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I have always placed Andy Statman in a category all his own. There is no one that plays like him. Been listening to him since his Breakfast Special/Country Cooking days. So many great recordings but...

That may be so but I have noticed that other mandolin players seem to appreciate his playing a lot. He's got his own style, that's for sure.

Tommy Burroughs. I think he's known around Nashville but that's about it. A name you don't hear much but a distinctive & highly advanced player.

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

At a certain level it becomes hard to rank. I mean, they're all great in different ways. Like, who was better Rembrandt, Monet or VanGough. Really comes down to a matter of taste. Anyway, I like all...

Some of the bluesiest mandolin ever played was featured on the album "The Legendary Kentucky Mandolin of Nolan Faulkner" on Old Homestead Records.
Here are some tracks:

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It's a fantastic album!

I spent a week at a camp where David Harvey was an instructor. Talking with him throughout the week I came away thinking wow, there's no one who knows more about Gibson mandolins than this guy. When...

Hah! That would be the day. Re-profiling might be a bit of an overstatement. I like the U-shaped profile as shown below. Northfield's have what they call a rounded V. I found there was a slight...

I'm not much of a woodworker kind of guy. The only power tools I've owned are a drill & a small circular saw. But I acquired a Northfield with some of the finish on the neck worn off. The previous...

I love that album. One of my favs.

Congrats. Sounds like things worked out perfectly. And I agree with several others - you absolutely did the right thing by letting the vendor know. In this day & age it's always good to see someone...

Yeah, talk about your "bait & switch".:grin:

I don't know if this is a non-starter for you or not but, if the store does financing, you may want to keep it & just finance the remainder of the cost. The rates, from what I've seen, are pretty...

1969. At one point in the interview he mentions the lack of a bass player & that Tony overdubbed the bass on an upright. I keep trying to picture that in my mind but I can't quite get there.

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That's what I wound up doing. A full turn got rid of the buzzing but it felt a bit high for playing so I lowered it by a quarter turn & now everything is fine, no buzzing but not hard to play....

Looks like between 2 & 3/32.

I just received a Northfield NF-S and need to raise the action a bit. How much do you have to turn the wheel, typically, to make a noticeable difference? Should I be thinking in terms of quarter...

If someone was to comb those old variety shows they would probably unearth lots of interesting stuff. Those shows were on five days a week & they had a ton of content to fill.

Starting to see more & more mandolins featuring wide nuts. Is this a thing? Are mandolin players starting to gravitate towards a wider fretboard?

I chose "mandoman.com" as an email address. Thought I it was a good choice until people started saying they thought it was "man-do-man". Needless to say, that account didn't last long.

Well put. I agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjmX26n1EA

I wasn't sure what I thought about this at first. On one hand, sure, you could say there's too many notes, it's too flashy, too far from the melody and...

Affordable small builder:

https://johanssonmandolins.com/

Nice. What kind of mandolin is that? Sounds great.

That's how I heard it as well.