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    I was hoping by now that some cafe member might have shown up as the owner of the squidolin. I wonder if anyone near the museum that houses one or so of these mandolin might have visited to confirm the existence of the creatures.
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    I really don't know what is better, the giant squid carved into the headstock or that it's brothers are in the Black Swamp Museum. I think this is fodder for a low budget horror movie..."Ohio Mandolin Massacre".
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    I'm just thankful to see this thread hasn't been abandoned. It has been such a source of wonder and enjoyment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff L View Post
    Been reading and absorbing everything I can on MC for several months and can't resist finally posting on this one. I'm a total noob to music in general, but I actually like the look of that mandolin. I don't $1500-like it, but I do like it quite a bit. But I also find that I tend to like the odd/unique. I'm one of those folks who tends toward A-style/non-sunburst look/wood grain on the front of an instrument.

    Anyway, for you folks who didn't like the squid, don't look at this, but for those that do, here's one that I randomly came across last week while searching for US luthiers http://www.outlierworkshop.com/f-model/. Hopefully I don't make anyone's invertebrate dreams/nightmares worse. But these creatures don't seem to bother me as much as some I guess.

    As someone who has done a fair bit of selling and buying on eBay (non-musical items) I wonder if this person would have been responsive to a helpful rewrite of the listing. Perhaps if couched in terms of "I'm not in the market for this particular instrument, but would like to help you get it sold because it's a cool looking instrument. Here's some text that would help answer questions for those in the market..." Basically, kill 'em with kindness. Perhaps encouragement would have helped since the person probably got overwhelmed with emails from others who knew more then they did. While the folks on here were probably nice in their contacting the seller, I bet the seller got some really not-so-nice people emailing as well.

    Hopefully the person who bought it will post a sound clip/youtube video so we can all hear it. It would be awesome if it turned out to be a total gem!
    As noted in this thread, Ben Pearce made a ""squidolin", lol! Ben is featured in the current issue (March, 2017) of Bluegrass Unlimited's Annual Instrument Issue. Here is the threads original squid headstock and Ben's more refined squid headstock.
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    Default Re: Ebay: Copy of a Lloyd Lane!

    I have to say, I like the old one better. But I always liked that one, whereas many folks didn't. I guess I'm weird.

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    Thanks for sharing that though! That's really cool to see the evolution and to hear that his work is getting exposure.

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    Feeling nostalgic for sea life themed mandolins, I found this Mermaid headstock on a Sorensen (Reverb):

    Still sorry I let the squidolin slip away, lol!
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    Here's one I did, not exactly sea life but water life just the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vernon Hughes View Post
    Here's one I did, not exactly sea life but water life just the same.
    Very nice Vernon!
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    The squid (thread) must not die! I found this Franzke headstock shot while looking for something else this morning. I felt it belonged in this hall of greats. I realize this may not be a squid but close enough, lol! I still wonder what became of the original Squid mandolin from Ohio.
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    Looks like an octopus to me.

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    I concur. It even has the requisite eight tentacles.

    But I am grateful for the revival of this fascinating thread. Quite an amusing one it is! I just spent the better part of an hour re-reading it; I'd quite forgotten about it. Perfect hangover medicine. And it is indeed a shame we never heard the outcome of it, whatever happened to the cause of it all and who bought it, and whether it sounded all right or just a little fishy.

    I do wish someone had taken the time to post the pictures from the ad for posterior. I guess this slipped under Jim Garber's sonar. Glad I thought to post a picture of the headstock that started all this ruckus - at post #86!

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    I do wish someone had taken the time to post the pictures from the ad for posterior.

    Have the feeling that’s the fate of a lot of stuff I write.

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    We have the headstock; that's the most important part. But yeah, several people mentioned the low quality and lacking utility of the photos. Wish I could see what they meant. Oh well!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard500 View Post
    I do wish someone had taken the time to post the pictures from the ad for posterior.

    Have the feeling that’s the fate of a lot of stuff I write.
    I have since learned to upload photos from any Ebay ad I'm posting about for this reason. I too regret having not posted the photos from the ad. Here is the headstock with background removed. I can't remember what the body looked like other than a vague memory of a non-trad oval sound hole.
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    Old thread revival time: Not a squid but a Koi fish this time. On a scale of 1 to 10, what do you think?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim simpson View Post
    Old thread revival time: Not a squid but a Koi fish this time. On a scale of 1 to 10, what do you think?
    "Melville" missed an opportunity to inlay a white whale (the natural enemy of the giant squid).
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    Lloyd Loar didn't build mandolins, he was a designer.


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