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    I am not sure but I believe that model is actually an F-ed Up 4....

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    It an F-4 the italics mandolin.
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    Looks like Guy Clark's description of the inspiration for his song "Picasso's Mandolin."

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    So if it turns out to be pre-1894, would that mean Gibson copied it?
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    It is funny but I was just looking in my pile of mandolins and came across this "lovely" lump scroll which certainly competes with the one discussed in this thread. I bought on eBay back in 2012 as a service to all you folks here so you would not have to spend your hard earned money on such an oddity. It is funny though: I just tapped on the top and it does have some tonal potential.

    For more of these kind of things, check out this wonderful long thread about all these oddball mandolins we come across.

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    Jim, you really took one for the team there!
    This reminds me of the resident evil games where the bad guy always mutates into some kind of monstrous abomination towards the end of the game

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    Default Re: Ugliest F-4 ever?

    Quote Originally Posted by sunburst View Post

    What makes this one an F-4? Has F-4 come to mean any mandolin with a carved top and back, oval hole, points and scrolls? Is F-4 just a convenient designation to indicate the general style of mandolin?
    It looks like the creation of someone who saw a Gibson F-4, but did not have access to it or a picture of one and did the whole design from memory.
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    It is very interesting to me that many of the best artists who try to portray a violin do a bad job of getting the proper proportions. I imagine if F-model mandolins were more popular they would have the same problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    It is very interesting to me that many of the best artists who try to portray a violin do a bad job of getting the proper proportions. I imagine if F-model mandolins were more popular they would have the same problem.

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    Same problem or even worse. I worked as a picture framer for many, many years. A woodblock print came through for framing, titled Angel With a Mandolin. The "mandolin" had a peghead bent at a 90° angle, à la lute, and even though it was a bowl back, the poor dear angel had it tucked under her chin and was going after it with a bow, which she held in her left hand.

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    Not like this, I hope, or was it?

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    Oh lordy, I wonder if that was her inspiration! I always figured the angel had it in the wrong hand in the block print because the printmaker forgot things print as a mirror image.

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