I think the expectations game may set you up for failure. When you spend serious money, you probably expect something extraordinary, and if the thing doesn't sound like the Voice of God, you may be...
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I think the expectations game may set you up for failure. When you spend serious money, you probably expect something extraordinary, and if the thing doesn't sound like the Voice of God, you may be...
Have you posted it anywhere? I've tried to learn it several times by ear and only gotten close.
Thanks for doing this. The tab/video combination is very helpful! And your tabs have always been super-helpful in the past.
I don't usually have too much of a problem with corrosion, but I went a looong time between changing strings recently so the corrosion was very noticeable with this change. And the thing that struck...
If you search out papers on how insanely Vespel (the material they're made from) is, it's even more impressive. The stuff is really made for insanely harsh conditions.
Sounds gorgeous. I've heard a couple of really wonderful-sounding Hamletts--yours included.
Today is the 9th anniversary of its arrival. I've sold off all my other mandolins since it came, including some really great ones, including a 1988 Monteleone "Style B." It has cured me of MAS, I...
Ah yes, picks! I've used a Fender medium my entire life as am electric guitarist, and am indifferent enough with guitar picks that I literally punch them out of old hotel card-keys and credit cards....
Been playing guitar since 1979ish, mandolin since 2011. My fingers are long, but my hands aren't large, but as someone who is used to a much bigger scale, I appreciate the extra real estate that 1...
I bet "Kalamazoo!" A photo of the one at Players Vintage Instruments:
197904
Ran across this curiosity at Retrofret. I'm a fan of octave mandolin and I perked up because I thought this was a vintage guitar-bodied octave mandolin. But no--it's a mandocello. Very...
I was struck by the sound of that one when it was first posted. I think Travis had it right: "This one's really appealing."
I like Gilchrist ovals and haven't seen a Model 2 for sale since a 1997 Model 2 (I think it was #399 or 400) came up for sale in 2012. Steve has made fewer than 15 Model 2s of his 820-some...
I love that solo, but that "isolated" track isn't that much better than just listening to it on Amazing Slowdowner. A lot of bleed from other channels for the vocal/mandolin track.
Congrats. As I say, I used to own the Model 1 that was one number away from that, and it was a spectacular instrument that I never should have sold.
The Gil at TME (now sale pending) is one number from the one I owned. I really thought that thing was bottled lightning, just unbelievably good-sounding. Hard to put back in its case it sounded so...
I've played a couple of those Gilchrist "4.5s" and owned one. They ranged from "damn good" to "spectacular."
Can you simulate a narrow nut by just cutting a normal nut to simulate narrower string spacing? Or putting a narrow nut on a conventional width neck?
I, meanwhile, am one of the guys who prefers...
Heiden makes a handsome mandolin. How narrow was the nut? As you may recall, I had a super-narrow Gilchrist that I ultimately couldn't handle. And I feel like I can adapt to almost any fretboard...
Can you tell whether the one Steve's playing has a fern or a flower pot?
Steve has now put up shots of every instrument "in the white" both front and back, as well as a photo of the back stained. Just click on the serial number. See, e.g., number 755, a nice Model 3...
Welcome! I'm another guy who came to mandos after decades on guitar. Enjoy the nice regular scales and that great mandolin tone; curse the fact that you have to tune strings to the very same note,...
I'm grateful to all luthiers who post progress pics--the Dude, Gilchrist, Don MacRostie, John Hamlett, and many others I'm forgetting because I'm not looking at the monster thread where most are...
I think Gilchrist also "just saw it as good hard maple." I wouldn't attribute any hype to him.
See:...
Gilchrist's new(ish) website has a brief discussion of the D-log:
http://www.gilchristmandolins.com/misc#Dlog
And a photo of "just some of" the wood from it during the inital air drying. A lot...