I'm guessing a late 1922 Floyd Loar

[sumibuilt]

This one needs to be purchased by the Mandolin Cafe! This may be the holy grail of the eye candy page.. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...:X:RTQ:US:1123

[MikeEdgerton]

The description says "Really one of a kind". That is an understatement and at $85.00 BIN, a bargain and a half.

[Michael Gowell]

O I am sooooo tempted! One of the funniest objects I've seen in a long time. But poignant, too, you gotta respect the drive and the damnthetorpedos attitude of the original builder. Unless, of course, it's the product of an extended frenzy by an amphetamine-crazed luthier/artist.

[Oliver R]

Y'know, that is a sight that has left me speechless, words alone are just meaningless.........................

[Oliver R]

Although it IS a handmade wooden mandolin so it's at least a refreshingly accurate description.

[Bob Andress]

I just spat coffee all over my keyboard.

Please, someone with $85, buy this and report back on it's tone. The bridge covers the f-hole, that's gotta be good.

This is what happens when you leave your mandolin in the microwave too long.

[Tom C]

At least it would make an interesting flowerpot.

[journeybear]

I think I may have found my Christmas card photo. Placing it right in front of the busiest part of the wallpaper is a really nice touch.

Just remember - With an $85 BIN and Insurance Loss/Damage protection included up to $100, and the return policy: The seller will not accept returns for this item - you buy it, it's yours!

I like this part: "May contain age odors due to storage or handling and most come from local estate sales. Original owners may have had pets, smoked, cooked food or generally created a different environment that you may not agree with ... "

So it's not only ugly, it's stinky? There's a surefire sales strategy!

Looking at this stuff is better than reading the funnies!

[Oliver R]

This is perhaps what the Dawgs Loar looked like to Garcia during the Owsley Stanley period ...........

[MikeEdgerton]

The only problem with the auction description is their continued reference to it having 6 strings. Then again it might have 6 strings and 8 tuners.

[Oliver R]

The tuners are great aren't they.
Look out schaller...

[bobby bill]

Obviously you guys don't recognize an original Salvador Dali when you see one.

[Steve Ostrander]

I'm speechless...

[Capt. E]

6 strings?...I see eight. The tuners look scavenged from somewhere...and what about the way they are laid out? I think the builder made it from memory, not very accurate memory at that. LSD trip perhaps? Really would be a conversation starter.

[Oliver R]

Well...we keep saying that Dawg and suchlike could make any mandolin sound brilliant, hmmm. It would be a great experiment to observe.

[mandozilla]

Is that a compass in the headstock or a thing which tells time?

[Mike Buesseler]

Is that a compass in the headstock or a thing which tells time?

Maybe it's a Swiss Army Mandolin....you know, the one with the original "Crocodile Teeth Tuners." "---It even plays MUSIC!--"

[JeffD]

I figured it out!

The builder of that instrument used as a model Shannon Tichenor's impressionistic image Starry Mandolin!

Art interprets life, life imitates art.

[Bob Andress]

This thing is just as funny the 8th time you look at it as it was the first.

I think we have our reply for the next "Looking for a mando under $100" thread.

[journeybear]

Now, now, don't be knocking the headstock. Clearly that is the owner's pride and joy. That's why of the seven photos, three are of the headstock. And I do believe that's just a medallion of some sort, to make it even more beeyootiful than it already is.

If you look at the enlargement of the pegboard, you'll see two things - it's actually strung up with eight strings, and it's a Gibbs, not a Gibson - if there were any doubt.

I suppose it could be strung with five strings for playing acoustic Carnatic music ...

[Michael Gowell]

Unhh...must resist temptation to buy...unhhh...

[journeybear]

It's on my watch list. It's got four more weeks to go, so I'll be fighting temptation for a while ...

Oh man, I hope this doesn't turn into a bidding war. This could end up going for upwards of $90!

[Oliver R]

I have just driven home and the first thing I did was looked at it again to make sure it did actually exist.........
it's burning it's self into my brain, it's all becoming a bit Steven King'ish, I wont sleep well tonight I tell you.

[Tim Conroy]

I'm squeezing my eyes shut, but I can still see it.

Make it stop!

[f5loar]

This is a result of what can happen when you know just enough about everything but don't know anything about nothing. No doubt alcohol was involved in the building of this mandolin and I don't mean the store bought stuff either.