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Yesterday, 9:38pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread Quality tuners for F style - opinions welcome in Builders and Repair

Those look like Mini tuners. How about a picture of the back of the headstock. If they aren't all on a plate then you may not want mandolin tuners.

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Yesterday, 6:53pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Ibanez 513 (Selmer/Maccaferri D-Hole) in Videos, Pictures & Sound Files

Thanks for the clarification. It was from that era not the subject of a lawsuit. I do know what the lawsuits were about.

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Yesterday, 6:26pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread finding someone in Forum Software Support

It appears he has a Youtube channel as well.

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Yesterday, 6:23pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread Quality tuners for F style - opinions welcome in Builders and Repair

Post a picture of the Goldtone tuners and one shaft without the buttons.

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Yesterday, 6:21pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread Best way to fix this bowed neck? in Builders and Repair

Generally very few, if any, luthiers will jump up and say they do neck repairs on bowlback mandolins. You pretty can do whatever floats your boat....

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Yesterday, 2:44pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Gratitude in General Mandolin Discussions

I have a feeling that the poster of "What is the best brand of mandolin to buy?" is a chatbot, at least it says that with a link to a site in...

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Yesterday, 2:42pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Gratitude in General Mandolin Discussions

You need to get around to the guitar equivalent of Mandolin Cafe, umgf.com or acousticguitarforum.com. There are plenty of folks there that list...

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Yesterday, 2:29pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Torn between 2 mandolins. / Eastman serial number question? in General Mandolin Discussions

Keep both mandolins and sell the dog! :) What? No dog? Sell the Bovier and refret the Eastman with larger frets.

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Yesterday, 2:21pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Ibanez 513 (Selmer/Maccaferri D-Hole) in Videos, Pictures & Sound Files

What lawsuit? It really doesn't look like anything else except maybe Selmer Maccaferri style guitars.

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Yesterday, 1:02pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Sweep picking on mandolin? in Theory, Technique, Tips and Tricks

On page 49 of Bickford Mandolin Method Volume 4 there is an etude called "Arpeggios on Four Strings" followed on the next page by "The Arpeggio on...

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Yesterday, 12:30pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread What's your new fiddle tune? in Old-Time, Roots, Early Country, Cajun, Tex-Mex

Sometimes slowing down a tune wrings out the flavors and emotions expressed in playing. I will also say that his excellent playing is perfect demo...

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Yesterday, 12:20pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Sweep picking on mandolin? in Theory, Technique, Tips and Tricks

That is basically an arpeggiated chord and I believe is sometimes called a harp effect. Why not? That is what music is about. Starting on page 60...

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Mar-01-2021, 10:14pm

MikeEdgerton started a thread Plans for the Gibson Kalamazoo Site in General Mandolin Discussions

NMC ...

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Mar-01-2021, 8:52pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Mandolin Café Women's History Month in General Mandolin Discussions

I had a lot of fun hanging out with Lorraine way back in the 1980s. She was the staff assistant in the one and only Jethro class at Augusta. What a...

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Mar-01-2021, 7:24pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Mandolin Café Women's History Month in General Mandolin Discussions

Here's a few from olden days from my collection to go along with that wonderful modern banner:

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Mar-01-2021, 7:13pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Best strings for a Lyon & Healy type C mandolin in Equipment

Wow! The thought of playing old time music on a mandolin with an eBow! I can't imagine... No, I knew what you were talking about. I use Thomastik...

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Mar-01-2021, 6:44pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Do You Have Too Many Instruments? in Videos, Pictures & Sound Files

I have the smaller Tsumura book and the many of the minstrel banjos pictured there IIRC came from the Reuben Reuben collection. Very interesting...

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Mar-01-2021, 6:36pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Music Store Etiquette in General Mandolin Discussions

Simplest way is to "Reply With Quote" then edit to leave what you want to comment on. You don't have to remember any code for that. You can also...

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Mar-01-2021, 5:06pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Olive wood for mandolin body? in Builders and Repair

I have a favorite kitchen spatula and spoons made from olive wood. Bill Kirkpatrick is a ex-pat musician who used to hang around here a bunch who...

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Mar-01-2021, 5:03pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Best strings for a Lyon & Healy type C mandolin in Equipment

I only use these T-I strings on my L&H mandolin. Yes, I would play it for whatever genre I thought it would sound good in. For my other instruments I...

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Mar-01-2021, 3:36pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Bar frets in Builders and Repair

For some odd reason—I am truly not sure why—the Luigi Embergher shop used bar frets on their instruments for the life of the shop into the 1950s even...

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Mar-01-2021, 3:08pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread KM-1500 neck issue in Builders and Repair

There's no money above the 7th fret so you should be good. Move it along as a project and see if you can get at least some of your money back.

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Mar-01-2021, 3:05pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread About new fretboard for old Gibson A jr. in Builders and Repair

Or find or commission a new instrument from a maker to duplicate the tones yu love with the neck/fretboard you want. Mike Black comes to mind and...

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Mar-01-2021, 3:03pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Do You Have Too Many Instruments? in Videos, Pictures & Sound Files

Are you talking to me? I had felt some miniscule twinges of guilt about my accumulation/collection and then, many years ago had visited a friend...

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Mar-01-2021, 2:59pm

Jim Garber replied to a thread Best strings for a Lyon & Healy type C mandolin in Equipment

I own two L&H mandolins and initially I avoided the Thomastiks since many years before I used them on my Gibson and absolutely hated them. However, I...

8 replies | 286 view(s)

Mar-01-2021, 2:24pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread KM-1500 neck issue in Builders and Repair

For posterity. I'm assuming you bought this used. Is that the case?

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Mar-01-2021, 12:59pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread Kentucky Brand Mandolins-opinion in Looking for Information About Mandolins

Years ago I wrote a program to search the Cafe that allowed me to retain the search information in a link. I used it for several years but the Google...

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Mar-01-2021, 12:47pm

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread Do You Have Too Many Instruments? in Videos, Pictures & Sound Files

With apologies to Steven Wright... I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of banjo mandolins. I store them in landfills and attics...

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Mar-01-2021, 11:22am

Jim Garber replied to a thread Music Store Etiquette in General Mandolin Discussions

It looks very nice and it would be local so you could play before buying. Ideal. I would not wait too long. The mandolins in these ads go pretty...

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Mar-01-2021, 9:30am

MikeEdgerton replied to a thread Kentucky Brand Mandolins-opinion in Looking for Information About Mandolins

Unfortunately linking to a Cafe search ID like you have gets nothing for the O.P. You can however use Google to search and post that as a readable...

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