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I sent these to National, too...

Took our ~10-15 yr old RM-1 out of the case for the first time in a few months and the top coat of the finish is peeling off about a third of the back (and a spot on the top edge of the peghead).... ...

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If the goal is playability, why not a whole set of new tuners? Measure the post spacing. My first guess is that would likely be the same as on Gibsons of the period (which also had gear-over-worm),...

Got her all set up and strung with GHS ultra-lights. Talk about fun!

Though I'm more a fiddler than a mandolin picker (dig that scale!), I often teach mandolin, and my first impression is that...

Thanks for the info!

It wasn't cared for at all. A barely-perceptible amount of wear on a few of the frets are the only evidence that it was ever played. I'd bet more than I paid for that...

Here's my Supertone:
174055
It does have binding around the top, but otherwise of very minimalist construction. The neck block appears to be some kind of fiberboard.

Date stamped S-36

Just acquired a c.1936 Supertone in what looks to be hardly-ever-played shape. Looks like a pressed, laminated(?) birch(?) top.

A quick check with a mirror shows not one brace anywhere on that...

free? sign me up.

Couldn't resist at that price ($40!). It did take just a bit of modification to fit at the neck, and will need a good bit of airing out to lose its new-plywood-and-plastic stink, but otherwise not...

Anybody know which modern A-style cases are a decent fit for a nineteen-teens oval-hole Gibson, and/or which to avoid? (Just a basic hardshell case, not a custom flight case or anything like that.) ...

Yup. All that stuff is gone now.
The account looks real, but that Mark Ryan isn't the owner... Clever $#$%@!

This guy's got an H-4, an A-2z, and a 20's F-4,
Buy-it-now for $2K each! -- well, sort of....
and that's not all:
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DUH!

Of course! I've used that stuff myself on celluloid thumbpicks before!

Another question on this subject:
My 30's Orpheum/Strad-O-Lin has a light-colored quite translucent celluloid pickguard which is warped. It's a good bit thinner than a Gibson guard, so I figured...