What the Heck?
What the Heck?
NoNickel
Duff F5 #196/15
Plays the "Irv Pearman" Signature Set
All misspellings intentional. Even thsi one.
OK, that's different.
Buy it here, <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Lofquist-Style-F-Mandolin-Reverse-Scroll-USA_W0QQitemZ280156911913QQihZ018QQcategor
yZ10179QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">REverse Scroll on ebay</a>
No financial interest.
NoNickel
Duff F5 #196/15
Plays the "Irv Pearman" Signature Set
All misspellings intentional. Even thsi one.
That scroll is backin' talkwards as Frank Wakefield would say.
There are three kinds of people: those of us that are good at math and those that are not.
Maybe that's the FW Signature model?
NoNickel
Duff F5 #196/15
Plays the "Irv Pearman" Signature Set
All misspellings intentional. Even thsi one.
I think I am going to have nightmares. I don't really like scrolls to begin with. This one is just plain wrong.
do good things
Magnificent, creative, inspired, and clever beyond genius! #Now how do you hang the strap from it?
Dedicated Ovation player
Avid Bose user
Hendrix once owned it.
A couple of mandolins
A couple guitars
An Upright Bass
Some banjos
Wax Paper over a comb
A Loar era Didjeridoo
"I Never Wanted To Be A Barber. I Always Wanted To Be A Lumberjack !"
ouch my neck hurts
Steve Davis
I should really be practicing instead of sitting in front of the computer.
It has been done before. 1999 Unicorn and Mustang mandolin by Taku Sakashta from Frank Ford's site.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Something went horribly wrong on the operating table!
Molon Labe
Jim beat me to it. That puppy has been here before.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I was thinking Australian, drains swirl the other way around too.
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is like dancing,
about architecture
It's a transcrollual, after curl-change surgery.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
at least nobody has called it a lefty scroll.......yet
Jason
Lefty JBovier F5 Tradition, Lefty Mid-Mo M1
That must be a lefty scroll....
Seriously, it's bad, but not despicable. If we can get rid of the point on the top, and just make it a scroll that cruves right from the body, that would look a little better.
Hamlett Two-Point
Eastman MD805
Schertler DYN-M + Yellow
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Hendrix played standard guitars...Originally Posted by (Gutbucket @ Sep. 26 2007, 03:58)
Yuk - wonder if it plays as off balance as it looks
"Your wife is UUGgLLYY!! - Yeah but she sure can cook."
I think that Lofquist was done quite well and scroll flows nicely.
Bass Ackwards!
Eastman 605, Strad-o-lin, and Kentucky 300e mandolins.
Mandolinist, Stringtopia, the Long Island Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra
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When you look at it from the back you can see how nicely the scroll curves from the bass side down to the treble point. #It's really a very symmetrical two-point with a comma! #Nicely done, but who knows what it sounds like- the luthier is a bass builder.
It's kinda cool. I don't care for the burst on it but the scroll is whimsical to say the least. Then again, I'm open to alternative designs. Is it worth $2K+, depends on how it sounds, feels, and plays. I like the off kilterness of the peghead shape as well. I like this one better than the one from Frank Ford's site.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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Speaking for singing fat ladies everywhere, I'm not sure what the heck this has to do with us!
Karen Escovitz
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Otter OM #1
Brian Dean OM #32
Old Wave Mandola #372
Phoenix Neoclassical #256
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If you're gonna walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!
I woke up feeling that way once.....ONCE!
It is interesting in it's own way, rather like a left handed metric crescent wrench
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Interesting that both the ebay mando (Lofquist) and the Unicorn & Mustang pictured were made in 1999. I wonder who was first. I think Lofquist's take on the headstock is less successful than the nicely executed reverse scroll on the body.
When 'good enough' is more than adequate.
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