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08-18-2022, 08:42 PM
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Fretboard Summit Chicago - Lutherie Showcase Aug 25-27
Hey,
I think I've somehow curated the Midwest's largest lutherie showcase ever and I wanted to make sure you all knew. The Fretboard Summit is next weekend (Aug 25-27, 2022 at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music). There's a lutherie showcase with many legends as well, as well as concerts, workshops, lectures, and some fun stuff you won't find anywhere else. It's basically like walking through the pages of the Fretboard Journal magazine. https://fretboardsummit.org The full list of exhibitors for the show is as follows: 3Bender Michel Aboudib Acoustic Remedy Cases Bashkin Guitars Benedetto Guitars Beauregard Guitars Calton Cases Collings Guitars Dick Boak Leo Buendia, Dammann Custom Instruments DMT Guitars Duneland Labs Ear Trumpet Labs Tim Frick Guitars Galloup Guitars Galloup School of Lutherie Grez Guitars Sam Guidry Guitars Hoffman Guitars Halland Guitars Hayes Guitars T. Drew Heinonen Henriksen Amplifiers Humphrey Amps Hoffee Cases Matthhieu Humbert / Melophonic Iris Guitar Company Isaac Jang Guitars Michael Kennedy / Indian Hill Guitars Randall Kramer Guitars Lane Guitars Lame Horse Instruments LHT Guitars Bernie Lehmann Todd Lunneborg Linda Manzer C.F. Martin & Co Matsuda Guitars Mule Resophonic Guitars Muth Guitars Mya-Moe Ukuleles Northfield Mandolins Ken Parker Archtops Michel Pellerin Richard Reynoso R. Robinson Guitars RØDE Microphones Bruce Roper Ryer Guitars - Saers Guitars Santa Cruz Guitar Company Shopflow / GIT Suite Tyson Soth Guitar Co. Stehr Guitars Strack Woodworking Julien Sublet FE Tellier Guitars Preston Thompson Guitars Maegen Wells Guitars & Mandolins Woolson Soundcraft Yamaha Guitars If anyone wants to attend, we still have tickets for the lutherie showcase (30 bucks) as well as all-access passes that get you into the showcase plus all the workshops, lectures, and concerts. Come if you can and please tell your guitar friends in the Midwest about it. Would love to make this an annual thing! I posted this on the Events page, too, but I know not everyone heads over there. Hope it's ok...and hope to see some of you in Chicago! __________________ 
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08-19-2022, 04:16 AM
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I will be there! Got a ticket for Sat, really looking forward to it.
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08-19-2022, 09:53 AM
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If your plans change, please come! Would love to meet you.
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08-19-2022, 10:29 AM
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And for those of us who can’t attend, Jason, I hope to see a treasure trove of articles, video and audio on the FJ website!
The expanding FJ universe continues to impress us all and you should be very proud! BTW, did anyone find the golden ticket? It wasn’t in my copy of #50 unfortunately. Must have fallen out. Have a wonderful event. Rick
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08-19-2022, 11:20 AM
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We'll be filming many of the lectures and talks (and the game show!) from the Summit. Of course, seeing those guitars up close and playing them can't be replicated. Hope to see some of you there!
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08-19-2022, 03:55 PM
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I'll be there! I'm looking forward to it.
If you find yourself bored by the consistently exquisite quality of the guitars--and who wouldn't be?--drop in on my talk about my current guitar project "Fretology: The Guitar Innovation Lab." I'll be addressing my collaboration with my university medical school's (where I have a faculty appointment) diagnostic imaging program and the Worchester Polytechnic Institute. We have been CT-scanning and recording historically significant vintage guitars and will soon include modern guitars (including the Blue Guitar collection). This is an open-access project: we will share all of our findings--recordings (audio and video), and imaging--with the public. But, yeah, there will be much cooler stuff to attend. Workshop with Molly Tuttle? Check. Hang with the Milk Carton Kids? Check. Talks by TJ Thompson and Mark Stutman? Check? Performance by Julian Lage? Check. Please do yourself a favor and check out the schedule.
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John Last edited by jt1; 08-19-2022 at 06:30 PM.
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08-20-2022, 07:39 AM
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Jt1 - you’d better make absolutely sure that you bring the X-rays for the 1943 Gibson SJ and that you don’t get them mixed up with the 1955 Thomas. I’m not sure that screws in your scapula are as interesting as scalloped bracing (actually, they are pretty interesting). We’ll see if the TSA scanners like all of your hardware.
Have a great trip!
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08-20-2022, 07:43 AM
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I’m planning to attend!
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"Lift your head and smile at trouble. You'll find happiness someday."
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08-20-2022, 08:04 AM
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So many fascinating builders whose work I've never even seen.
I would probably visit Jang, Bashkin, Halland and Sam Guidry first, then take it ALL in. Wonderful lineup.
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Goodall, Martin, Wingert
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08-20-2022, 08:09 AM
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08-20-2022, 09:36 AM
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Before I forget, in addition to the luthier-built guitars, there will be a bunch of new guitars/gear to check out from sponsors Collings, Santa Cruz, Martin, Yamaha (they have some incredible new dreadnoughts... made in California that they'll be showing off), Henriksen amps, Calton Cases, and RODE mics.
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08-20-2022, 01:37 PM
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For those who wish to know the backstory, here it is (though the final tally was 18 broken bones and both lungs punctured)
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08-20-2022, 05:21 PM
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