{"id":2,"date":"2012-05-11T20:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T20:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-05-13T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T16:37:13","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Mandolin Luthier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/professional_mandolin_luthier1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7 \" title=\"Professional Mandolin Luthier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/professional_mandolin_luthier1.jpg\" alt=\"Professional Mandolin Luthier\" width=\"250\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/professional_mandolin_luthier1.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/professional_mandolin_luthier1-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Van Loenen, Luthier<\/p><\/div>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>While cutting Engelmann Spruce for a log home he was building in Dolores County, Brad&#8217;s father would comment to him, &#8220;There are 2,000 violin bellies in that tree!&#8221; This fine source of Southwestern Colorado high-elevation Engelmann Spruce was the inspiration to begin building mandolins. Brad&#8217;s father, Rich, continues to be the Main Spruce Hunter and Tool Modification Expert, and prepares the rough stock from which the mandolins are built.<\/p>\n<p>Brad began building mandolins in 2002, in a workshop at the top of an old, woodstove-heated barn. No CNC or computer-aided tools are used. Brad is a self-taught Luthier who realized immediately that only experience and being in a constant state of evolution would produce the highest-quality instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Brad earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Music Performance at the University of Colorado at Denver, and has played bass professionally for over twenty years. He discovered a love for the mandolin in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cutting Engelmann Spruce for a log home he was building in Dolores County, Brad&#8217;s father would comment to him, &#8220;There are 2,000 violin bellies in that tree!&#8221; This fine source of Southwestern Colorado high-elevation Engelmann Spruce was the inspiration to begin building mandolins. Brad&#8217;s father, Rich, continues to be the Main Spruce Hunter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcmandolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}