What am I looking at here? A refinish? The adjustable bridge makes me suspicious.
Both tailpiece and pickguard are Pat. Apld. For, and the serial no. is 492.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DkjqFsk8mvLT2MV48
What am I looking at here? A refinish? The adjustable bridge makes me suspicious.
Both tailpiece and pickguard are Pat. Apld. For, and the serial no. is 492.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DkjqFsk8mvLT2MV48
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Never seen one of those in a burst? Looks rather nice but that should be what pre-1920 right and the burst looks a bit older to me-meaning late than 20's?
I remember seeing this thread once when I was looking for any and all info on L&Hs.
The one in the link is, to my eye, a much classier looking sunburst. The top of this one is a bit, shall we say, garish, which was not the Lyon & Healy aesthetic. I would bet on a later "improvement."
Definitely refinished.
The bridge appears to be a Gibson product.
Does this one have a label or numbers stamped inside ? I do not recall seeing a sunburst finish option in the Lyon & Healy or Tonk Bros catalogs but of course, they did such finishes on other instruments so it could have been special ordered and as noted in the other linked thread, Dawg has a brown finished mandola. But most sunburst finishes from that era were more of a dark brown pattern and not that red like this one.
Mark
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And it is for sale in the classifieds...
https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/178954#178954
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A bunch of stuff with four strings
I gave up on trying to flip this. It has the beginnings of a headstock crack, and the crack gets worse if you put tension on the strings.
So I took it back to Guitar Center, got a refund and told them it needed repair. Did they listen? No.
If you see a used Style A listed online at Guitar Center for $1499, it's this one. You've been notified.
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It might be time to start treating that MAS.
Well, the previous acquisition from GC — a Kent Everett mandola — turned out spectacularly well. This one, not so much.
Come to think of it, that's the second time a vintage mandolin from GC has arrived with a neck crack.
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There's something really awkward about a sunburst on a L&H syle A; it goes against the aesthetic, detracting from the graceful lines of the instrument.
I feel the same way about sunbursts on Martin guitars, for a slightly different reason, which I find it difficult to articulate. They're just not supposed to try to look like Gibsons. Just wrong.
Merely one man's opinion, and you know what opinions are like.
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