Here's a fun one. Even if old pumpkin-top A's were generally worth $2K, which they're not, this one wouldn't even come close. Do you know why?
https://neworleans.craigslist.org/msg/5587861269.html
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Here's a fun one. Even if old pumpkin-top A's were generally worth $2K, which they're not, this one wouldn't even come close. Do you know why?
https://neworleans.craigslist.org/msg/5587861269.html
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Screen print logo on the headstock.
Charley
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Granted this is most likely done by an owner but there is some possibility that this mandolin was sent to Gibson in the 1950s or 1960s for repair and the factory installed that logo. I have seen a friend's 1930's L-1 with similar factory-ordered insanity including refinished in 1960s cherry sunburst. Still, I agree the price is absurd. BTW the bridge is also non-original... you all probably know that already.
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Given that it has a truss rod when it shouldn't, and a third-fret marker when it shouldn't, as well as a post-1948 logo on a pre-1918 mandolin, I'm going to go ahead and say it was completely re-necked at the factory in the '50s.
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That would make a lot of sense. I didn't notice the third fret marker.
Jim
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Have we seen this one before?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Gibson-1...3D191873827008
I like the overspray visible on the head stock from the stencil for the logo. It wasn't a very good stencil, either. Also the refinish. For $1850.
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I know it is only $10,000 in Canadian dollars but this is ridiculous. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-string-instru...ationFlag=true
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For posterity:Originally Posted by JH Murray
This mandoline has been made by myself with over 240 hours .This instrument has a unique quality sound where there one of a kind . The darker one is made with butter nut and the back with maple /maple neck and cherry wood . The lighter one is made with cedar fornt and back and mapleand cherry wood neck .This is why i am asking this price . To purchase this type of mandoline u need to place a order in advance with a deposit required.Please .
That maker must have copied this F4 "clone". More reasonably priced and a real beauty.
Last edited by Jim Garber; Jul-04-2016 at 4:39pm.
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
But hey!, it's vintage, lol!
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Not a mandolin but a tenor guitar......
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1934-Martin-...8AAMXQ1d1TIL3q
Charley
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
I must admit that it is a beauty. Nice shaded top. I would think those decals would come off pretty easily. I guess the dealer puts a super-premium price on it because of the shaded top? Still...
Jim
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
The decals might soak off but not the gold paint outlining them.
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
You could always change your "stage name" to fit the initials........
Let's see, "DT", ok, how 'bout Driftin' Tommy, Donnie Taylor, Double Trouble, Doyle Trout, Dylan Thomas, Delirium Tremens, "Dig" Tenor, Delaware Tony, Donald Trumpet (thought I was going to say something else, didn't ya?).......???
Could turn into a whole 'nuther thread....
Last edited by Jeff Mando; Nov-16-2016 at 9:49am.
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Delirium tremens (DTs) ?
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
I came up with that one before my "coffee" this morning...........
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Actually, I looked more carefully and those letters don't even look like decals. They are probably more like vinyl stick on letters. Old English typeface, too. Tackyness. Delirium Tenors, anyone?
Jim
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Deliberate Tackiness!
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Ya know, the look is starting to grow on me. It would be a great conversation piece at a jam, a great stage piece. But not for the asking price.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
I like this $1500 Stradolin ...
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/msg/5868649474.html
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Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
Looks like a great example, just priced 4-5 times what it is worth! Nice ad, but it takes a lot of "salesmanship" to get over the price....
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
An real bargain at considerably less than half the price: Vintage Used Mandolin.
Jim
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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
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"Item shows overall wear..."
Yeah...
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
....... but it is 40% off.
Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
$1500.00? Heck it was only $30.00 new!
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
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