Groupings

[brunello97]

I love your White Face, FD. I've always admired them.

What's the odd looking pumpkin / jack-o-lantern in the center?

Mick

[fatt-dad]

I love your White Face, FD. I've always admired them.

What's the odd looking pumpkin / jack-o-lantern in the center?

Mick

Mick,

That's my Cohen. It's unstained and has redwood top and walnut sides and back. I love it! I've had my A3 (whiteface) for 30 years and play it all the time! Now that I'm focused on duet work (old-time, Celtic and classical), I'm using my A3 more and more. I'm doing duets with a guitar player and for that I really don't need all the horsepower an f-hole (c-hole) mandolin offers. That Cohen is a monster though!

f-d

[Mudfish]

I am a lucky gal.

[jim simpson]

current acoustics: 20's Supertone, Martin 00-18, Martin D-18, Guild 12 string - it looks like I collect by size.

[fatt-dad]

Another appearance of my white face '20 A3 next to my '30 L1.



f-d

[jim simpson]

nice couple!

[Picea]

Mandos on a quilt at Nashville Mandolin Camp Fall 2015

[jim simpson]

current mandolin brood (not counting nearly finished F-5 build)

[Nick Gellie]

Well here is my family grouping of mandolins I have made or in the last phases of construction or finishing.



The one on the left is my finished F5 completed earlier this year. Red Spruce top and I think a big leaf maple back.

In the middle is the A-5 which just needs a fingerboard to be glued on before stringing up in the white. Same combination of woods as the F5.

On the right is a F4 mandolin which has a Sitka Spruce top and Curly Leaf Maple back. Sitka Spruce gets a bad wrap as a soundboard. This mandolin is as good as the Mike Black oval hole mandolins I have had. It is loud warm responsive with a great bell like tone. The E string is loud and resonant with a nice quality to it.

[Paul Statman]

Eastman MDA515,
Collings MF5V (this individual is actually the model from the gallery photos of the MF5V page on Collings' website, so sexier, studio-lit pictures of it can be seen there).
Brentrup PML
Snakehead -my first mandolin.

[grassrootphilosopher]

Eastman MDA515,
Collings MF5V (this individual is actually the model from the gallery photos of the MF5V page on Collings' website, so sexier, studio-lit pictures of it can be seen there).
Brentrup PML
Snakehead -my first mandolin.

A snakehead as a first mandolin. That´s a good one. That and the PML and you´re set.

Just out of interest: In which order did you buy the instruments.

What´s more: Please describe the sound of the PML as opposed to the Collings.

I played a PML at TAMCO in Brighton. It was not very well set up. But it was a dandy in sound. I never came to like the appearance of a Collings mandolin, nor the sound (too stringy, dark and "modern").

It´s nice to see this thread survive.

[Paul Statman]

A snakehead as a first mandolin. That´s a good one. That and the PML and you´re set.

Yes, Olaf, you're likely right, there. 29 years between snake and PML. The 'dola was a little after that, and the Collings last. *Actually, I just realized that I left out my latest mando. I'll have to re-shoot and repost..

Just out of interest: In which order did you buy the instruments.

I think I covered that..

What´s more: Please describe the sound of the PML as opposed to the Collings.

PML is dry, woody, and a bluegrass machine.
MF5V is (I find) more responsive, versatile and sweet-voiced, with a note separation and clarity...forgive me, I am struggling here.

To make a short story unbearable; All of my bluegrass peeps prefer the PML.
I remember Tom Rozum and Patrick Sawber being rather taken with it at only 3 months old.

I played a PML at TAMCO in Brighton. It was not very well set up. But it was a dandy in sound. I never came to like the appearance of a Collings mandolin, nor the sound (too stringy, dark and "modern").

..and not so much here.

It´s nice to see this thread survive.

I couldn't agree more, sir.

[JeffD]

It is time for me to post an updated picture of my stable.

I need some inspiration though. Or some artistic intervention.

I understand that we are looking at the instruments, and not especially at how they are arranged. But really, I wanna do something cool. Something more fun than a couch arrangement, or a store front sales like display. I saw a picture once of a guy sitting playing a banjo, surrounded by all kinds of banjos, against the wall, leaning on the side of his chair, all over the place, as if he was in the middle of playing them each one at a time, for the camera. I really liked that.

I will work this out and post something.

[Paul Statman]

CORRECTION: Eastman mandola is model MDA615

I mistyped it as MDA515 in the OP

[Wastafair]

Sept 2017 Bluegrass weekend near Ambazac, Limousin, France.

From letf to right:
- Lebeda master model F5
- JBovier A5 special
- Rattlesnake #75
- Kimble F5
- Wayne Henderson F5

[Paul Statman]

I played a PML at TAMCO in Brighton. It was not very well set up. But it was a dandy in sound. I never came to like the appearance of a Collings mandolin, nor the sound (too stringy, dark and "modern").

We likely favor different cars, too. It's a good thing there are so many choices out there these days!

[Jim Garber]

Care for a game of bowlback bingo?

[Jim Garber]

and a few more below the table

[Charles E.]

Hey Jim, is the mandolin, second from the right in the second photo, your Embergher? I am noticing the fluted ribs.

[Jim Garber]

Hey Jim, is the mandolin, second from the right in the second photo, your Embergher? I am noticing the fluted ribs.

No, those two fluted ones are Martin style 6 and Interdonati.

[Jim Garber]

I really should set them all up on a sandy beach. They sort of resemble horseshoe crabs or those little creatures in the Gibson cartoon (below). Well, at least I am entertained.

[Jim Garber]

For more of my entertainment... I have a feeling that all the bowlback enthusiasts have left the building. I don't care. I said goodby to a few of mine today. Sniff! A goodbye group portrait. They are going to a very good home.

[mtucker]

Guess this can go here.

[Jim Garber]

Guess this can go here.

Yikes! Every one a Gilchrist-ite? Is that your collection?

[mtucker]

Yikes! Every one a Gilchrist-ite? Is that your collection?

hehehe, yes those are mine, but only in my dreams Jim!

They were the latest batch that went to Carter's in November '17. All pre-sold. Mine is the mocha caramel latte (F5Jr) to the far right! X-braced fret dotless monster.