This might be a sin

[MikeEdgerton]

Check out this puppy. An opportunity to carve a new top for those so inclined...

Auction

[tnpathfinder]

That is kinda painful to look at. Ouch.

[Calvin]

Sure is. Makes me want to cry!

[JeffD]

Looks like it was played as an electric four string. Sure is a tragedy. The only saving grace is that it appears to have been enjoyed.

Nick Lyons [writer of great fly fishing stories] has as story about some kids finding their deceased grandfather's fine old bamboo fishing rods, and proceeding to have a sword fight with them. A calamity to break your heart.

[Calvin]

Like a Bass?

[mrmando]

Looks like an EM150 with the pickup ripped out. Repair the cracks and replace the pickup.

[sunburst]

Looks like an EM150 with the pickup ripped out. Repair the crack and replace the pickup.

Yep. Looks like a hole where a Charlie Christian pickup might (have) fit. If you can find one of those and put it in there...
(Someone looking for a CC pickup probably got that one from some pawn shop and...)

That one is almost in the category with the "hoss" in the other thread. That mando wasn't so great to start with. What's the big deal? Everything with a Gibson script isn't worthy of enshrinement. Especially that Gibson script.

[MikeEdgerton]

It's being sold by the same guy that is selling the Hoss. He also has an F2 for sale.

[mrmando]

'Twouldn't be the Charlie Christian; those weren't used on EM150s after 1940, and this, judging from the script and the Klusons, is a postwar instrument.

[f5loar]

yep, just needs a P90 pickup and few tuner knobs and tailpiece cover and a period pickguard and you got a pretty nice EM150 from the 50's worth a thousand bucks or so.

[JimRichter]

It's being sold by the same guy that is selling the Hoss. He also has an F2 for sale.

It's a teens F4 that he's selling, not an F2. And I agree on the EM150. That's an early to mid 50's, probably, and would have had the 4 pole P90 in it.

Frankly, I'd buy the mandolin and put another pick up in it (you see the old 4 pole P90's occasionally on ebay), rather than carve a new top.

Jim

[mandroid]

size of the hole looks kinda big for a P90, there are screws that hold the cover on , and I dont see enough room for or evidence of those screws. but the cavity could be filled in to suit a much smaller pickup double coil 4 pole humbucker perhaps.

This is still on the auction block? Nice Case.
looks like a Gibson badge may be on the case.
Had a P90 EM 150, I resold it without taking it apart.

[Jim Garber]

The mandolin P90s had pretty big dogears so maybe this is original.

Check out this one from Banana's site:


Jim

[MikeEdgerton]

I know where there's a shop in NJ that has two of those pickups, one in black, one in white.

[mrmando]

Well, I'm wondering ... Check the detail photos in the auction and you'll notice four screw holes: two above the pickup slot and two below it. Whereas the P-90 is held on by two screws, one through each dog-ear on either side of the pickup, and there don't appear to be any screws above or below. Also note that the strip of wood between the pickup slot and the F-hole on each side has been badly patched with what looks like a piece of wood cut from a yardstick.

So I'm thinking that not only was the P-90 removed, some OTHER pickup must have occupied the slot later, which necessitated the four new screw holes and the ugly patches. Putting a P-90 back on this instrument would be a good thing to do, but as Bob pointed out, you might have to glue in some wood in the corners of the slot in order to drill the new screw holes!

[banjobubba]

The Charlie Christian pickup was closer the fingerboard as I recall from the 30's vintage EM150 I once owned. Also one knob was on each side of the top. It sounded good with the electrics removed and looked better too! Dave

[MikeEdgerton]

Hey Dave, I haven't seen you since Saturday over on Rt 35. Welcome to the cafe.