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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric F. View Post
    That blueberry is more of a dingleberry, amirite?
    Now that's funny right there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Hanson View Post
    I've got a Gibson F9 with an awful looking scroll, the mandolin itself sounds fabulous.

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    It's worse than that, very small centre on the body scroll and the headstock scroll is mishapen, but it's a great sounding instrument so I can live with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sue Rieter View Post
    Did you see the other one, same maker, with the devil on it? Perfect for those who have gone down to the crossroads...

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blueberry-N...4AAOSwLndf29L0

    Wow I'd never play a mando with a Devil/Demon looking face protruding and a Cross inlay beneath it-too me that's just very evil putting the two together and for the demon to be above the Cross!! No thanks! Just not my thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Smith View Post
    Wow I'd never play a mando with a Devil/Demon looking face protruding and a Cross inlay beneath it-too me that's just very evil putting the two together and for the demon to be above the Cross!! No thanks! Just not my thing.
    I agree. I wouldn't want it in my house. I can now say that I have seen a mandolin that I would turn down if someone offered to give it to me. Even if it were refinished, I would feel like that was always lurking there.

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    Finally someone got it right.
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    Check this out, worst headstock too....

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/178239#178239

    And, if you have a "scroll", why would you need a strap button?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    Hey folks: what fun is this thread if we can't document these beauties. At least put a few photos from the listing before they disappear. We need to archive these for our great grandchildren.

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    The scroll is the least of the visual problems with this one. The cognitive dissonance here is that all the threatening violent dark imagery is in contrast to how a mandolin sounds. Decorating your electric guitar like this, or your kick drum, but a mandolin?
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    funny....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles E. View Post
    That has a Worst lot of things not just scroll.

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    "It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
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    "Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
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    This one came up on a Sweetwater ad today. It is a Washburn. While far from the ugliest something is still just not right about it.

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    If your not going to bind them why do it?
    But the hard sunburst spreads the unpleasantness around.

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    And it sold just like that.
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