Podcast 78: Guitar Maker Michael Bashkin

Michael Bashkin’s life took a unlikely turn when the former New
Jersey resident enrolled as an Art major at the University of
Montana. “Living in Western Montana, I quickly discovered the
outdoors and developed a strong interest in natural resources and
forest management,” Bashkin says in this 40-minute podcast
interview. “I [then] switched my major to Forestry.”


Bashkin would go on to spend several years in laboratories and in
the woods, researching trees and forest ecology. “It was during
my master’s program that I got bitten by the guitar bug,” he
says. “At some point, my thinking about the trees did shift.”
Since 1998, he’s been bulding instruments full-time in Fort
Collins, Colorado. 


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