Hi
Andrew from Tasmania here, a quick hello.
I bought my mandolin on ebay a few years ago, and have recently put in some time to get familiar.
I believe it is a 'modified F style'...but the tuners are same a an A (?). As you can see it hasn't taken long for the low budget tuner machine heads to start to fail, thats why there is a L7 key blank soldered on to "E2" ! (Is that what its called?)
I have had to work on the nut and bridge in hopes of playable action. And I have gone to martin strings, so far so good on both fronts.
So far none of the "bling bling" has fallen off!
It's not a permanent solution. am loolking for a pickup equipped mando of plainer style, for everyday use . I am slready seeing signs of fret wear and I play with a couple of groups with all amplified instruments. But I am not really impressed with the new one s I have tried in music shops.
Here she is:
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