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I was on The Acoustic Shoppe waiting list for the new F5G and it is everything I could have wanted. Very happy with it.

hello stevo75
i can offer my own journey of late.
i own/have owned in the past 3 years the following:

Gibson F9-2021, flat FB, 1 1/16" nut width, small vintage frets, no Florida
Gibson...

And don’t be scared of a Florida - if you like the mandolin, a luthier can scoop it in no time - you can even do it yourself, if you are handy and talking about a player. I scooped a Paganoni; I...

I checked out 3 Acoustic Shoppe wide nut, radiused board F9s. The tricky part about Gibsons, even Harvey era (which the 3 I tried were) is that they aren’t super-consistent. I thought one of three...

Acoustic Shoppe Custom F9 came with a wide nut, radiused fretboard, and jumbo frets.

Gibson pretty much halted mandolin production well over a year ago.

They finally re-introduced the F-5G a couple of months ago, and introduced a "1923 F-5 Master Model Reissue."
The F-9 is not...

I've found Jokko's picks to be very similar in quality and sound.

https://www.manouchepicks.com/

https://www.timber-tones.com/resin-tones-329-c.asp

Never tried one but i've ordered other materials (horn, bone) from them, they're good picks

I’m a fan of Apollo. Yes, $45 is a steep price, but there is a 40 day return window. I bought my first one this past May and haven’t used another pick since. I haven’t used an EML or any other casein...

Red Bear: https://www.redbeartrading.com/ccp8/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=RBFPICKS

Use a strap.

Hi Perry,

Of course there's no one way to go about learning chord melody. That's part of what's so exciting about it. I appreciate that the steps you listed have been a gateway into the style...

No Dan, you didn't overlook that video. It was posted in late 2020 and the bulk of this thread is from 2017. It's one of the best I've seen regarding mandolin pick grip. (I'm sure it's posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3MV8zLk5Pw

You are not going to believe this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiija5dBBIw

Or Northumbrian too.
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In these videos, I show what was taught to me by a Performing Arts Medical Assn doc who helped me be able to play again after severe overuse injuries.


https://youtu.be/0mDNJnKVO6A

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I don't have the taste buds to distinguish between cheap ( two buck chuck) wine and expensive wine but I do have the ears to distinguish between BC picks and Wegan or any other pick I have played...

I agree. That is a very pronounced radius.

Here is an illustration of the curvature of three representative radii that might give the OP a little help identifying where his radius falls.

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Looking at the Northfield website: https://www.northfieldinstruments.com/artist-series Looks like the Artist Series comes standard with a compound radius. 5.7" at nut, and 7.7" at the 20th fret....

Your bowlback (the one that Bill Monroe used to play) would now be worth about $150,000.

https://youtu.be/6I27_ZL5TtU

Again, I don't understand why that is a criteria for improvisation? The whole idea behind improvisation is that one plays a spontaneous composition of one's own, extemporaneously. If it was designed...

That's some good bluegrass

are you talking about the song or Thile's hairdo? :whistling: