LINT MEETING
February 2005 NOTES


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The LINT February 2005 meeting was held at Curly Woods and hosted by our friend Michael Mastin. He was gracious enough to allow us to use his facility for the benefit of our members. It is said that he may have sold some wood as well. Our member turnout was the largest ever! We even had some non-members attend just to see what we are all about.

As we all gathered around the woodpile, Mike explained the business of curly wood procurement. There are many issues which present problems in maintaining stocks of high quality material. In his recent travels, he has sought out smaller mills in an effort to find suppliers that will accommodate his customer’s special needs. He told the group that the availability of spruce and white cedar is something he is pursuing for LINT. Stay tuned to his website for new arrivals. He made the commitment to help us locate the very special materials we need for fine musical instrument making.


Show & Tell

There were plenty of finished and unfinished projects as shown below.
Robert Quisenberry shows the Indian rosewood and spruce dreadnaught he made for his musical father.
Here is Robert’s “keeper” he made with substantial shell work. Take a close up look at the fretboard....nice.
As for most unusual, Carol Flanagan from Oklahoma, brought a maple body guitar with an aromatic cedar top. It was probably a first for most of us.
Steve Bigelow updates the progress of his dreadnaught. Finishing is right around the corner. He enjoys the sense of accomplishment that comes with being nearly finished. We’ll get to play it soon.
Dynamo Dan Fobert brought his first mandola. It has a 16” scale and sounds sweet. It is patterned after his beautiful carved top guitar. It doesn’t take Dan long to make progress when the gears start turning on a new design.
Mike Roach brought his new guitar and gave his views on the project. Mike encourages others who are contemplating making an instrument to go for it! He also has a new design underway for a very special friend of his....Keep on rockin’ Mike.
Jeremy Jenkins (son of Chris Jenkins) displays a fine rosewood guitar he made at Harry Fleishman’s school. It has an asymmetrical bridge and bracing, unique body and way cool inlay materials. Bravo Jeremy.
Fitz is back! John Fitzgerald of Parretta Guitars is showing a black walnut and western cedar bouzouki which is more popular in Celtic music circles. As usual it is very nicely done. We managed to get him to demonstrate his musical talent as well by playing a bit.
Mike Imhoff brought a new F mandolin. His carving and binding work were exceptional. These are notoriously hard to detail but Mike stood up to the task. He should have a good player before too long.
Moses McKnight has done it again...take a close up look at the hand engraved shellwork on these Banjo necks. He does the best shell inlay in the entire region. It is truly professional grade work.

NOTES:


Do not forget to get your $50 tuition in for the 2005 Master Class featuring Richard Brune, Saturday April 16th at Lewis Bauer’s shop near TCU in Ft Worth. It’s 8-4pm with a lunch break. He is a wealth of information and experience.


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