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Another terrific Wintergrass and the Fretboard Journal Vintage Instrument workshop/tasting. It is always such great fun and this year Tim O'Brien, Eli West, Nina Gerber and Chris Eldridge did a...

Just a reminder to come on out to Wintergrass next week if you can. I am really looking forward to a great line up this year, and it looks like we will have at least 3 maybe 4 Loar signed mandolin...

The workshop schedules are now posted on the Wintergrass 2024 site (https://wintergrass.com/) and again this year we are doing a Fretboard Journal Vintage Instrument workshop session. Wintergrass is...

Fretboard Journal posted the video today from this Wintergrass workshop. A link is here:
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Thanks as always to Wintergrass for hosting us for this event each year and to all of the folks who help make it happen. We always end up having more instruments than we have time to get to at in...

This mandolin sounded great in the Wintergrass Fretboard Journal Vintage instrument Workshop we did last year. Greg was kind enough to let us use it for this session and Sharon Gilchrist and Joe K...

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The list of vendors and builders should be posted soon - but I understand that this year at Wintergrass, the Builder’s Room will be at the far end of the Evergreen Hallway and these folks...

The workshop schedules are now posted on the Wintergrass 2023 site (https://wintergrass.com/) and we are once again doing a Fretboard Journal Vintage Instrument workshop session. For those who have...

Mick - I added a photo of the Regal label above. The whole Chicago intertwined group of manufacturers is a very interesting story indeed. Catalog sales were the way of the world and so many...

I also agree with Bob and Jim above that is it almost certain most of the L & H and Washburn carved mandolins were built in the Lyon & Healy factory before the sale of that division. Even though...

I agree the Fern is special. Jason did some video of Dawg playing and talking about his Fern the same day he did this video of Crusher so hopefully we will see that additional video out sometime...

Hoffee will modify it for a modest cost if you pay shipping both ways or are close enough to take it there

As Scott has posted, Wintergrass is happening as an in-person event his year once again and we are doing a Fretboard Journal vintage instrument session. Wintergrass is a fantastic event, all indoors...

A nice Loar H-5

https://www.fretboardjournal.com/video/david-grisman-performs-on-vladimir-gibson-loar-h-5-mandola-fretboard-journal/

Mark

The workshop schedule is now posted on the Wintergrass 2020 site and once again, we are doing a vintage instrument session. Wintergrass is a fantastic event, all indoors at the Hyatt Regency Hotel...

The workshop schedule is now posted on the Wintergrass 2019 site and once again we are doing a vintage instrument session. A terrific line up this year with Tim Stafford and Dale Adkins on guitars...

The Wenatchee River Bluegrass festival is my second favorite in the PNW other than Wintergrass. Always the 3rd weekend in June so you can plan in advance. Great campground and jamming all night,...

I helped the Fretboard Journal folks interview Del McCoury last Spring and I asked him about Bill's D-28 herringbone that was stolen - he said it was a 1939 with a long pickguard and that it was...

I reached out to Bob Carlin (who wrote the book on Regal history) and Hubert Pleijsier (who wrote the book on Washburn history) and compared my notes with them. Neither of them, nor I, have seen...

The workshop schedule is now posted on the Wintergrass 2017 site and you will see that the Fretboard Journal folks are again hosting a vintage instrument workshop - this year with John Reischman...