Hi!
I just joined the forum after spending some months repairing this handmade F5 style mandolin I bought online some months ago. It had a bunch of issues and turned into quite a big project.
I have setup, modified, repaired and built guitars for years, but resetting a neck and rebuilding the neck joint extension on a mandolin like this was another level of complexity. Without this forum and the Big Red Books of American Lutherie I would not have had been able to resurrect it, so I want to thank you all for this resource that the forum is.
I am writing here hoping that someone might know who the builder of this mandolin is. It is a bit rough around the edges, but it really does sound very good and seems to be very well built with good wood selection and care for a lot of details - but for the life of me I cannot make out what name is on the headstock...I am sure it is some decades old at least.
Does someone here recognize the name on the headstock?
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