Brier Road Mandolins (made in Adams, MA)

[Larry S Sherman]

Hi Folks,

If you've been to the luthier area of Fresh Grass you may have seen Nick's work. He is a talented young luthier in my area, specializing in the kind of guitars you see in the back of Fretboard Journal...elegant designs, beautiful tone woods, innovative features, etc.

His instruments go under the brand "Brier Road Guitars". He can be found on Facebook here.

He's built a few mandolins in the past, but his most recent really caught my interest, so I thought I would share here. Nick was inspired by a design he saw in Portsmouth, NH:

[Larry S Sherman]

The design idea got him started thinking of ways to implement this on an instrument, and he decided to try it on a flat backed mandolin.

Here are some early in-progress photos:



I like the art deco feel of the design.

[Larry S Sherman]

Here are some more in-progress pics:

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And finally some finished pictures:

[Larry S Sherman]

I'm hoping to get a chance to play it before it sells, if it hasn't already.

FYI: I have NFI.

Happy New Year!

Larry

[Larry S Sherman]

Weird...double-post

[Steve Sorensen]

Nice design work. Very tasteful and clean. Hope is sounds great too!

Steve

With such a cohesive design aesthetic, I (personally) would love to see a more appropriately styled tailpiece to finish it off -- even a Allen/Montleone TP would fit the style a little better!

[Pete Braccio]

Beautiful!

[Jim Garber]

Larry: is that a flattop? Very sleak and beautiful workmanship. I like that design and you could use the back for writing some music as well.