Michael began hanging around boatyards and wooden boats in New England when he was ten. He started getting paid to be there when he was 12. Lessons in craftsmanship and woodworking were patiently and lovingly offered by a group ...

Eric was the first person hired during Michael's year-long stint helping Gurian Guitars get back on its feet, following a 1979 fire. In those days he was fond of pitching tape balls and playing Neil Young tunes. Eric built his f ...

Even though he came through a musical family, took up the bass at thirteen and started gigging with “a real grown-up country band” at fourteen, trained in electronics, became a builder, then a contractor, then a master carpenter ...

Adam joined the Froggy Bottom shop this fall, bringing a fondness for mandolin and guitar playing, instrument building and repair. Adam has trained and worked beside repairman Bob Jones in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and headed up the ...

After 26 years of collision repair work, in 2000 Larry focused his spray gun on a different sort of vehicle for the human spirit: the mandolin. After finishing mandolins for six years, he's now focused on Froggy Bottom Guitars. ...

One of the rare natives of Ithaca, NY and its music scene, Kristina is a musician, recording engineer and producer of singular vision.  In true Vermont fashion, she is also an avid and expert gardener.

Founder of Iris Lines Designs, Barb wrote her first computer programs by making holes in cardboard punch cards in the 1970s. She spent twenty-eight years as a classroom teacher, librarian and computer maven in educational settings ...

You may have seen Scott cradling Froggy Bottom Guitars in various print ads, or heard his music on XM radio’s Bluesville. Scott’s a working musician and author of a book and instructional DVD on the music of Delta Blues legend R ...

For more than a decade Herve worked as a Boston-based editorial and advertising photographer. He worked with New Balance, Wang, American Airlines, Inc. Magazine, the Charles Hotel, Boston Magazine, and MIT.

Chris founded Diligent Design in 2002, soon after graduating from Marlboro College's Graduate Center in Vermont. Although he specializes in web site and software design and development, he's loved every minute spent exercising h ...