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Here's hoping you all have the best of holidays!
Maureen and Hans.
first string
Dec-20-2006, 10:58am
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WHY? I mean, I know photoshop is fun, but somethings go too far.
Actually that is pretty funny in an absolutely horrifying way.
Riccardo
Dec-20-2006, 11:04am
Ouch! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
Dave Gumbart
Dec-20-2006, 11:20am
Hans, being the innovator he is, is clearly taking the next step in the idea of distressing a mandolin. Guaranteed hot licks with each mando!
Dave
Jerry Byers
Dec-20-2006, 11:24am
Those mandos sure have some great flaming.
Jim MacDaniel
Dec-20-2006, 11:25am
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WHY? I mean, I know photoshop is fun, but somethings go too far.
Actually that is pretty funny in an absolutely horrifying way.
Not to worry -- they are probably just a bunch of Eastmans. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
mandocrucian
Dec-20-2006, 11:30am
Great pic! (and they are all F-holes too) http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Can you superimpose "Chucky" (dressed as a leprechaun) stoking the flames?
JeffD
Dec-20-2006, 12:39pm
Its the shock value. Very dramatic image.
Just like in any movie or television show where a an extremely rare and valuable piece of pottery is introduced, a vase or a huge bowl or whatever, it will be smashed before the end of the show - often before the end of the scene.
But wait, perhaps its the miracle of the burning mandolins - they were burning and yet not consumed. If Ole Bill starts talking from the flames I am going down on my knees in a hurry.
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Jim MacDaniel
Dec-20-2006, 12:42pm
But wait, perhaps its the miracle of the burning mandolins - they were burning and yet not consumed...
Perhaps they are Phoenix mandolins, rising from the ashes.
JEStanek
Dec-20-2006, 1:21pm
Hans posted this last year too. It was my wallpaper all through winter. Still gives me pause. To think those beautiful soundboards going up n flames cause they don't meet his specs. Wow!
Merry Christmas to Master Brentrup and Maureen! Best health and happiness to you next year.
Jamie
Gail Hester
Dec-20-2006, 1:25pm
Hans, how much for a cord of your firewood? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Thanks for the Christmas card, Merry Christmas to you and Maureen.
Bill Snyder
Dec-20-2006, 1:47pm
This apparently is not a Photoshop trick. Last year when I offered to take any tops that Hans wanted to burn off of his hands his reply was "Bill, I don't think you would have wanted any of them...they are of course, mistakes. Yes, costly, and a total waste of effort and great tonewood, but I got sick of looking at them in the shop. They made a great picture, fire, and fitting sacrifice of the wood."
pettyman
Dec-20-2006, 4:42pm
Making a nice desktop wallpaper - cheers.
Well, some of you may have heard of the Burning Man festival gathering. (If not, google it.) Every year they camp out in the desert and and do all kinds of artistic and creative stuff, that culminates in the burning of a huge wooden effigy of a person with his hands in the air.
Well, perhaps we cafe folks could organize the Burning Man-dolin Festival, which would be an excuse to meet together for a few days, jam our selves silly, watch name performers, buy and sell all kinds of mando accoutrements, pidgeon hole vendor's reps, and at the end we could burn a wooden three story effigy of a gibson F mandolin - - - - or not.
Daniel Nestlerode
Dec-20-2006, 5:29pm
Hans was testing those tops to see if one of them bears the inscription, "One top to rule them all, one top to find them. One top to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Hans Brentrup, Lord of the Strings
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Daniel
wichitamando
Dec-20-2006, 5:53pm
Hans was testing those tops to see if one of them bears the inscription, "One top to rule them all, one top to find them. One top to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Hans Brentrup, Lord of the Strings
MY PRECIOUS!!!
Jim MacDaniel
Dec-20-2006, 7:07pm
Hans, how much for a cord of your firewood?
Bear in mind that this is hand-carved firewood.