Let's start off this section with a link to a special dobro hero's website... and all around great person! Go visit Jerry & Jill Douglas at: http://www.jerrydouglas.com/
This is Jerry and my Laurie at Merlefest '05. Hey, he whined so much we let him pose with her, OK? Or was it the other way around? Jerry, we love ya.
Bobby with Carl Wade and Barbara Schaffer, "Something Special" Band
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Carl & Barbara
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Me and Clint
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Bearing down
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Having fun
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The Meredith Album:
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Tooter & Heather
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Tooter & goodies
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Wolfgang's New One!
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Wolfgang #2
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Wolfgang #3
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Wolfgang #4
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Wolfgang #5
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Wolfgang #6
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Poff Brazilian
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Poff Brazilian/Sitka SpruceTop
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Poff Brazilan with braces
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Poff Meredith Spooled!
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Poff Bearclaw top
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Brazilian Stump Wood for Poff
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Poff Brazilian
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Poff Brazilian fretboard
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Poff Brazilian headstock
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Jammin' at Station Inn
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Blue Maple
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Adirondack
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The Bobby Poff
"Brazilian Meredith Album:
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Scheerhorn Album:
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Scheerhorn #481
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Boomer
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481 on the bench
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Tim's own
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Tim pickin
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Boomer barking out orders
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Rob & Tim
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Rob, Rez and Tim
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481 Back shot
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Tim's back
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#486 Scheerhorn
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#486 Close up
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Back of #486
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Billy Cardine's
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Stumpwood!
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Tim & Weissy
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Contact Tim Scheerhorn: (615) 441-5935 tscheerhorn@bellsouth.net
Wolfe Album:
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Curtis Burch
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Bobby & Bunky
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Maurice LePek
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Bobby, Bobby & Bill
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Picking in the park
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Between two masters
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CHB and Wolfe
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Maple galore!
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My Wolfe #162-21
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Headstock of #162-21
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Bobby's binding
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Frank & "Woof"
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Wolfe & Poff
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Bobby & Curtis
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Red Cedar
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Closeup of Cedar
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Cedar back
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Frank & #69
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Bolivian Rosewood
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Closeup
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Contact Bobby Wolfe: (704) 892-5485
resoport@bellsouth.net
The Jimmy Heffernan Workshop
Feb. 4 & 5, 2006 - Tampa, FL
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Heff is in gear!
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The class
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Andy "Oldrew" Compton
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Marty Girsch
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The brains are starting to cook
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Heff is talking technique
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Damon Wack
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Old me, FloridaBob
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Oldrew is burning some cells
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"It goes like this..."
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Showing Joe Ferradino
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Yep, Marty
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"The bar goes in the left hand..."
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Ron Mack
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Flat Pick Bruce McHenry
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Heff played along
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Bryce Thompson
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Todd Bowman
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Ask and it will be answered!
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Ron Mack on Sunday
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The Happening at Bobby's
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Frank gets a lesson
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Mister Stapelton's guitars!
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Johnny B
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Mister Rez
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The Happening
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Carl Bailey
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My Deneve
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Johnny Bellar
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Bob & Leon
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Johnny B
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Johnny B's Beard
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Johnny Bellar
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Loubro's Beard
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The Secret Weapon
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Secret Weapon 2
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Rez & Mike A
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Johnny B & Tut
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Bob Leaman's '76
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Westray
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Westray dobro
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BEARD GUITARS:
Contact Paul Beard: 1-877-737-6448 or www.beardguitars.com
Frank Poindexter:
www.frankpoindexter.com
Best Buddy in NC & his Wolfe!
(Add Pam, his wife & Bobby and Bobbie Wolfe to the list, too!)
I designed this CD album cover, CD face and case insert for Frank. What fun! I was honored. Great album released very late in 2004 and a must have if you love dobro. Get it at www.frankpoindexter.com website or County Sales.
Frank's Wolfe above on the cover is #69 and made from 100% Brazilian Rosewood with gold plated and nicely engraved coverplate and parts. It is about 10 years old and just gets better and better with age. Kinda like Frank. If you like the dobro on the Rice Brothers albums and live concert recordings, that's probably Frank playing the dobro on 99% of the songs! Check his website and you can read about Frank's long career as a pioneer of the dobro sounds we all love today.
Johnny Bellar:
Would you like to talk to Johnny Bellar? Well he likes, er make that "loves," fishing and dobros (tip - wink!) and loves people.
Call him and he'll chat your ear off... but please restrict your calls to ONLY Monday thru Sunday, 7 days a week and only 24 hours a day, Please. (615) 397-5654. If you miss him, leave a message and he will call you back. No poo poo. Tell him Rez told you to call and you receive an extra 10 minute bonus chat. Hey, this is a dobro man's dobro man. He is from Neptune.
ALERT! Stolen Wolfe!
THIS WOLFE RESONATOR GUITAR BELOW WAS STOLEN A WHILE BACK FROM A FRIEND OF BOBBY WOLFE IN A HOME BURGLARY. IF YOU SEE IT, PLEASE CALL BOBBY at his shop in Davidson, NC at 704-892-5485. Very distinctive Red Brazilian wood and coloring. Poinsettia/Lyre coverplate. Maple neck.
 
close up of back Headstock shot
Notes from Bobby "FloridaBob":
Yes, we know Dobro(R) is a registered trademark owned by Gibson. However, most of us in the resonator guitar warp refer to all of the reso guitars generically as being a "dobro." No offense Gibson.
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FREE DESKTOP IMAGE BELOW:
THIS IS A SCREENSAVER/DESKTOP SHOT FOR YOUR COMPUTER BELOW SET AT 640 x 480 and it will scale to your own desktop! Enjoy. The dobro is an old Regal, circa 1980. The color reflecting in the coverplate is from a stained glass lamp nearby.
GET STARTED: Right click on the photo and save as into your WINDOWS directory. Then, right click on your current desktop and choose PROPERTIES... then select this as your desktop. Bingo!
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