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mralston - Posted - 11/17/2009: 15:07:42
Talk about a coincidence.......I shipped a banjo to Indiana this morning and decided to take a picture of one of my shipping crates (picture below). I try to make them pretty durable......make them out of luan panel (cheap wooden ply material that is used to make doors, about 1/4" thick, fairly stiff, fairly splintery), use an electric staple gun to fasten the edges to a square moulding inside the box, then reinforce the edges with duct tape. I thought I was doing pretty well with these crates.... have sent banjos all over without any problem and then this evening I got this e-mail from a friend in VA (Victor) to whom I sent a banjo recently..... Youtube clip says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCPhq5Icps
Mark Ralston
"Now, people…. when it comes to the scientifical parts of music I know nothing about it, but I can play. Listen…. A man comes to this world naked and bare; He goes through life with troubles and care; He departs this life and goes we don’t know where; But he’ll be all right there if he lives all right here" ......... Uncle Dave Macon
www.yellowstone-jewelry.com
Edited by - mralston on 11/17/2009 15:26:37
shambles - Posted - 11/17/2009: 15:21:30
That's awesome but not at all what I expected.
Mark.
Nosferatu - Posted - 11/17/2009: 15:25:19
I think you should send him a bill for that bass kit.
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain." -- Jonathan Harker, Dracula
beegee - Posted - 11/17/2009: 15:54:16
Don't tell Mike Gregory....
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Mumble Peg - Posted - 11/17/2009: 15:58:33
Where's the 5th string peg?
xnavyguy - Posted - 11/17/2009: 16:05:23
Looks like some of your musical instrument making ability got confused with your banjo shipping crate building ability. Nice work!
Jerry
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance."
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 11/17/2009: 16:50:23
So it's not only little kids who'd rather play with the box than with the toy that came in it...
I'll never play like Earl Scruggs or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, but I'll pick better than Luciano and sing tenor better than Earl
deligo ergo renideo,
Bob Cameron
J-Walk - Posted - 11/17/2009: 17:01:10
Just your bass-ic shipping crate.
Grum - Posted - 11/17/2009: 17:17:14
Aw come on ... I'm reading this at work where YouTube is blocked! I can't see the funny picture till I get home! My imagination is working overtime.
Grahame Bertram - I pick, therefore I grin.
Quickstep192 - Posted - 11/17/2009: 19:57:15
It looks like his finger "board" has limited fretting range. You need to make your shipping crates in a cutaway version.
Retropicker - Posted - 11/18/2009: 02:40:18
Love that.
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PBGuardsman - Posted - 11/18/2009: 05:42:49
haha I was expecting a disaster. What a pleasant surprise.
"The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." 1 John 2:17 (NIV)
mike gregory - Posted - 11/18/2009: 07:57:51
quote:
Originally posted by beegee
Don't tell Mike Gregory....
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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing." -Seneca
 Too late, my friends!
Bwahahahahaha!!!And here's a banjo whose body is made from strips off a hollow-core bathroom door! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4cjsn0iZwk
Thor - Posted - 11/18/2009: 10:11:45
quote:
Too late, my friends!
Bwahahahahaha!!!
Bass rectAngler?
fynger - Posted - 11/18/2009: 10:49:34
Mike ...just watched yer vid there....we were wondring...bet you have a full tool kit in yer pockets..... :)
Kev.
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BvilleDon - Posted - 11/18/2009: 13:10:13
Some of the most fun music comes from the unlikliest of places!
farmer bob - Posted - 11/18/2009: 13:33:59
In dulcimerland we would call it a Tennessee music box of sorts... Bob.
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