Endorsements Videos Links

Endorsements Videos and Links

Endorsing Artists

Rick Faris

Rick Faris and MF# 2.
Rick is the lead artist for The Rick Faris Band.
Rick is the former guitar and mandolin player with The Special Consensus. He played mandolin for several years with the band before switching over to guitar. MF#2 has an Adirondack top and Maple back and sides. He also has MF#1. His son Parker has MF#50.

Rick plays the mandolin on 'Fireball' on the project 'Long I Ride". Check it out below.

Rick has projects on the Dark Shadows label.

"I use only Hinde mandolins for my recording and stage shows with Special Consensus. It has a balance in tone and volume up and down the neck which is hard to find in a mandolin. On a mic and in a jam it has a tone that catches the ears of everyone! It's got the best sound of any mandolin I've ever recorded with! Listen for it on our new release "Scratch Gravel Road" on Compass Records. Steve's craftsmanship is spot on and impressive for a single man shop operation. He's got a great ear for what a mandolin should sound like and executed it well with my mandolin. Come ask me about it anytime you see Special Consensus play and I'd be happy to let you play it and hear it for yourself."

- Rick Faris guitar and mandolin player of Special Consensus Bluegrass Band

In case you didn't know, Rick builds some awesome guitars too. Check him out at Faris Guitar Company

www.facebook.com/Faris-Guitar-Co-178178715589224/

https://www.facebook.com/rickfarispage/videos/2301406576611780/?t=12

Nick Dumas

Nick Dumas is the lead artist in Nick Dumas and Branchline and the former mandolin player for Special Consensus and Northern Exposure from the Seattle area. His mandolin has a master grade German Spruce top with a 'Chevron" flamed Maple back. He teaches mandolin between road trips and is a railroad aficionado.

Check out his facebook page at the link below.

www.facebook.com/nickdumasmusic/

https://www.facebook.com/nickdumasmusic/videos/487729802058108/?t=6

Wayne Benson

Wayne Benson and my first electric octave mandolin.
Wayne described what he was after in an octave mandolin with a short scale. 17 inch is quite short for any octave. He wanted something with the vintage tele look and the butterscotch blonde color. Working through his specs, we came up with this instrument. He is using it on tour with Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out.
Check it out if you get a chance to hear the band.

I Think I Want My Rib Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA91v54EjmE
Take a look at the web site www.iiirdtymeout.com

Junior Sisk

Junior has an Indian Rosewood Adirondack dreadnaught. Check it out when you get a chance to see Junior Sisk Band.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2x9Um9a3IE

www.juniorsisk.us

Bobby Powell

Bobby Powell Plays with Nick Chandler and Delivered. D18 # 7. Adirondack top with sunburst, Sapele Mahogany back and sides, Curly Maple binding.
Formerly of the band Carolina Blue.

Jesse Smathers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=468ovtCghPo&feature=share
Jesse plays guitar with the Lonesome River Band. Jesse is the 2017 IBMA Momentum Vocalist of the year. Congratulations Jesse!! He plays MF#18 "Betty" with an Adirondack Spruce top, Torrefied Maple back. Also Octave mandolin #3.

Chris Luquette

Chris is playing MF #39 Adirondack top with Torrefied Maple back and sides. Multi instrumentalist, guitar player with Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen, besides staying very busy as a freelance musician with several bands. Check out his new solo project
City Suite For Two Guitars.

https://www.facebook.com/Chrisluquette/videos/10219642888202099/?t=4

Grace Ellen Van't Hof

Grace plays Baritone Ukulele #1. Carved archtop and back. Engelmann Spruce top with Quilted back and sides.
Grace performs with Chris Jones and the Night Drivers as well as the Sinner Friends.

She is also a fantastic graphic designer! Check out her work. gracevanthof.com

Darrell Webb

Darrell Webb plays MF#79 with Appalachian Road Show. Sitka Spruce top with a Sugar Maple back and sides sporting a smoke burst top, tobacco burst back, sides and neck.

