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Michael Bashkin\\u2019s life took a unlikely turn when the former New Jersey resident enrolled as an Art major at the University of Montana. \\u201cLiving in Western Montana, I quickly discovered the outdoors and developed a strong interest in natural resources and forest management,\\u201d Bashkin says in this 40-minute podcast interview. \\u201cI [then] switched my major to Forestry.\\u201d

Bashkin would go on to spend several years in laboratories and in the woods, researching trees and forest ecology. \\u201cIt was during my master\\u2019s program that I got bitten by the guitar bug,\\u201d he says. \\u201cAt some point, my thinking about the trees did shift.\\u201d Since 1998, he\\u2019s been bulding instruments full-time in Fort Collins, Colorado.\\xa0

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