The Beard Resonator Guitar for Grey Fox 2008 is an R Model of solid ribbon mahogany, customized with a beautiful Mother-of-Pearlinlay on the fretboard and a special, custom-cut coverplate. Pictured here is the basic model. As soon as the actual instrument has been built and customized, we'll update the photo. Rest assured, it'll be a beauty.
This year's Collings Mandolin is an MF Model with a fully carved top and back, crafted with a seasoned select spruce top and maple back and sides with tone bars. Making it unique to Grey Fox 2008, Collings will customize this year's mandolin with a beautiful festival logo. Making the 2008 model even more unique, Collings will be giving the instrument a glossy finish (most are matte).
The Martin D-28 guitar is made of East Indian Rosewood with a Sitka Spruce Top.
It will be beautifully inlaid with the one-of-a-kind custom Grey Fox inlay, as always, by the master of pearl inlay, Mr. David Nichols himself.
The 2008 Stelling Banjo will be the 15th banjo that Geoff Stelling has hand crafted especially for Grey Fox. Proceeds benefit the Grey Fox Educational Fund, which drives the Scholarship Fund, Bluegrass Academy for Kids and Grass Roots Learning Sessions. The Grey Fox Stelling Banjo will be similar in design to the one pictured here: stained Grey Fox grey, and impeccably inlayed by Geoff Stelling to be a one-of-a-kind, top-of-the-line instrument.
"It was a rainy, really rainy. It was rescue vehicles stuck in the mud rainy. The worst of it, Buddy Merriam being struck by lightning and carried out on a stretcher. The best of it, Kenny Baker coming up to our campsite, sitting on a cooler and playing guitar!"
- Vince Donahoe, Long Islander turned 17 on the Hill 1976
