Thats a suprise Regal Reverse Scroll

[Jim Garber]

This does give me the opportunity to ask something I've been wondering - Are there any other well-known mandolin makers that have produced large quantities of "reverse-scroll" instruments on a regular basis? Or is Regal unique in this respect?

There was this one attributed to the Larson brothers: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...Reverse-Scroll

However I seem to recall a modern Japanese maker who made a F-style mandolin with a stroll that turned the opposite way. I thought it might have been Acoustic World / Iwamoto but I can’t seem to find any images of one.

[HoGo]

You mean this?
Taku Sakashta: http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Muse...ustang/um.html

[Jim Garber]

You mean this?
Taku Sakashta: http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Muse...ustang/um.html

Yes! That’s the one, Unicorn & Mustang. Thanks!
I like that he reversed the headstock, too.

[Jim Garber]

I see this thread was started about a luthier who made another reverse scroll mandolin: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...verse-mandolin

Denny Stevens was a unique and very talented Colorado luthier who mostly made guitars but during his career but I've heard of the reverse scroll mandolin and this is the only image I've found of it. This image was on his business card.

[journeybear]

Thanks, guys! Good old MC Hive Mind - a resource like no other.

I can't quite see from the photo of the Unicorn & Mustang, whether there's a gap in the body scroll to permit threading a string or leather lace through in order to use it for a strap. That is, after all, the only utilitarian value of a scroll.

I'm trying to adjust my first impression of reverse scrolls. They're just so unlike what I'm used to seeing, it's hard to unlearn that.

[Jim Garber]

I would love to see a lefty version. Like this:

[JEStanek]

I can get Vegemite locally as well at Giant and Wegman's here in Philaburbia. My wife uses it in mince pies. We listen to Sweeney Todd when we make them.

Jamie

[journeybear]

I would love to see a lefty version. Like this:

So, is this a reverse reverse? Does that make it a forward again? Or is it the real Jimi Hendrix mandolin? As opposed to ...



(He would have turned 80 yesterday. Still on my mind.)