Great video...nice hat too
Larry
Great video...nice hat too
Larry
this is a great video that I meant to post yesterday. I really enjoyed watching this and can't want 'till he builds my guitar. O.K. I can wait - it's just been 7 years. . .
What a fine man!
f-d
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Thanks, Larry, that was fun.
I know Wayne a little bit, and have had the pleasure of owning one of his instruments. A unique, amazing man. I've never met anyone like him.
And man, I need one of those end-pins! Sweet looking and sounding mandolin.
I'm glad they got a close up of the famous pocket knife that Wayne uses to "cut away everything that doesn't look like a mandolin".
That mandolin sounds pretty good to be so green. It will only get better over the next few years!
The guy playing the A style mandolin looks like the guy from 'Mandolin Orange", a good picker too.
Wayne finishes up most of his mandolins between the hours of 11 pm and 2 am.
(ask me how I know. )
Hang in there fatt-dad. It's early!
Phil
“Sharps/Flats” ≠ “Accidentals”
What an incredible video! Leaves me wanting to see a whole lot more. Thanks for posting!!
I had the once-in-a-lifetime honor of spending three weeks with Wayne in a guitar building class at Augusta Heritage Arts in WV back in the 1980s. It was a great experience and one of my dreams. He is a great guy and a wonderful teacher. I still have the 000 size form from that class and one day I hope to build another guitar. I am just sorry i didn't build one immediately after that class so i could remember all the details and hints and tricks he taught us. There were only the three of us in the class. The other amazing part was that I got to play music and video games with him and just hang as well.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Larry - Thanks so much for posting that clip.It's awesome to watch a real craftsman at work. I could watch the whole building process from start to finish & enjoy every second. I did note that Wayne sanded his bridge from side to side in the way that i did when i fitted a CA bridge to a previously owned instrument.
Those belt sanders can be pretty dangerous things. One touch of your knuckle on the belt & you're down to the bone. I got close to wetting myself when i saw him pick up that drill to drill the end pin hole - jeeeeez!!
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
Great stuff.
All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song - Louis Armstrong
Here are videos of an interview with Wayne. You get some sense of him as a person, his sense of humor and his background.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
You have to appreciate him using his bluejeans as a wipe cloth to get the hide glue off his finger tips while putting the fingerboard on. A true master craftsman from the true sense of the word. He has always been pretty spot on with getting a Loar type color and finish. I think over 50% of the mandolin was made with his pocket knife.
I gather that Wayne Henderson is not a fan of hot hide glue, like most luthier's of his stature? At least he once strongly recommended titebond to me for the dovetailed neck of a mandolin I was working on.
Great video, thanks for posting. Got to meet Wayne at Blue Ridge Old Time week. Fine person, wonderful musician.
Cary Fagan
well-l-l ......... the knife probably does SOMETHING to over 50%. (Scrapes, trims, fine tunes the shape, etc.)
Wayne says that the first guitar he made with D-45 abalone trim, he did entirely by cutting out the shell with the pocket knife and shaping and inlaying it! That's a lot of abalone and a lot of cutting. Fortunately, he was in no hurry!
Phil
“Sharps/Flats” ≠ “Accidentals”
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