Re: New Mandolin Builder Launching on Craigslist
Quirky build to say the least. Seahorse F holes, reversed points, neck joins body at the 11th fret, back made out of mystery wood ( kind of looks like olive wood), no mention of woods used in the description. But this is a guy who has owned "hundreds" of mandolins, including "Gibson, Kalamazoos, and Martins" and this one sounds "better than all of them". Obviously, modesty is not one of his problems. And all this from a guy who would meet another guy in a grocery store parking lot to buy an Epiphone MM-30. It probably sounds better than that one, though. But hey, if they sound that good, maybe Gibson will buy him out to get rid of the competition, just like they did Flatiron, and he could end up being Gibson's new acoustic engineer!
Don
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