I'm totally new here ... just getting started on the mandolin but I have some fundamentals down in the violin & guitar. (I understand the principles, just having the fits dealing with the small fingerboard, etc.)
The other day in a local used equipment store I saw an F-style handmade "Vernon Powell" mandolin and it's driving me crazy trying to find out who this luthier is. Naturally I used my best google-fu powers, even tried Bing and eBay search functions and literally nothing is coming up about this person. Does anyone know anything of a luthier named Vernon Powell? He may be based out of Louisiana, that was the most information I could obtain. Every other search is turning up various similar names but nothing to do with mandolins. Some help would be greatly appreciated before I decide to buy this thing or not. You would think there'd be something, but so far nada.
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