I am creating this separate web log to keep things a little more organized than just dumping everything into my "personal catch-all" blog.
My intent is to limit entries on this log to all things "lutherie" ... that is ... all things related in some way to my hobby of building stringed instruments. I suspect that occasionally something more "music related" and less "building" related will sneak into this log but for the most part I will try to keep things "build" related ...
In October of this year (2009) Carolyn and I will embark on a "road trip" to San Luis Obispo California. The stated purpose of the trip is that I will be attending a Mandolin Building Lutherie Camp under the direct tutelage of Roger Siminoff. Roger is a well known and respected luthier and has written several books on the subject of building stringed instruments including the de-facto written guide on building a "Bluegrass style" Mandolin (Books by Roger Siminoff). The camp will be an intense 5 day lecture and hands on building experience at Roger's shop in California. There are six registered students and over the course of 5 very intense and action packed days we will each begin construction on an F style mandolin with the objective of leaving with a mandolin ready to finish, install hardware and string up for play.
I will be building an F4 style mandolin (F4 photo) and I believe the rest of the class will be concentrating an F5 style mandolin (F5 photo). I have already done one F5 from a Steward MacDonald kit and asked Roger if I could branch out a bit at the camp with an F4. Roger graciously agreed and so that will be my task.
I intend to detail "class" notes and experiences in THIS web log and our "travel and trip" experiences over in the general log.
We depart for "the wild West" on Friday October 2, 2009 ... stay tuned.
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