Check out theappalachianroadshow.com

Keith Yoder

Keith teaches at music camps all over the USA from the Steve Kaufman camp to private lessons.He teaches guitar, mandolin, banjo, and other instruments. His 2 point mandolin has a torrefied Maple back and a torrefied Sitka Spruce top.

Ed Faris

Ed Faris with archtop #1 guitar. Ed played with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for several years. He also has MF #4 mandolin. An accomplished musician, recording and sound engineer as well as songwriter.

Owner Endorsements

I wanted to let you know that I love the mandolin and the tone is fabulous!
Kathleen Brennan

I just wanted to thank you for building my violin!! It is beautiful and sounds absolutely amazing! I love playing my fiddle tunes on it! Again, thank you so much!

Haley Nitz Boiling Springs NC

MF#7 has such great tone, volume, balance and playability, I don't want to play anything else. I had gone through several mandolins. I was never satisfied with any one of those instruments.

Rick Duvernay Las Vegas NV

When I first talked Steve into making me a mandolin. I’m not really sure of what I wanted. But want I got is not only a banjo killer, But a mandolin that can be heard over a hammer dulcimer. Yea try that. It’s not that easy. But Number five turns out to be a great blues mandolin. With a lot of attention to perfection. The finish and construction is very good. The tone and volume are even all the way up the neck. Number 5 had a personality from the day Stevie handed it to me. Where most mandolins you have to beat the personality in to them. If you want a bluegrass mandolin you go to a bluegrass mandolin player to have them make you a mandolin. I may buy other mandolins. But I will never need another one. It will cover whatever type of music that comes along. Heck even my grandkids like to play it.

Dale Smith

In all honesty this is the first 'real' mandolin I've ever played in the five years I have been playing. The tone, volume, the balance and playability are all there in spades.

Bill Kammerzell

Videos

Rachel's New Mandolin

A very special night for a young lady. Follow the link and join in the fun.

https://www.facebook.com/markedetrick/videos/1850985244963449/?t=5

Special Thanks

The following are some folks who help me out with materials and some who I just need to recognize for their encouragement and support.

                                                                                        MANDOLIN CAFE and all the other builders out there. http://www.mandolincafe.com/
                                                                                        Old Standard Wood www.adirondackspruce.com
                                                                                        Orcas Island Tone Wood  www.Rockisland.com
                                                                                        Stewart MacDonald  www.Stewmac.com
                                                                                        Luthier's Mercantile    www.LMII.com
                                                                                        Cumberland Acoustic www.Cumberlandacoustic.com
                                                                                         DePaule Supply http://www.luthiersupply.com/
                                                                                         Bill James Tailpieces www.Axinc.net
                                                                                         Ameritage Cases www.ameritagecases.com
                                                                                         TKL Cases http://www.tkl.com/
                                                                                         Calton Cases http://www.caltoncases.co.uk/
                                                                                         Hoffee Cases http://www.carbonfibercases.com
                                                                                         Alessi Tuners http://www.alessituningmachines.it/
                                                                                         Bob's Guitars www.bobsguitars.com
                                                                                         The Martin Family http://themartins.homestead.com/
                                                                                         Lori King and BMAI http://www.iowabluegrassmusic.com/
                                                                                          Brian Dean Job's tears tailpieces http://www.labraid.ca/
                                                                                          Eddie Faris http://www.facebook.com/eddie.faris.7
                                                                                          Special Consensus Band www.specialc.com
                                                                                          Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice Band http://www.juniorsisk.us
                                                                                          Chuck and Sandi Millar http://www.nograsslimit.com
                                                                                          Laverne Dennis
Jeanine Thornburg
                                                                                         The Faris Family
                                                                                          My sister Donna and her husband Don. Check out their site www.folkmountaingospel.com
                                                                                          My Mom and Dad for support and work ethic
                                                                                           Last but certainly not the least, my wife Missy, and my sons Sam and Ryan for listening to the non-stop Bluegrass coming from my shop, the strange smells from the bone and binding, the lacquer smell, and the unending dust.