Re: Montana Gibson Mandolin Specifications
Originally Posted by
DataNick
Henry,
I always value and learn a lot from your posts!
Knock on wood so far with my 94' F5L...no neck joint problems. A friend of mine just picked up a 1993 F5G, I think Weber signed....killer mando!
Not to add any confusion to this thread but I once talked to Bruce Weber about this (maybe 4 -5 years ago) in a conversation about my Weber octave I happened to ask him if the neck joint in a Weber was the same as those in the original Flatirons. As I recall he said "they are very similar" - -then explained that he had made some slight changes that he considered improvements on the original "tenon-mortise with bolt" Flatiron design. He also mentioned that at the time of that conversation that Weber had not seen a case of neck joint failure with one of their mandolins. I'd say that is further evidence that this design is more or less "bullet proof".
Bernie
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