From a tidy, modest workshop/garage, Niceville luthier Jason Sloan has been building exceptional handmade mandolins for working musicians and collectors. He built his first mandolin, an F5 style, for ...

NEW LONDON, Mo. -- Dan Ebers grew up in a musical family, but when his wife, Belinda, gifted him with a mandolin for Christmas about 12 years ago, little did he know how that mandolin would shape his ...

BAY VIEW — Like many hobbies, Dennis O’Hern’s started modestly. He started playing the mandolin as a teen, and in 1983 he bought a mandolin-making kit and assembled it. “I thought, well, I could make ...