Message in a bulb

**oldwave maker** · Mar-19-2015, 8:54am

Goes east next week, NM walnut, AZ ironwood, CO engelmann, pinyon coffee, lively bugger.......

**Mark Wilson** · Mar-19-2015, 9:07am

Message in a bulb

Thats clever and cool

Beautiful mandolin.

**sgrexa** · Mar-19-2015, 9:07am

That is the widest grain Engelmann I have ever seen! Amazingly cool Bill, is that a one piece top?

Sean

**DougC** · Mar-19-2015, 10:04am

That's a beauty. And local wood. Very cool. What do you mean by lively? Sound sample please.

**Randi Gormley** · Mar-19-2015, 10:58am

Wow. What a beauty -- message notwithstanding.

**Skip Kelley** · Mar-19-2015, 11:14am

Nice looking mandolin! Bill, I always love your posts!

**sgarrity** · Mar-19-2015, 11:41am

That's gorgeous. I love the local wood choices.

**HoGo** · Mar-19-2015, 5:38pm

Originally Posted by sgrexa

Amazingly cool Bill, is that a one piece top?
Sean

Looks like two piece top by the shading of grainlines to me.
Brave choice of wide grained wood!

**oldwave maker** · Mar-20-2015, 9:46am

Two piece, neighbor Don Musser has billets from lots of colorado engelmann logs, I think he moved to Cotopaxi for several years to chase logging trucks the way some lawyers chase ambulances, its from the same part of the same tree as the octave on hold in the cafe ads. Got the idea for writing on the lightbulb by seeing a few shots here with clear bulbs on shiny surfaces.
doublestop scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=