That is beyond cool.Originally Posted by Jim Garber
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That is beyond cool.
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Oval or F-hole, your choice. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pango-Music...sAAOSww85abo5Q
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Mojo overflow. Adding a snake rattle to this is unnecessary, I guess. It's a bit like making a banjo out of Mr. Monroe's skull.
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Apart from the minor defects on the body it does come from "the top professional factory in building the Mandolin in China"
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If someone did that, it'd probably sell for even more than his toaster!
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"mandolin for sale, some assembly required" BUT shipping is free!
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Now we can have a new discussion, f-hole vs. oval-hole vs. no hole!
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Who was it that wanted a quiet mandolin to play while traveling and staying in motel rooms?
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How about just dropping a couple of pickups in it, and calling it a hollow-body electric?
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Do we know it is hollow?
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Apparently this one was posted on Reverb 5 months ago - shocking that no one has snapped it up yet....
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With the amount of ART on that it will take just the right buyer.
Was going to add a remark, but curbed my tongue.
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My goodness, somebody tell that person to back away from the magic markers. On my worst days I used paint.
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One man's trash is another man's...trash? Unless that's an Art Garfunkel drawing, I don't think it is worth the mandolin it's printed on.
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Old Kraftsman, but Young Doodler.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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Looks like what you scribble during a boring meeting.
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
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A couple of beauties on Craigslist. Actually the bandurria doesn;t look too bad but the guitarra, yikes!:
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They forgot to "wipe their squeeze" after the glue job! Might have more glue than Bill's!
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Maybe he just drools a lot while playing?
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Ok, it's Spiderman's instrument.
Now please take that picture of Spiderman casting at thread by spitting over the street out of my head
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
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Whatthehell are all the gewgaws stuck to the front of the big one?
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Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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Some look like Keebler elf cookies.
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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Somewhere a luthier should have said "I hear what you're asking but.. no
pumpkin-top-1915-pumpkin-top
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Hey, it could be a decent-sounding mandolin and is priced sort of reasonably, maybe?
Jim
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Playing lately:
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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Maybe. That top looks clean. Shame if the rest of it was that fine when the new neck went on. An odd duck now.
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