One-piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 15th fret. Solid, flat-sawn, hand-carved select flamed maple back and sides from Northern Michigan. With the assistance provided this year by the Kentucky Arts Council Folk Apprenticeship Grant, he hopes to add guitars to his ever-growing list of instrument achievements. Whether hes picking on a guitar, a mandolin, or a banjo, he attacks his. Kentucky KM-1000 Master Model Mandolin Features: Solid, hand-carved and graduated select red spruce top. Kris Patrick, from Mousie, KY, in Knott County has apprenticed at the Luthiery in Hindman since 2014, and has already built several "Uncle Ed Thomas" style dulcimers, a tenor ukulele, and a flat iron style mandolin. Known for his unique blend of bluegrass, rock, jazz, and reggae, Bush has graciously allowed the Museum to display his instrument as part of the Instruments of American Excellence exhibition.
Based on the classic and uniquely American Gibson F-Style mandolins, the KM-1500 has hand-carved and graduated top and back. The Kentucky Museum at WKU recently received a mandolin from musical legend Sam Bush. Set of 2 SRIXON Golf Ball Z-Star XV Golf Ball 2017 Model 4-Piece. The use of sustainable Appalachian hardwoods in instruments made at the Appalachian School of Luthiery is a defining feature of the Troublesome Creek Stringed Instruments label. The Kentucky master model KM-1500 F-style mandolin uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan Maple for sides, back and neck combined with a pale, fine-grained Adirondack spruce top. The adjustable compensated rosewood bridge of this Kentucky mandolin helps you to. He and his apprentice, Kris Patrick, have committed to make at least two instruments in the coming year from Appalachian hardwoods such as Kentucky Black Locust, Black Walnut, and Red Spruce. A previous awardee of the Folk Apprenticeship grant, in recent years, Naselroad received the 2016 Kentucky Governor's Award in the Arts in the Folk Tradition Category on behalf of the Appalachian Artisan Center's Hindman Dulcimer Project and in 2017, was awarded the Homer Ledford Award in Luthiery. Both master and apprentice must be Kentucky residents.ĭouglas Naselroad, a Master Luthier from Winchester, KY, has worked to establish the Appalachian School of Luthiery in Hindman, KY, since 2012. The seven recipients are folk or traditional artists who are considered masters within their community and who have identified an apprentice from the same community who has potential to become a master. The Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant provides $3,000 to a Kentucky master folk or traditional artist to teach skills, practices and culture to less experienced artists from the same community during the course of a year. Seven Kentucky master artists have been awarded Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grants from the Kentucky Arts Council.