Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, looks over blue prints of a guitar from which he is building an octave mandolin in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, works on the headstock inlay on an octave mandolin that he is currently building in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, San Juan Mandolins, with an octave mandolin he is building in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, plays his own mandolin outside of his home north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, left, in a photo with bluegrass mandolinist Sam Bush after Wintringham asked Bush to play the first mandolin Wintringham ever made. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
An octave mandolin that Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, is building in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, San Juan Mandolins, with an octave mandolin he is building in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, sketches on paper how he is going to build a mandolin in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, walks to his shop behind his home north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Scraps of wood that Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, has used in building his mandolins in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Wood shavings of red maple that Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, created while working on a mandolin that he is building in his shop north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
The back of Bobby Wintringham’s F5 mandolins are hand carved out of red maple. The style is among the hardest instruments to make. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Bobby Wintringham, owner of San Juan Mandolins, plays one of his mandolins that he made outside of his home north of Cortez on June 28. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
