Batwing Flies Again!
My very first mandolin was a Harmony Batwing purchased used around 1980 from the String Shoppe, Ontario St. Buffalo NY, the late Ed Taubleib Prop. Honestly never really took to it as I was Playing Bluegrass guitar mostly, and some banjo. About 15 years later I started playing mandolin some and I got hooked. The Batwing by that point was pretty bad on the action and bolt on neck soon gave out. I moved on to more playable instruments and the 'Wing became a wall hanger. I looked at it the other day and I wondered if.... Well some hard wood shims, a dowel, some longer wood screws and some industrial two-part epoxy and its now playable again! Not the greatest sound (I guess none of the Harmony instruments were) but cool no doubt. Accompanied by the ever popular Banjo Bear.
Ratliff R5 2007, Capek A5 2003, Washburn M5S-SB Jethro Burns 1982, Mid-Mo M-2, Epiphone MM 30 Bk mandolins, Harmony Batwing 1970's, George Bauer bowlback early 1900's Philadelphia.
"Don't cloud the issue with facts!" Groucho Marx
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