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Playing Since: 1976

Experience Level: Expert/Professional

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: Luthier, Teacher, Webmaster

Gender: Male

Age: 46

My Instruments:
1989 Dotson Wreath #3
1929 Gibson Style 4 Mahogany TB conversion with Hearts and Flowers inlay and a Steve Huber HR-30 Tone Ring

2007 Richie Dotson RB-3 copy (Dotson name in Headstock) with a Huber tone ring and a ?Special? but secret wood rim. You wouldn?t believe this thing. I laugh when I think of how simple it was to make the change I did and what a great range this banjo has. Rosewood fingerboard on a mahogany and the tone is dry, hollow and has loads of personality ... better volume than any of the other banjos in my arsenal.

2008 Style 3 (leaves and bows) with Huber Tone Ring, old wood rim and a Tim James neck. This banjo is a true Frankenstein, but holy cow, this is at the top of the food chain for the sound I want. Jason and Doug, thank you for this happy, happy banjo accident! This one won't be going anywhere.

8 Japanese imports

1924 Washburn with a retro 5-String neck. Not a powerhouse, but really nice tone. Different from a pre-war Gibson?s slightly complex overtones and typically dry timbre, but spookily close, and I associate that with the octogenarian wood rim.

5 or 6 P.O.J. banjos or parts enough to supply an impaired orchestra of hillbilly pigmies.

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Flatt and Scruggs
The Osborne Brothers
New Grass Revival
The Bluegrass Album Band
Nashville Bluegrass Band
Bill Evans
Bill Keith
Ron Block
Bobby Thompson
Mike Snider
doug dillard
Ronnie Barnes (my local hero)
The Stanley Brothers
Doyal Lawson and Quicksilver with Terry Baucom or Scott Vestal or Jim Mills ...well, I guess Mr Lawson hasn't had a bad banjo player, now has he?
Anyone else who didn't stop at only 4 chords and one first generation band style.

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Created 8/31/2003
Last Visit 5/21/2013

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Richie Dotson's Photo Album

Pre War Gibson style Pips (5th string nuts) 1 comment	Me holding Bill Evans 1933 Flathead Granada 1 comment	My "new to me" 2007 HD-28V Martin Guitar. Really good for a newer guitar!	Tony Trischka and Richie Dotson 1 comment
Greg Rich and Richie Dotson	Herschel Sizemore and Richie Dotson	With Bill Evans in Chesapeake, Virginia	Workshop Weekend in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Kitty Hawk, N. C. Bluegrass Workshop Weekend	Richie Dotson and Bill Keith Teaching a Workshop 2 comments	On Stage with Bill Evans and Megan Lynch	Megan Lynch Bill Evans and Richie Dotson 1 comment
Bill Evans looking	MASTERTONE Name Block 2 comments	Pike County Kentucky	Pike County Kentucky 2
Working 2 comments	Two Pre-Wars being converted to 5-String	The Rim Lathe	Gibson Parts 1 comment
Bill Evans and his Pre-War Granada	One of my Resonators 2 comments	Mastertone Block	Frank Neat Capo 6 comments
Gibson Peghead	Old Pre-War Gibson	Richie Dotson 4 comments	Unshaven and in the studio. Aint life grand?
2 comments	E=Fb 1 comment	Is Banjo Acquisition Syndrome a Problem for You? 3 comments	Tone Ring Stack
		Photo of My Shop 2 comments	Business Card
2nd run Nationals	Retrofitting a new tone ring
	Side by Side Pre-war Gibson Mastertone Banjos 2 comments		1 comment
	1 comment
Back Stage at the Skaggs Concert 5 comments	Workin' Time	Turtles	One of my Banjos
	2 comments


2 comments	Shop	1 comment	X-Government 1 comment
MASTERTONE name blocks	39 MASTERTONE blocks in this stash!	Another Project getting close	Another Banjo getting close 1 comment
Curly Maple Resonator	Catalin Gumdrops	Catalin Gumdrops	Catalin Reproduction Tuning Buttons
Catalin Reproduction Tuning Buttons

	Bill Evans and I have teamed up on 4 workshops now and they keep getting better!	Bella Voce Heel done	Bella Voce Headstock Carving
Bella Voce Headstock done	Carving the Bella Voce Neck	Picking up the Bella Voce Banjo from the shop	Picking up the Bella Voce Banjo from the shop
Getting a neck blank ready to live on a Pre War as a 5-String Conversion


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	G to C Bluegrass Banjo Lick

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