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i use this set if that helps at all
Clifford Essex Ultraheavy(or another manufacturer obviously!)

maybe it's because the Pono is short scale as well - this will make it darker sounding than a gzouk.

exactly this - it's one of the holy grails amongst zouk players. He also owns a normal shaped Foley IIRC.

I've owned a Gzouk, It also sounds NOTHING like a guitar and everything like a bouzouki - but yea a different too.
That was a forster.

Check out Aus/UK musician James Fagan and his Sobell.......

i have been; but they do try to help if not

ha ha nice mistype Fox :)

I have nothing more to share with you sorry - literally that's all I know.

The good news MJBee is; this is mass production as far as tenors go. They are usually made...

I just spotted on a facebook thread on the TG page that Ashbury have just started prototyping an oval hole & f hole archtop model of tenor. There will be ones in better woods.. or something....
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He's a nice lad is Tom (his Dad too) & we have a mate in common. Hung out with him & Pons Aelius guys year before last at the most recent Purbeck Valley Folk Fest. It's a Davidson thing :)

Definitely a him - not sure why there was a doubt! As on the other thread - I'd love a bubble when i get back to the stage - but neck or mid pickups are my thing, not bridge

I know Alan. Interesting character! Lives not so far from me in the Glasto region

Kinda feel fan frets are better suited to a five string seems a bit overkill-y

I played a fan fret zouk of his...

Well, I've come over all unnecessary looking at those pics! Niiiiiceeeee!

have submitted a question to point out the dischord (pun) over the overwide nut they keep going for

ok. is that a Warren Ellis nut width or a Classic tenor nut width (their site is crap - reckons both are the same lol, 1 5/16!!!)

I actually like those less. But i suppose I that I want a funky one for stage!

also this one - less mad, but still cool (again NFI!)
https://reverb.com/uk/item/37716339-dr-k-classik-checkerboard-green-yellow

i kind of wish he'd tune it for the demo though... unless my ear infection has gotten worse... (that happened once in my life - ear infection leading to complete loss of musical ear - everything out...

I love his work. I wanna commission a tenor inspired by my band's logo. or a four string mando. only thing i'm not into is bridge pickups - my only gripe. the price is great too.

Hey Huck, couldn't see all those pics earlier - wow!! What a beauty. I don't like planetary tuners either, but I'd forgive one of these; or a charlie christian equipped ETG150 (much as I LOVE my P90...

ps there's another TG-0 (1935) on TFOA at the moment (NFI!)

there's a bunch on here who'd be able to advise re the top crack. But sadly not me! Last crack in an instrument involved repairs on Phil Davidson's vice and some super glue... that was a neck crack....

shan't be buying another mcilroy tenor then - last time TFOA had one it was €3700... !! Can't remember what I paid for mine

well actually I just don't have that kind of money to spend on a tenor...

Know what you mean... with our um, irreverent, political decisions... i've a vinyl album taking some time to get to SW England from Eire....

Fingers crossed!
Will they charge you customs duty?...

Literally had it two weeks. Never again...! The PTs are three a pack, for £8 or so... and almost as good in my view. I really had to listen for the difference. My tone is (now markedly) not great but...

Found the large primetone triangles, 1.4 to 1.5.
No need to change for me.
The grippy ones.

I had a BC. I lost it of course being brown (whyyyyy!!!????!!). Was recommended one of the white...

one comment you might get is that they 'sound too guitar like' - but as a former (regrettably so!) owner of a forster gzouk, I can tel you that's utter bobbins in my experience.
They are dead comfy...