Gibson finally fixed the eagle beak scroll! This is huge.
Gibson finally fixed the eagle beak scroll! This is huge.
Oh yeah, one more bit. BA in Music from CCM. MBA from Xavier, don’t tell anybody. Just finished paying off my student loans last year - and I am 53 years old.
No formal luthier training. No...
Couple more things to add - been building mandolins full time for 20 years. Been rebuilding flathead Ford transmissions for 13 years.
I think the key to being able to make it is to be able to...
By the way that means I work 7 days a week - not 3 on mandolins and 2 on transmissions.
I make a little money. Happily married to a nurse who makes good money and has health insurance. Normal life with two kids, two cats, and a mortgage that is ALMOST paid off. Not much possibility...
Here's another guy playing the Karasik Loar. Great fun to get to play this a bit.
https://youtu.be/M-a1FbFCe4Q
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Here's a more detailed story, with the jury questionnaire...
https://blabbermouth.net/news/gibson-wins-jury-verdict-against-dean-over-guitar-shapes
I used to preface my opinions with "It's my...
When I heard J D Crowe's band in Lexington in 1969, Doyle Lawson played an instrument built by Homer Ledford, better known, I believe, for his mountain dulcimers. Me and my friends chatted a bit with...
Ah, the controversial 50's F5s. You would think with Bill Monroe going strong by the 50's Gibson would have been overrun with orders. Many forget the F5 and the F12 were custom ordered instruments....
There was a little pocket of "early bluegrass" in southern Ohio; Jim & Jesse recorded and played out of Cincinnati as The Virginia Trio (with Larry Roll), the Osbornes started in Dayton, worked both...
Agree with that. Not many folks have seen and thoroughly studied enough of them. General knowlegde has grown in last 10-15 years but some details emerge now and then and it will take time till...
John's example is typical but the specs settled in mid 23 and earlier Loars show some odd features like different wood selection, f hole size, tone bar shape etc. There are not many of those around...
Got an amazon email saying they had them back in stock. I bought a white crossrock fiberglass case. So far it has exceeded my expectations. Really well designed. Someone had mentioned that the case...
yes, the 50's and 60's F5 and F12 were custom order only instruments, or made to order. A dealer would normally get a downpayment (it varied) and the order was placed. It could take 6 months to 2...
I was sitting in my apartment here in Bellingham this morning when I heard some music being played in a park right behind the building where I live. It sounded like a mandolin and a bass (sounded...
Musical instruments, outside of furniture sized pieces - and with a few exceptions, were generally considered objects that would wear out and get replaced. Guitars, mandolins, and banjos especially...
Ditto what Marty said. Also, though it may go without saying, I would recommend using an X brace instead of the Gibson-style lateral brace that tends to come unglued.
I've built several of these...
My Crossrock silver fiberglass case arrived today and I took some photos as I unboxed and looked her over. Here are some photos of the case:193971
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Impressions: The...
One of the more interesting, and difficult jobs I ever had, was the restoration of what was probably Gibson's first doubleneck guitar: The "Jack Penewell Twin Six."
It was a modified 1930's Roy...
I have studied this subject extensively over the years. My F5Journal, if you have ever seen the print version documents the entire metamorphosis for F5 Mandolin peghead inlay. In general, the...
Here is my latest. Not an exact Griffith copy, as I have not seen the original. But more of a concept instrument of the possible existence of a second Loar signed A5.
Pic guard by Darryl Wolfe,...
This thread got me jogging the old memory banks as I recall owning (many moons ago) an original custom F-5 with an oval hole made in the early 1960s. As fate would have it, my wife Tracy showed up...
It’s been a few years since I’ve been, but I remember the house band at Robert’s Western World being outstanding. They’d been playing there since 1995, and they were tight. Great steel guitar! They...
Winter has barely started.
Guitar show sounds fun.
When I went for first and only time 2or3years ago:
Carters was the best !
Gruhns was great too. I bought a baseball hat with their logo because...
Yes, Broadway has turned into something like Bourbon Street on steroids. It's pretty much mayhem and high prices. You'll find better food and music elsewhere.
And yes, we probably have the best...