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The Froggy Bottom Guitar Blog
By Scott Ainslie
My initial entry here is drawn from my interview with Imaginary Road Studios engineer Corin Nelsen on how Froggy Bottom Guitars behave in the studio. Our conversation took place as I was preparing an extensive article on Froggy Bottom Guitars, published in the Fall issue of The Fretboard Journal (2010). Space considerations kept this material out of the Journal’s pages, so we thought we’d provide it here.
We’re planning to populate this Frog Blog with similar brief snapshots of conversations and interviews that highlight some aspect of the builder’s choices, materials, use and behaviors of Froggy Bottom Guitars. I have a number of questions that I’ll be asking Michael and the other craftsmen in the Froggy Bottom shop from time to time; I’ll report back here as these conversations proceed.
If you have suggestions of topics or questions you’d like to see discussed here, you may
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and we’ll see about getting them addressed as these conversations move along.
We hope to build up a body of information that is useful and interesting for Froggy Bottom owners and others. Your contributions will be gratefully received.
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Wooden boats
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Fretboard Journal
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When engineer Corin Nelsen and I were mixing my latest CD at Imaginary Road Studios here in Vermont, Cor ...