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Clearly pretty out-of-touch now! Need to put some new strings on and start practicing again. Build up the callouses....still, the Ellis is great motivation.

Possibly.
Vega made some good mandolins over the years.
Pictures would be essential to say anything more.

Note from the auction about the label from the seller.

"On Apr-05-24 at 13:45:00 PDT, seller added the following information:
******* NOTE: The label shown from INSIDE the instrument actually...

A Loar signed Gibson F5 was stolen over a year ago and has yet to be recovered.

I've had a full day with it now and man, what an instrument.

I'm not as storied or worldly as some other Cafe members, and I do not have a myriad of experience with other high end mandolins....

Yes, I know, this song has been done, redone, used, and abused, and I should have left it alone. However, I decided maybe there was a little room left in the world for a solo mandolin instrumental....

I thought the Loar era L-5's were varnished (but never checked about that). They say it's lacquer. Were the guitars laquered back then?

This is a fantastic analysis of a recently discovered L-5 which turned out to be the oldest known example! It was signed on February 28th 1923 and was in remarkable shape- just a 1940s tailpiece and...

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Happy Birthday David . . . Thank you for simply EVERYTHING . . . I'm Perpetually Grateful . . . Many many more!!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T442eyDbOzE

March 23, 1945, David Grisman born on this date in Hackensack, New Jersey.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/images/thisday/davidgrisman.jpg

This is a randomly selected event for today's date. For a...

Hi everyone, my Name is Sam Guidry and I am the owner and creator of Caseadillo Case covers and I thought I would stop by to tell our story and introduce us to the mandolin community.

My primary...

Think of the time you save not drooling over guitars you’re not going to buy…
Take a stroll outside in the sunshine, smell the flowers, greet small woodland creatures…

: )

Kirk

I'm seeing Sasquatch.

Have mentioned this numerous times - my favorites are probably the Fern Dick Kimmel owned (which I believe is now in Germany) and the Lloyd LaPlant that was played by Bob Douglas. (Although every one...

We're going to recommend that domain is likely a very unsafe place to do business. Doesn't take too long with some web searches to find a lot of people that agree with that assessment. YMMV.
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There’s a Nugget F5 that resides in Lawrence, Kansas that is amazing in all regards.

Loar #73725... sigh...

I'm not totally sure how playable this one is. It looks like it's seen more than its share of moisture over a long period of time. As far as original goes, I don't have a problem with changed parts....

Yeah, well. I didn't stop buying and selling because I was getting beat at the end and I certainly wish I was more familiar with this technology stuff. It simply escapes me. :cool:

Greg Rich posted it a while back.

You have to understand how the Gibson Custom shop worked in the days of Jim Triggs and Greg Rich.

The air volume and body cavity resonance on most mandocellos works well for an octave mandolin; I make most of mine with larger bodies. The scale length will likely be a bit long, so you can use a...

I’ve put together a Monteleone Mandolin Registry at

https://monteleonemandolin.com/

If you’d like to send me vital stats (year, serial number, unique appointments, etc.) and some photos, I’ll...

It took a good long while and more wheeling and dealing (and spousal apologizing) than I've ever done, but I've managed to put together a full Lyon & Healy Quartet.

All are player grade - the...

I could not be happier with mine...the tone, craftsmanship, finish, playability, beauty, historic case, etc. are all outstanding. It's a 100% American-made original heirloom with David Harvey's...