Blond Woodley's

[Gary Hedrick]

I have been fortunate enough over the years to own some very nice instruments. I took pictures of them but misplaced the files. I have been cleaning up my tape area, hard drives and CD's and have found a number of pictures that might be of interest so I will post them in a few threads in this topic.

Here is a matching set of blond Woodleys......an F5 and F4 that I kept in a Mark Leaf case...

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[Gary Hedrick]

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[Jim Hilburn]

From someone who has done it a few times, that neck joint shot will make you feel all tingly.

[sgarrity]

Dang Gary.......you've had some nice ones!! I've always wanted a matched pair in a double case.

[SternART]

I once had a nice blonde birdseye A model.........Doug Woodley is a very skilled luthier!

[Gary Hedrick]

Dang Gary.......you've had some nice ones!! I've always wanted a matched pair in a double case.

"chuckle".......yeah Shaun that was always my fantasy......and these two were really really nicely done. He is a precision builder.

[Gary Hedrick]

I once had a nice blonde birdseye A model.........Doug Woodley is a very skilled luthier!

I thought I knew you had one.........to those that don't know it, Arthur is a stained glass master artist. His eye for the aesthics of an instrument is second to none and he has owned some real beauties.

Yes Doug Woodley is an artist.

[SternART]

Thanks Gary........I believe we both owned that black topped long neck Woodley F2 at one time too.
I traded it to Will Kimble who had played it at one of your jam sessions. I'm not sure where
it went next.

[Gary Hedrick]

Arthur, it went to Cottom Music and from there who knows....they don't have a record of who bought it.....I have another thread about that one where I am trying to find it.

[Jim Garber]

Has anyone been in touch with Doug Woodley? Will he build again?

This is more Woodley instruments than I have ever heard of. I played the black F2 when Will had it -- as i noted on the other thread, it was one of the best modern oval holed mandolins I have ever played. I played that one for prob a half hour and wish I had the cash at the time to buy it.

I have also played a mandola he built and an F5 copy. I have seen Marilynn's L&H copy but never played it.

[SternART]

I had a very nice F5 Woodley too.........it lives in NY now. There is a lefty F5 out there too. I saw an ad, probably here on the Cafe for a more recent mandola.

Will Kimble has been in touch with him over the years, as I recall he was doing some building again. I hope so, nice fella and a great builder. We had a pickin' party in my studio back in the day where he was the guest of honor. Paul Ebersman who was involved with Rigel at the time brought Doug.

[Glassweb]

Dang Gary.......you've had some nice ones!!

Shaun, ya took the words out of my brain... YEAH... he's had some good ones!

[djeffcoat]

I had a very nice F5 Woodley too.........it lives in NY now. There is a lefty F5 out there too.

I have a lefty Woodley F5 that's dated Feb 22, 2000 (that's 02/22/2000). I ordered it from Doug through the Twelfth Fret in Toronto. Same batch of woods as the F5 above. It lives in Texas and I would not even think of selling it.