I picked up this mandolin on eBay last year for about $130, I think. The photos were terrible, and so was the description. There's no name, no label. A number of companies sold mandolins that looked like this. Any ideas? Thirties, I think, judging from the black tuner knobs.
Anyway, there were problems. There were two loose trusses that needed to be reglued. There was no bridge. The nut was made of wood. There was a hump in the fretboard over the body. I tried to file that out, but was left without enough fret. So I started pulling the frets and off came huge chunks of the fretboard! It was like lauan mahogany, terrible stuff.
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