Four-year member Nathan Stinnette works full time at Huss and Dalton Guitars in Virginia, remodels his house on the weekends, plays mandolin and banjo in two old-time string bands, and is trying to learn the fiddle. In his spare time he sits around and tries to remember what it was like to have spare time.
▪ bio current as of 2003
2003
AL#73 p.50 BRB7 p.24
Nathan Stinnette George Wunderlich
▪ Wunderlich builds minstrel banjos, recreations of banjos made before the various factories turned them into standardized items that standardized the way we all think about the banjo. With 6 photos.
2000
AL#64 p.50 BRB6 p.156
Nathan Stinnette
▪ Stinnette is the Huss & Dalton Guitar Co. employee in charge of converting split red spruce trees into billets of brace wood, and then into guitar braces. The article describes how the rough chunks of wood are converted into quarter-sawn boards and then how the boards are made into braces. With 15 photos.