November 3, 2009, Andy Stone said…: I've just found your blogger blog! Much better than mine! Adding you!

At 12:04pm on November 2, 2009, Vince Stark said…: Have you noticed there is a CBG Uke Group on here now?! There's only three of us, and I know little about them. See you there!

At 11:59pm on October 10, 2009, Dianne Woods said…: Hey Shelley, no, I haven't started making one yet. I visited the hardware store Friday to get some ideas and stuff to make one. I need to buy a saw to cut the fret holes. I hope I don't mess up the first one I try, cause it is a candy tin with a pretty scene. I am not sure how to do it yet. I am going to try.

At 10:17am on October 3, 2009, Delvero said…: Hope your weather is nice there! I was in Italy last week and it rained and rained and rained, now back home and it like fall already! Need to go somewhere tropic!

At 10:05am on October 3, 2009, Delvero said…: Yes i did, need to string it up and hear it sing!

At 9:52am on October 3, 2009, Delvero said…: Shelley, can't wait to see and hear more from you! Working today on finishing a 3 string, and have wanted to do a ukulele ever since i saw your video! Hope all is well with you.....

At 11:09pm on September 21, 2009, olds sleeper said…: your blogspot is very well done...i am trying to set one up right now...I cant believe that is your first build...looks and sounds great...and that voice! Europeans must be melting and falling into canals.
peace to ya

At 7:51pm on September 9, 2009, The Edelweiss Vulture said…: Incredible! I love the extras, especially the spools.EV

At 1:07pm on August 30, 2009, Denys Lord said…: Hey Shelley sorry for not answering you before, those bottle cap pickup are made in Toronto Ontario, I like them a lot

At 9:41am on August 23, 2009, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Hello,
I have started a CBN group entitled, "How to Play CBG" It is my hope and intention to encourage the "Wealth of Talent" here on the Nation to share their knowledge and skill to further the CBG movement. Please consider contributing an instructional "video" link to this group. If you are a viewer seeking instruction, please feel free to write. If you have any suggestions or know other players who you think may want to post instructional "video" links, please contact me. Thank you for your interest and support, Keni Lee

At 4:31am on August 21, 2009, Terry Carmack said…: Hey Shelly, Nice work. My mom lives in Gulfport and grew up in summeral Love Mississippi.

At 8:12pm on August 11, 2009, Brian Lemin said…: Hi Shelley. I have written up my Uke story. It is too long to send here.

I will happily send it to your personal email if you feel comfortable with that.

My email is: brido11(AT)bigpond.com (replace (AT) with @ )

Only contact me on my email if you are happy about this arrangement.

At 11:18pm on August 9, 2009, Brian Lemin said…: Yes indeed. I am not madly knowledgeable about continental lace bobbins. i have a collection but i have just "plonked them in as "Belgium" rather than the area of Belgium. i did notice that i have said "Flanders" in the file. i think it is reasonable to say "Torchon" but I am not going on record for that! In any case those are modern made and "Flanders" does not really come into it except for an Historical origin. Oh dear, i am bluffing my way along! Forgive me.
I should say that the shaft of most bobbins (but certainly not all) are parallel.
If i thought there was a market for them i would turn "Lace Bobbin tuning pegs" Just joking. :)
Glad I opened up the world of lace bobbins to you. The trouble is that I suspect you are the kind of person who will keep that tucked away for action in the future! :)

At 6:00pm on August 9, 2009, Brian Lemin said…: Basically they are a standard Belgium bobbin that you have there. There are many other types from Belgium and parts of Belgium and also the "old Flanders".

Bobbin history gets complicated with the Belgium, Dutch, Flanders thing. But I am almost certainly giving you too much information.

I should say that my expertise is in English (as opposed to Continental bobbins) and East Devon (Honiton) bobbins from withing that area.\

If you are interested in the sort of things i write about then a selection of them is on the following URL.

http://bobbins.lacefairy.com/Bobbins/BobbinMuseum/BobbinMuseum.html

At 7:38pm on August 8, 2009, Brian Lemin said…: I "think" i saw some "lace bobbins" being used as tuning pegs in your slide show. Tell me more as I am a "lace Bobbin" historian.

BTW I just love your singing voice.

At 6:26pm on August 7, 2009, 3 String Blues said…: Hey there...just checkin around on this site and I thought you might like my new cigar box guitar and 3 string site ....help spred the word as I am not getting many hits...I am gonna post alot of cool stuff over there.. click the above link when you have some free time