You may have seen Steve Gilchrist is doing an oval hole kind of A-style. This is kind of my basic bare bones model, I don’t make any options available on this, that’s for the more deluxe models. It was only big enough for a 12-fret 00, and I don’t get a lot of call for 00’s, so I kind of hung on to it until it was time to build something special.įJ: Tell us a bit more about the mandolin. I wish I had more of it, but this was a set I got probably 15 years or so ago from Mike Longworth’s brother.
Brazilian rosewood, Adirondack spruce… a really nice set of Brazilian. It’s a 00, 12-fret and it’s a 28 style with herringbone trim. I just put the last of the finish on it the day before yesterday, so I’m kind of waiting for the finish to cure. We’ll pack it up this weekend, and probably ship it Monday.īut the one that’s really kind of been in the works here for the past few weeks is a guitar that I just finished. oval hole, but a modern version of it with f-holes and a longer neck. It’s kind of a bare bones A-style – an F-hole instrument, not an oval hole – based on the old Gibson A-Jr. I sold it to a gentleman at the Mandolin Symposium and brought it back home to do a little final setup on it for him. On the bench in front of me at this moment is an A-style mandolin that I built and completed a little over a month ago. Lynn Dudenbostel: I’ve got two things going right now. And one that I’m starting.” In this week’s Bench Press, he describes two of the instrument’s he’s currently working on, a relatively modest A-style mandolin and a 00-style guitar.įretboard Journal: What’s on your bench right now? I like to have one that’s mostly assembled.
“I like to have one that’s just about finished. “I like to usually have no more than about three instruments in the works at any given time,” says the Maryville, Tennessee-based luthier.
We figured it was high time to interview “Dude” for a Bench Press column and see what he’s working on today. Readers of this magazine may remember the in-depth story we published on the luthier in the Fretboard Journal #14 or the companion video we shot of Dudenbostel in his workshop. Advice for entrepreneurs advice for side hustlers blogging blogging for side hustlers business advice Chris Guillebeau content marketing Copyblogger copywriting Creativity in Business Curation for Side Hustlers entrepreneurship extra income Freebies freebies for side hustlers inspiration for side hustlers Lists Marketing for side hustlers online business passive income Pat Flynn productivity productivity for side hustlers resources for side hustlers Seth Godin Side Hustle Side Hustle Nation side hustles Side Hustle School Smart Passive Income Tags 279 Days to Overnight Success advice for side hustlers Austin Kleon blogging blogging advice blogging for side hustlers blogging tips Brooks Conkle Chris Guillebeau content marketing content marketing for side hustlers copywriting copywriting for side hustlers Daniel Pink Drayton Bird entrepreneurs Evan Carmichael extra income Fast Company freebie freebies for side hustlers Gary Vaynerchuk Guy Kawasaki ideas for side hustles inspiration for side hustlers James Clear John Lee Dumas Jon Acuff Leadpages lists for side hustlers Mike Brown motivation for side hustlers Nick Loper Online courses passive income Pat Flynn podcasting Quora quotes for side hustlers resources for side hustlers Ryan Robinson Sara Blakely Seth Godin Shannon Mattern Side Hustle side hustle lessons Side Hustle Nation side hustles Side Hustle School side hustles for women Sonia Simone startupnation.Lynn Dudenbostel’s creations are some of the most coveted acoustic instruments built today.