Eric Schlange, who manages the very popular BanjoHangout web site, has recently launched a similar site for resonator guitar enthusiasts.

ResoHangout.com hosts an active discussion forum plus a tab archive, online video lessons, product reviews, chat rooms and myHangout home pages for registered users. There are already more than 450 users on the site since it went live earlier this month.

To celebrate the new launch, ResoHangout will be giving away a Paul Beard model Gold Tone guitar. Entries can be submitted online prior to 11/02/08 and one entry per day is permitted.

Schlange has also developed a Hangout site for fiddlers, FiddleHangout.com, and is hard at work on one for flatpickers as well. More details on that site will be announced soon.