The second Spirit Brandon Green Signature Model features a wider fingerboard bound with a three-ply tortoise stripe. Flamed maple was accentuated by the dark orange-brown sunburst finish. It’s flat fingerboard seems to be the preference of traditional bluegrass pickers.

For decades, strings have been treated as a commodity rather than a craft. But they’re the most critical part of the signal chain—the source of every note. If you want exceptional tone, you need a string that’s built for it.

Pitt Resophonic Guitars are built by Jerry Pitt, in
Melcher-Dallas, Iowa.
Jerry has been a dobro player for many years, and since 2014, he has stepped into the Luthier World.
Jerry builds two standard models, which he calls his
“Old Hounds.”

Will Parsons has been building mandolins for 32 of his 40 years of life. On occasion he builds guitars, banjos, mandolas and citterns, but primarily he makes mandolins.

All of Will’s mandolins are hand crafted from start to finish. He uses such woods as sugar maple and red spruce, though on occasion he may use some other native woods of Appalachia such as mahogany and walnut.