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    The Lumanog Supersonic! ....

    https://www.elderly.com/catalog/prod...ge+Instruments

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    "I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling in this establishment!"
    It's 20 bucks and you have not snapped that rascal up, Jaycat, I'm astounded!
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    I'm surprised Elderly made such an elaborate ad just to sell a $20 instrument! I kinda like the back wood figure and the plaid gig bag!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Mando View Post
    I'm surprised Elderly made such an elaborate ad just to sell a $20 instrument!...
    Just what I thought when I read it. Must have cost more than $20 in staff time.

    I've noticed more "as is" cheapos being listed by Elderly in the past couple years, and I wonder how, and why, they're acquiring instruments that aren't worth fixing, and selling them at prices that won't yield them any profit. Most of the local dealers I know wouldn't take a mandolin like that in trade, saying, "it's not worth fixing." Some of these dealers will sell good instruments in need of significant repairs "as is," if they don't have the time to do the work but hope that a purchaser can do the restoration. Bernunzio, e.g., has a "flea market" section on his website, where you can pick up an original 1940's National finger-pick for the modest sum of $40, and similar bargains...

    This one, I don't know. It's sorta retro "shabby chic," but beyond that...?
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    Didn't the Shmergel Devastator people sue Lumanog for copyright infringement?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrmando View Post
    Didn't the Shmergel Devastator people sue Lumanog for copyright infringement?
    I think you're right. This is one of those "Lawsuit era" Lumanog Supersonics
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    Quote Originally Posted by allenhopkins View Post
    Just what I thought when I read it. Must have cost more than $20 in staff time.
    Got a post about it on the most read mandolin site in the world. I'm sure it will bring clicks their way and might lead to a sale of a more valuable instrument.

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    Quote Originally Posted by colorado_al View Post
    I think you're right. This is one of those "Lawsuit era" Lumanog Supersonics
    Well, in THAT case it ought to be worth at least $25 ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrmando View Post
    Well, in THAT case it ought to be worth at least $25 ...
    I'm surprised to see any left. I thought the outcome of the lawsuit was that all remaining Lumanog Supersonic were to be destroyed by subjecting them to one chord on the Shmergel Devastator. I'd snap it up and hide it away in an attic while you still can!

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    Ha ha, you guys. This little bow-wow bears not the slightest resemblance to a Shmergel Devastator. I'd post a picture of my Shmergel, if [a] I had one, and [b] the stellar luminescence of the Shmergel's 400 coats of hand-rubbed finish didn't make it un-photograph-able.

    Any association between the Lumanog Supersonic and the Shmergel Devastator is purely the turbid product of drug-addled minds. Not that I'm accusing anyone, of course...
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    That one hurts my brain.
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    I don't know what ya'll are griping about. I think it would be wonderfull fixer upper. New top, new neck, maybe a new back and sides. Upgrade to Waverleys and a Cumberland Acoustic's bridge and you might have something.
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    i had a lumanog 14 string bandiera years ago. it wasn't badly built, but i got fifty bucks for mine, with no bridge strings or set up but recent frett dressing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allenhopkins View Post
    Ha ha, you guys. This little bow-wow bears not the slightest resemblance to a Shmergel Devastator. I'd post a picture of my Shmergel, if [a] I had one, and [b] the stellar luminescence of the Shmergel's 400 coats of hand-rubbed finish didn't make it un-photograph-able.

    Any association between the Lumanog Supersonic and the Shmergel Devastator is purely the turbid product of drug-addled minds. Not that I'm accusing anyone, of course...

    Such loquacious verbosity boggles the minds of mere mandolin aficionados sun had as yours truly. So, one can only imagine the truly Herculean descriptive efforts put forth by a literati such as the esteemed member above. Mr. Hopkins you have exceeded even your previous alliteration as regards the esteemed Schmergel Devastator, but, I fear you offer short shrift to the numerical superiority of the hand rubbed finish depth. I have it on good authority that the afore mentioned Devastator was five hundred-thirty-seven individually applied coats caringly with a Windsor-Newton series 7 red sable brush, hand cupped and trimmed each bristle being painstakingly trimmed for each and every coat. The only abrasives used were from the ash of the finest Macanudo cigar and first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil from a small grove in Luca.
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    I visit the Elderly site daily, and appreciate the oddballs. Keeps me visiting. Sometimes I buy them. Sometimes I don't regret it. I still have a Marxolin hammer/zither thing I bought in the 1990s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jdchapman View Post
    ...I still have a Marxolin hammer/zither thing I bought in the 1990s.
    Do you play it?

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    Wow.

    I'm getting mine off the mantle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allenhopkins View Post
    Just what I thought when I read it. Must have cost more than $20 in staff time.

    I wonder how, and why, they're acquiring instruments that aren't worth fixing, and selling them at prices that won't yield them any profit. Most of the local dealers I know wouldn't take a mandolin like that in trade, saying, "it's not worth fixing."
    In a past life as a tv tech it wasn't uncommon for customers to leave a set deemed not worth repairing. What were they going to do with a broken tv set?

    Since this one states the neck is twisted, and it looks like some damage at the neck join area, I'd guess that might have happened here.
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