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• 1. mateo  |  February 18th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

  Neko Case? How about an in-depth on Bruce Cockburn, friends?

• 2. Barney  |  February 20th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

  Wasn’t the article on Neko Case’s tenor guitars back in issue two (I still am drooling over the Tenor SG)? I don’t even see her listed in the contents of this issue.

• 3. Jason  |  February 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am

  Neko Case was in the first issue of the Fretboard Journal (interviewing Charlie Louvin) and in the second issue (describing her tenor guitar collection). She has not appeared in any of the issues after that, including the fifth issue. Maybe Mateo is just suggesting that the FJ covers Bruce Cockburn.

• 4. Jaimie  |  February 22nd, 2007 at 10:02 am

  After finally subscribing, I just got my first issue. Just read the story about the Tony Rice/Clarence White guitar and I couldn’t put it down until I finished the story. Really in depth and full of interesting tidbits. I enjoyed the story about Bill Nash as well…until recently I owned one of his early Telecaster relics (the first one at the top of the Tele page of his website) and it was an amazing guitar. Like too many of us, I get the fever to trade things around and somehow convinced myself I was going to do better by selling my Nash. Big mistake. Thanks for a great issue.

• 5. Craig  |  February 23rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm

  I know I’ve said this before, but, I LOVE THIS MAGAZINE!!!! My only complaint is that I read through it too fast and then have to wait another three or so months for the next issue!!! AHHHH!!! However, the wait is well worth it. It’s such an intelligently-written magazine. It’s such a pleasure to have in my life!

• 6. Craig  |  February 24th, 2007 at 10:54 am

  Taj Mahal states (I’m paraphrasing), “…There’s more musicians per square mile in Hawaii than anywhere else in the world…” Boy! Ain’t that the truth?!! I’ve only played ukulele for about four years and am just beginning to scratch the surface of learning about the numerous Hawaiian masters that most of us have never heard of. So many of these guys that have played hotel gigs their entire lives are incredible!

• 7. Jim  |  March 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm

  Thanks for the article on Clarence White’s D28. Also, thanks for the anecdote about Herb David’s repair job. I bought my D28, and a couple of other guitars, from Herb when I lived in Ann Arbor in the early 70’s. Herb is not only a “repairman extraordinaire,” but a damn fine human being.

• 8. Peter  |  March 3rd, 2007 at 8:59 pm

  alright. what’s this about tony’s new “carbon-fiber case,” mentioned seemingly umteen times…. who makes it? i love my caltons, but i’d sure like at least one travel-worthy case that didn’t weigh 15+ lbs. for bob shane’s 1958 d-28:)

  sure like to know.

  oh. and thnaks for the fabulous issue. natch.

• 9. Len Jaffe  |  March 4th, 2007 at 11:19 am

  I have become a big fan of the Fretboard Journal, beginning with the Guy Clark issue (#3), and I have managed to get all of them except #1. If there is anyone out there who has a copy of the first issue to spare, and missed #3, I have an extra that Guy actually autographed. Please feel free to contact me. Thank you.

• 10. Tommy Edwards  |  March 5th, 2007 at 2:20 pm

  Enjoyed the article about Tony Rice and his D-28, as well as the rest of the issue. I was surprised that the late Craig Hoffman of Raleigh was not mentioned as one of the craftsmen who had worked on the guitar. North Carolina lore has it that Craig did quite a bit of work on 58597, as well as on some of Norman Blake’s instruments. Perhaps Mr. Dudley or Mr. Rice could let us guitar history buffs know if the stories are true.

• 11. Art Dudley  |  March 6th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

  Hi, and many thanks for reading the piece about 58957. Tony’s new case is a 3-D blue carbon fiber case made by Accord (see: www.accordcase.com). It replaces a much heavier Anvil case that Tony used for years to transport whichever dreadnought he was using at the time, be it a Santa Cruz or “the antique.”

  Over the course of many interview hours with Tony and with others, the name Craig Hoffman didn’t come up, but I’ll do my best to find out — and will write a follow-up if need be. Thanks!

• 12. paul szmanda  |  March 12th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

  Hey yall,
  I have to say I had given up on so called “guitar magazines” because they have become ad magazines. I have been out of touch for a while but when I saw The Fretboard Journal it was trully like a breath of fresh air. Really…. Serious historic things are going on with fretted instruments at this moment and you are giving them the dignity and attention they deserve. I trully Thank You
  paul

• 13. Jaimie  |  March 15th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

  Holy moly…just checked out the Accord Cases mentioned in the posting above and they look pretty darn cool…for $1400. Yikes.

• 14. LT  |  April 7th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

  Art, thanks for the great article on Tony and 58957.

  I have a question about the repair history that popped up in the piece. The article states that “as far as anyone knows,” Randy Wood is the only person to have removed the neck when he did a reset soon after Tony bought the guitar. In Richard Hoover’s accompanying piece, he writes that during their first meeting, Tony approached him to do some setup work on the guitar (ca.’77) and that in addition to other problems, the guitar, “…boasted worn-out frets, a buzzing nut and a neck angle that needed to be reset. I took on the work…”

  Surely Randy Wood would not have left that much work for Richard Hoover to fix less than a year later.

  Also, another interesting puzzle is found on YouTube.com…

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKhWePGNPc

  This is a clip of the Country Boys performing “Whoa Mule” on the Andy Griffith Show. Towards the end of the clip there is a good shot of a very young Clarence White playing 58957 (look at the soundhole). The fretmarkers on that bound “Gretsch blank” really got my attention. Never saw them before — nor did I know they ever existed!

  Cheers,
  lt

• 15. LT  |  April 10th, 2007 at 9:02 am

  Ha! The answer to my previous question (Richard Hoover’s “tweak reset”) was right under my nose and within Art’s main article. The photos must have grabbed too much of my attention!

  Cheers,
  lt

• 16. Matt  |  May 25th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

  Why does FJ use asterisks instead of printing out words verbatim in the new issue?

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