I'd been inspired to try by seeing,live, the Leningrad Cowboys play "Why why why Delilah" and Flaco Jimenez all in one day , a true art moment. It's still one of my favourite instruments, visually too- that '50s pearl celluloid gets me every time. Of course the shiny black ones look tasty too, a bit like American mobster cars from the "40s.I even have a wreck of a banjo in that pearloid stuff to do up one fine day.