I'm loving your version of Shelter From the Storm on the Dylan album. Just thought I'd pass on my appreciation, cheers man.

Hey, Turtlehead, Thanks for the encouragement. Your photo icon showing the cohiba

input jack is great looking. The KIng Of Hearts is built out of a cohiba gigante box.

I had my brother in law do the camera work. He will be pleased with your good review

of his style. Thanks, again! Ken Hale

Those lyrics have sat around unused since May.  Time to turn them loose and have something great come as a result.  I had the creative inspiration to write them and I thought it would be too much a shame to put them to an amateur level of playing and even worse vocals (me).  I like to think I'm improving all the time, but I think those lyrics are still a couple levels above my pay grade.

Hey, thanks for your contribution using my lyrics.  I've been really disappointed with my own efforts to put them to use.  I got the sound of Johnny Cash singing the song stuck in my head and couldn't purge it, even though it wasn't what I wanted.  The idea to incorporate the Steel Gray Saturday instrumental never occurred to me and you did a great job grafting the two together.  I'm very thankful that you took the time to do something with it.

You're welcome! Actually, I owe you an apology for not having sent you a friend invite earlier. (Thought I had.) You're the guy that reminded me about open tuning and 5-string playing way back with your video on your "Keith" build. That kicked off a whole wave of new music writing and fun times for me. I owe you! :-))

Thank you very much for adding me as your new fiend... many nice things to discover on your page...°<[:-) [---]==={...

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Thanks for the Friend request! Gladly acepted. For some reason, I assumed we were already Nation buds. Glad we are now. Can't wait to hear your work on Two Hands.

Hey Mate. No problems, I'll have a crack at it. I've played Pancho on a 6 string, but I'll have to work it out on my 4 string CBG.

I'm constantly on the lookout for video material from multiple sources. This came from the U.S. National Archives, and was originally taken by agents of the Department of Agriculture. In its raw form it's several hours of material. The Prelinger Archives is a good source for this material and in fact has some of this footage, albeit haphazardly edited. Prelinger stuff is all in the public  domain, which is important. You may want to try http://archive.org/ , although you need to triple-check whether or not you can legally use what you find there. The number of possible sources of legally viable material is endless... as I noted at the end of Behind The Mast, the ship images came from the Australian National Maritime Museum, via http://www.flickr.com/commons/ , although once again, you need to triple-check just what you can do with it...

Sometimes the film and images inspire the noise, other times it's the exact opposite.

Usually, it's kinda inbetween...

Thanks Turtlehead for the kind words. Gearing up for build # 2

Thank you turtlehead for your reply. It works well with 3 string CBG too.

GDg (G5 tuning on my CD 4) or GDf (G5 add 7th) or GDa (G5 add 9)

Retune GDg to ADf# (Open D tuning on my CD 6) or ADf (D minor) or ADg (standard guitar chords / moveable e chord).

Oh, the vastness...Enjoy your practice.  

came to check out your version of Uncle J's song...well done, sounds great : -)