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I highly recommend "If It Sounds Good, It Is Good" By Richard Manning. No mandolin content, but a great read for any musician.

There's one too many digits in that price.

I don't really know. The standard Gibson "Double Mandolin", as that was called, came with a standard 6 string neck and an octave 6 string neck, so the 6 string/8 string version was probably custom...

I'm partial to some of the guitar/mandolin double necks.190865
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I was looking up something in my Gruhn's Guide to vintage Guitars, and he notes 4 A5 mandolins-the late 50's - early 60' 2 point oval hole style, that had violin scroll pegheads. I "think" that I...

I live about 2 miles from Greg's shop, but he's closed for walk-ins. I'm dying to play those mandolins, and he also has two early 60's Epiphone Texans that I'd like to try.

You've heard me play...?

Well, I'm screwed then...189956

It's 11934

A truss rod and "paddle" peg head would indicate 1922 or 1923.
If you don't want to enlarge the endpin hole, you could use one of these: http://www.tapastring.com/Vintage_Jack_for_Mandolin.htm

A friend of mine contacted me, looking for a recommendation for a luthier that can repair a serious top crack on a teens Gibson mandolin. From the look of the picture they sent, there's probably...

I had a chance to play one a few years ago, and it really knocked me out! Congratulations.

As far as a magnetic pickup goes, I don't know of anything specifically for mandolin. The one exception is a vintage Dearmond pickup, which are rare and expensive There are numerous floating pickups...

I think that, in 40+/- years of using D'Addario mandolin strings, I've had 2 that slipped at the loop end and broke. I used the J74's up until a couple of years ago, then switched to the J73's. I...

Did you go to the Jethro workshop in '83?

According to Gruhn's Guide to vintage guitars, the A50 had an oval soundhole in '33 only, and had a silkscreened logo that year. The A4 from that period had no inlay, other than the Gibson logo. Both...

1934-35 a4?

I met a girl named Amanda Lynn in Atlanta years ago. She was a friend of the teenaged sister of a friend of mine, and didn't even know what a mandolin was. She didn't appreciate me teasing her about...

It's a style A from before 1917, when they started staining them brown. An A1 would have the Gibson logo in pearl on the peghead.

Afew years ago, someone posted about one of those that they had converted to a 5 string with fanned frets. It was a really cool thing to do with one.

I have a 10 year old Epiphone MM-30a/e that has one brace running right down the middle of the top. It seems to be fine.

They were't using truss rods until 1922, so if that is the correct FON, maybe it got re-necked at some point.

I have a 16" scale electric mandola that fits perfectly in one. It's 28" long and 11" wide187103(The mandola).

I carry my electric mandola in a tactical rifle bag. It's nicely padded, has a shoulder strap, and a bunch of pockets. It cost less than $40.

Nice! Here's my version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdILhHcoSbs&feature=emb_logo