slowhand6's Case

A gift from my mentor Jeff Hostetter to show me how to do setup work on dobros, this started out a pretty unimpressive instrument. They retail for about $120. However, after manipulating the cone ring by removing wooden baffles, then leveling the rim of the ring for the cone to sit on, then upgrading to a Beard cone, removing the heel rest over the bridge, adding rosewood-tipped split saddle and    more >

This guitar won the John Lennon songwriting contest in the Christian category with its previous owner, Clint Lagerberger. It is my go-to guitar. Originally it had a Fishman soundhole humbucker pickup. I installed a Fishman Aura undersaddle piezo pickup in it in 2007. Inlay artist Amy Hopkins scribed a banjo inlay pattern on the fretboard, modeled after the inlya pattern on Jerry Garcia's Alembic    more >

My uncle gave this guitar to me so that I could learn how to play when I was twelve. I nearly destroyed it. He asked for it back when I was fourteen. He then gave it to me again when I was twenty three and got married. I had the neck reset, cracks repaired in the back and sides, and the bridge reglued. There is now a Fishman Aura undersaddle piezo pickup in it that I installed with my mentor    more >