Off colored beauties

[Mshusn]

Greetings community! I am still lurking, not posting as I have finally stopped reading so much and really practiced learning this lovely instrument. For entertainment purposes, I am fascinated with the non traditional colors, my earlier thread about black tops is something I go back to and look at often for eye candy. My next mandolin will be a strange color and I was wondering what some of you may have by way of unique colored mandolins. I love the look of The River on the mandolin store website, and would kill to get my hands on a green burst of sorts if such exists. So what do you have people? Anyone willing to show off their off colored beasts? Cheers!

Skylar

[Jim Garber]

Dale Ludewig has a few blue and green ones.

The last blue A-5 is by Max and Laurie Girouard.

[Bill Snyder]

Here are two I finished in nontraditional colors. The A-style is more maroon than the photo would suggest.

[Steve Sorensen]

Steve

[Lord of the Badgers]

I'm getting one made with dark green burst... a style f holes...

I was torn over dark red but green is a nod to my lifelong geek love for all things great western railway.

in fact i was imagining the colour of the girouard one on the first picture response - will send as a reference to the luthier

[Mshusn]

Thanks for the early responses.... Steve I have looked at your website a million times lusting after that green/blue or you listed first.... That and a Steve Hinde green burst f style are my two favorite instruments ever! Keep me coming guys!

[Tavy]

I was torn over dark red but green is a nod to my lifelong geek love for all things great western railway.

Brunswick green? Go for it! Can you get custard and cream strings to go with it?

Unleashing my inner geek yours, John.

[bernabe]

[Lord of the Badgers]

Brunswick green? Go for it! Can you get custard and cream strings to go with it?

Unleashing my inner geek yours, John.

lol well the cream's in the binding, the chocolate I suppose is the neck however - gold coloured tailpiece engraved with the "ribbons" logo (the one before the roundel). That and of course, a badger on the headstock and associated paw prints up the neck for dot markers.

Hope you weren't confusing blood & custard coach liveries

LOL. I hope it's as subtle as I imagine it!

[Eddie Blevins]

Here are a couple that I built this year. I'm also working on a Black Ice and a Green Burst.

[MandoHog]

Here is one of my favorites.

[Magnus Geijer]

I'm rather pleased with these two:




/Magnus

[Django Fret]

This one was built by Jim DeCava:

[fatt-dad]

previously posted on this site by luthier Dave Cohen. If I recall correctly there is no gray stain involved. It was some concoction of steel wool, vinegar (?) that was rubbed over the wood to trigger some chemical reaction.



f-d

[Lord of the Badgers]

I really like the sides and neck colour on that one f-d!

[Max Girouard]

This was one of my favorites that Lauri stained............

[Mshusn]

Wow the blues are incredible on the back of the oe above...thanks fr posting ma! Mr. Blevins... Your blue one is another of my faves nw, I'm getting MAS

[barry k]

This one is in Colorado, matches his banjo

[Tom Coletti]

This was one of my favorites that Lauri stained............

Can I swim in it?

--Tom

[Max Girouard]

Barry, that is wild! Here is a photo of the green/blue one from the front and also a picture of the back with sealer applied. You can't swim in it but you can swim with it. Photo taken above our pool. It was hard to get the true color on camera, it always wanted to shift to the green end.

[Mshusn]

Oh my eyes! The flames are a bit more than I can handle lol! That blue over the pool is a totally different look max! Awesome stuff y'all

Skylar

[David Houchens]

This one was a while back. probably my most nontraditional.

[billhay4]

I'm rather pleased with these two:

You should be. Nice.
Bill

[redwhite]

I'm rather pleased with these two:



/Magnus

I love this thing. Who made this?

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[Marty Jacobson]

Why, Magnus did... it is nicely designed and executed, isn't it?