While attending the St. Louis Tionol last weekend I headed over to Joe Mendels shop to take a few pics. He had some mighty fine octave mandolins at the Zouk workshop, I noticed he has ads for a couple on the cafe classifieds. Joe is slowly but surely interviewing all this planets mandolin family luthiers for Mel Bays mandosessions, someone with requisite skills should interview him!
A shot of the maestro surrounded by wood stash, holding some select Old Standard (the OS farwood pile is just an hour west) red spruce and grenadillo from Hibdon hardwood in St. Louis:
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