Re: Which mandolin should I buy?
Thanks everyone for the continued advice, I appreciate everything everyone is saying. I’m leaning that trying to have a mando custom made is a lot harder than my other instrument. All of my instruments have been custom made. It seems guitars and banjos are a lot easier to get what you want. I’ve commissioned both my d28 and d45. My banjo built by joe hardwick is the best banjo I’ve ever owned. But it’s easier because banjo builders all try for that pre war Gibson sound and guitar builders all try for a Gibson or martin type sound. But mandolins are voiced so different from other instruments. Some lend there tones to a jazz or classical sound. Others toward hard driving bluegrass. Everyone I’ve played so far has had excellent note separation. The northfields and Collings I played seemed to have the best consistency from mandolin to mandolin. Gibson’s seem to be hit or miss and of course I’ve just got to have an F Style ( I know I know I can get an A for half the price of an F blah blah blah lol) but I’m more open minded to other options now then before.
P.S. Thanks to y’all my wife is now sick of A-B testing mandolins with me, she keeps saying they all sound the same now just pick one. So I’m going it alone from here on out
Hardwick Bluetone banjo, old Washburn b16 with an rb250 tone ring
Custom Martin D28, and D45
Tyler White #12, Eastman MD 815cs, Austin AU657 beater mandolin
Several violins, eletric guitars, piano, Suzuki bluesmaster harmonica set, and my Dads old trombone from high school.
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