Show your cboms!

**zoukie** · Feb-14-2008, 11:07am

Originally Posted by (bertramH @ Feb. 14 2008, 09:40)

Originally Posted by (zoukie @ Feb. 14 2008, 09:49)

That's a true beauty!!!!!!!!!! Mine is quite ugly looking but at least I'm happy about the sound....

you forgot to mention the celtic knots on the headstock

love them!!!!!

**uncledelphi** · Feb-14-2008, 12:45pm

I figured I'd come out of lurk mode to post some pictures of an octave mandolin that Bill Petersen is building for me. I should have it sometime in the next few months.

Some particulars:

Red spruce top with herringbone binding
Insane koa back and sides
Spalted maple soundhole rosette and peghead overlay
Custom dragon inlay on the fingerboard

**steve V. johnson** · Feb-14-2008, 3:32pm

Wow! I love spalted woods, and Bill P is sooo good at doing those wood rosettes! Nice!!

Thanks!

stv

**wayfaringstranger** · Feb-14-2008, 7:36pm

Here's mine.

**otterly2k** · Feb-15-2008, 3:09pm

Here's the close-up of the inlay on that Dean, as Stv requested...

**otterly2k** · Feb-15-2008, 3:12pm

Here's the one I call Otter OM #1 b/c I made it... in a workshop with Don Kawalek... who also likes spalted maple.

**otterly2k** · Feb-15-2008, 3:13pm

and the inlay I put on the headstock of that one (which you can't see in the previous photo)...
this is made from a recycled piano key, and etched and inked like scrimshaw

**steve V. johnson** · Feb-16-2008, 1:35am

Ahhhhhh.... Otters.....

stv

**mandohubris** · Feb-16-2008, 2:09am

Otterly 2k:

otterly amazing.

Nice job - how does it sound

**danb** · Feb-16-2008, 6:52am

Here are some shots of my fairly odd hybrid 5-string tenor guitar. It's sort of a resonator cittern I suppose.. I tune it GDAEA bass to treble, and play it somewhere like a tenor banjo for lead and somewhere like my sobell for backing

This is a Chanticleer, made by Patrick Arbuthnot of Norwich, England. He also made my 4-string reso-tenor, and is currently supplying Stefan Sobell with his tailpieces too. These are really a blast to play, I'm suprised they haven't caught on more with mandolin players.

**danb** · Feb-16-2008, 6:53am

5 pegs

**danb** · Feb-16-2008, 6:53am

You can fry hamburgers here when you pick hard enough

**danb** · Feb-16-2008, 6:54am

5-string tailpiece

**danb** · Feb-16-2008, 6:54am

Oops, gotta play with the wide angle some more..

**Michael Wolf** · Feb-16-2008, 10:34am

Ah, that's the five string from Patrick. I was already awaiting some pics of this. I saw this body design before, when Patrick sent me some pics of what he's fighting with at the moment. Maybe it was yours. Very nice and a bit funny too.
I see that it has a pick-grid under the "dove-holes". Good idea.
What scale length does it have? It seems to be two frets shorter than standard. Did you alter the form of the body somewhat, compared to the national model (except the horn of course)?

**Greg Stec** · Feb-17-2008, 2:00am

Here's what was loaned to me to play for the Baltimore MO (and doing it quitely nicely, IMHO)

**Greg Stec** · Feb-17-2008, 2:13am

And here's the 1912(?) H-1 I found on Craigslist (Phoenix, AZ).
It does have a surface crack on the face that runs parallel to the fretboard, but it does not go thru the face. The previous owner said it was given to him, and was in sad shape. He said he had it 'restored' by someone in AZ. I don't know what all he did, but fretboard plays great. IMHO, like it was new. Great intonation passed (WAY passed) the 12th fret. Coordinance is right on.
I'm going to see my favorite luthier about the crack.
Enjoy the pix.

**Greg Stec** · Feb-17-2008, 2:15am

The face

**danb** · Feb-17-2008, 4:31am

Originally Posted by (K5player @ Feb. 17 2008, 07:00)

Here's what was loaned to me to play for the Baltimore MO (and doing it quitely nicely, IMHO)

Now I bet that's a nice sounding cello

**danb** · Feb-17-2008, 5:15am

Originally Posted by (aldimandola @ Feb. 16 2008, 15:34)

What scale length does it have? It seems to be two frets shorter than standard. Did you alter the form of the body somewhat, compared to the national model (except the horn of course)?

Well the design was all Patrick's. He had this body before (it was green, then white primer in a couple photos). I'd borrowed it once before from him set up as an 8-string bouzouki. He added the grille and paint color this time around.

It's a bit wider than a national at the lower bout. This is a 21" scale which was nicked from my short-scale Sobell cittern.

The cutaway is very nice, I never realized before having one how much more accessible that makes the high frets. The "horn" is also handy for hooking on your leg when you play