Mark,

Uh, I think you may be wrong. I don't believe Django ever played a resonator guitar. The Macaferri ( that may not be the right spelling, but it's a damn sight closer ) is a knotty top with an oval shaped soundhole. The guitar was designed to boost volume in the pre amplification days, but it's a very mellow, classical sounding guitar. I'm not a railhead myself, but it's nice to see a thread that get's into the stringslingers wet dreams.

A buddy of mine in Kansas city has the dubious distinction of having busted a brand new National steel as a toddler. His Dad, risking divorce (as he tells the tale) had just bought one, and Andy (his real name), managed to pull it down from a wall or a table or something, and gave it a lovely Captain Ahab type scar. His Dad had it repaired, and I noodled on it once. A Great Voice, with a Great Scar. I wonder if they used craftsman tools to fix the damn thing.

Frank I.T.S.