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I would say the seller is or has someone bidding up the price of the mandolin, hoping for someone else to jump in on the bidding and thus net a bigger yield. However, I would hope that someone...

I love this tune and I wanted to share my feeble attempt at it.

http://youtu.be/VHslWTvhq7g

***UPDATE***

The microwave method worked like a charm. Thanks a million :-)

Another question while I've got you luthiers here. What should I do if anything to the top of my mandolin where it's rutted out? The rutted out area is about the size of a fifty cent piece. It's...

If it will hold shape for a year or so before having to straighten it again, that will be fine with me. My mandolin's top is getting rutted out from 10 years of intense playing--kind of Monroesque...

Thanks Paul. That sounds like a safer way to heat it up. Perhaps the binding will stay intact after it cools. I hope so. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for your help. What is the best method of applying head to the pickguard? Also, this pickguard is bound, so I'm thinking once I apply heat to the plastic to straighten it, the binding will...

I was given an F-5L (Mid 1990's) mandolin pick guard to install on my 99 F-5G, which has significant top wear.

The tortoise plastic on the pick guard is somewhat concave/warped and I'm hoping that...

You really need to play both of them before you decide. In my experience, The Nashville Gibson mandolins do have a traditional dovetail joint, just like the Loars have. Webers and even Weber...

Very cute. I can't keep mine away from my cases.

Gibson OAI has had this Orville wood since at least 2002. I worked at the OAI mandolin section in 2002, and when I was being trained, I noticed a stack of mandolin tops that had unusual grain. When...

I think I'd just buy three or four Gibson Loars.

I used to work at Gibson OAI, mandolin division (actually building them), and I have played mandolin for most of my life, even professionally, and Adam's Daley mandolin is not naturally distressed....

It is the Adam Steffy Daley Distressed Classic. Adam has not had it that long to have have that amount of true distressing from playing. #If that were true playing distressing, then Daley mandolins...

My well worn 1999 F-5G. #That mandolin was mint when I bought it in 99. #It has many, many hours of playing time.


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