Search:

This instrument sold shortly after I posted it, but now I see it's back up for sale at the same store where I returned it...

Can we set up a Kickstarter to buy the OP some punctuation marks?

More on the late Chris Cornell:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/132535-Yet-Another-Mandolin-IDing-thread

Check out Belmuse Mandolin in Norfolk:
https://www.belvoirguitars.co.uk/mandolins

The listing price and the actual sale price aren't necessarily the same thing. $4K for a Sheraton brown A2 is far above market, so if someone paid that amount, it was only due to the thing being so...

Somewhere between 2K and 3K.

If I can't have Handels on an A4 I would prefer to get a truss rod and adjustable bridge. This one is an in-betweener with none of those features, so at least to me...

Yeah, the instruments and the way the jackets and shirts are buttoned all suggest a flopped photo. Here's a corrected version.

202298

If you've got the lettuce for a K5, you've probably got the lettuce for a plane ticket to the Bay Area to go see Stevie about it...

It might be worth taking on as a project if the price doesn't go any higher. What do you think is going on with the pickguard?

https://hibid.com/lot/126226198/gibson-mandolin--has-2-cracks-in-the-wood?ref=lot-list

Banana's phone number is right there on his website, although he says he prefers getting in touch by email.
https://www.vintageinstruments.com/

It would be nice if Ron could get people in the background to shut up while he's making demo videos.

I generally go 70-46-32-20 on the Andersen mandocello; it has a truss rod, but then again, so does the K5. Perhaps I should lighten up.

I don't think Stevie's going to keep the K5; it's a...

It hasn't been listed online yet.
http://mightyfineguitars.com/inventory?category=Gibson*

Nope.

Well, he strung it up with something! What gauges would you use?

Yep, Ron Hyde has rebuilt a number of basket-case old Gibsons and sold them on eBay. He's not at all concerned with preserving "originality." This fits perfectly.

I can tell you haven't watched Stevie's Facebook videos. Current owner's dad played it in a mandolin orchestra; it's been in storage for 50 years.

Oh, I dunno, I can go to a bluegrass festival and get half a dozen band stickers and put them on my mandolin case. It wouldn't mean anything.

It's an unusual mandolin in some respects ... I like...

Stevie is well connected within the world of acoustic instruments and knew exactly who to call to get the information he needed .

There are plenty of "guitar shops" that would have screwed this...

Stevie Coyle, guitarist for the Waybacks, now operates Mighty Fine Guitars in Lafayette, CA. A few weeks ago somebody showed up at the shop with a previously undocumented 1924 Loar K5!

There are...

That's a good question. I don't know if Gibson was already using birch for backs during this era or not.

The seller says something about not wanting to mention a certain type of wood for fear of...

This is wild.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/275396190061

Steve Andersen retired from lutherie this spring and was selling materials and shop equipment on the Seattle Craigslist.

In a trade I recently acquired a 4-string Andersen oval-hole jazz mandola —...

I'd say Stromberg-Voisinet/Kay factory rather than Regal.

But it's had some modifications done; that headstock has been worked on a good deal. As you note, those aren't the original tuners and...