Washburn mandolins

[Lucindalin]

I'm a fan of your blues playin' Mark!!

[Lucindalin]

I bought a Washburn mandolin 7 years ago or so. Not too much time passed before I gave it away to a friend who was sort of interested in mandolin. I liked my cheap Epiphone mandolin much better but it did seem like an okay starter instrument - better than the awful Samick that I started on anyway! It was less than memorable - I actually forget that I owned it briefly until something like this thread jogs my memory.

[Mark Gunter]

I'm a fan of your blues playin' Mark!!

Thanks for the encouragement Lucindalin

[Dave Greenspoon]

I had a Jethro (early 2000's?) that might have suffered from either too thick a top, or too thick on the poly. Great woods with incredible flame and grain. It was the transitional period to a knew factory in a different country.

A much plainer version I encountered a few years earlier is memorable in the "One that Got Away" category. Stunned the store much as me. I still regret no grabbing it.

I can't speak to the more recent stuff, but given the Kentucky and Eastman options at competing price points, I'm in a different marketplace...if I were at all.