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Spruce
Apr-15-2008, 2:52pm
Man, I almost pulled the trigger on this one.... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
It's an old hutch made from some of the nicest quilted Bigleaf maple I've ever laid eyes on....
The piece is pretty crude, so I don't think I'd feel all that guilty about ripping it apart.
Solid wood, and I figure there's about 10 F5s in there....
So-ooo, at 179.50 a set, I dunno....
But it sure is fun to look at this stuff and figure out how you'd take it apart....
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Spruce
Apr-15-2008, 2:52pm
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mandopete
Apr-15-2008, 2:59pm
...eerie reflection in the top photo - is that a ghost?
billhay4
Apr-15-2008, 4:49pm
Former wood seller turned Wood Roadshow host.
Very nice wood, Bruce. Are you sure 5 sets are in there? If so, I'd pull the trigger.
Bill
Man, I almost pulled the trigger on this one.... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
It's an old hutch made from some of the nicest quilted Bigleaf maple I've ever laid eyes on....
The piece is pretty crude, so I don't think I'd feel all that guilty about ripping it apart.
Are you serious? # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
John L
Apr-15-2008, 8:54pm
Probably worth more than the ask as furniture, perhaps a lot more.
Eric Hanson
Apr-15-2008, 9:18pm
The price is about $30.00 less aset than LMI.
http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo....de+Sets (http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts.asp?CategoryName=+Backs+and+Sides&NameProdHeader=Archtop+Mandolin+Back+%26+Side+Sets )
Definitely beautiful wood!
james condino
Apr-16-2008, 1:03am
Do it Bruce!!!!! I'll take a set from you and pick it up with the double bass tops in June!
j.
www.condino.com
Well, if you did manage to get 10 F5 sets (that cost you $179.50/set) out of that thing, how much would you have to sell them for to make it worth your while? Sounds like expensive mandolin wood (or I'm not getting something here, wouldn't be the first time)...
BTW, what is crude about the piece? I don't own anything that nice. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
jim simpson
Apr-16-2008, 7:44am
Went to a local antique show recently and noticed the wood furniture. It's weird that we tend to see potential instrument wood instead of furniture - like looking at a cow and seeing a meal!
crazymandolinist
Apr-16-2008, 9:06am
Don't do it man, that's a nice piece of furniture that someone else could really enjoy. If it were broken in all kinds of places we'd all say go for it but that's just not worth it. If it were an old run-down piano on the other hand.....:;):
I really don't see any instrument wood in those pix. I see a lovely hand made 1800's #piece of folk art/craftsman furniture and it would be a travesty to chop it up. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif #
There's a lot of VG quilted maple around...it'd be a shame to violate someone's beautiful work.
Tracy Tucker
Apr-16-2008, 9:42am
It's weird that we tend to see potential instrument wood instead of furniture - like looking at a cow and seeing a meal!
ROFL! Last weekend my hubby and I were walking past a local well-known restaurant, and as I glanced in the window at the tables I said, "Wow, those would make some gorgeous mandolins!" (Their tables had some lovely flaming.) I was accused of having 'mandolins on the brain'. Guilty as charged! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
blacksmith
Apr-16-2008, 9:54am
I might be missing something but isn't there a 1 in front of the 795, making it $1,795?
SternART
Apr-16-2008, 10:04am
Heeeyyy man.....don't mess with someone else's art & craftsmanship. Whoever built it, put a lot of effort into its creation.
He was obviously inspired by the "special" wood he found too. I know he is long gone, but geeze I'd hate for someone, on down
the line, to take apart one of my art glass windows.....to nab some cool hand blown glass that I used.
Old architectural salvaged wood is another story, if it was old barn wood or something that was being recycled I'm all for that.
I actually think it is a pretty darn good deal, just as a piece of furniture.
amowry
Apr-16-2008, 10:17am
There's an office building here in Bend built by an eccentric wood-hoarder that has quilt like that for all the doors, trim, railing banisters, and everything else. I went in yesterday just to drool over it. It's hard not to see mandolin outlines everywhere in a place like that. James, have you been in there (the Spectrum building on Greenwood?)
Bill Snyder
Apr-16-2008, 10:53am
I might be missing something but isn't there a 1 in front of the 795, making it $1,795?
I must be the one missing something. I am pretty sure everyone knows it is $1,795.00 That is why Bruce said ten sets at $179.50 each.
Spruce
Apr-16-2008, 11:42am
"Well, if you did manage to get 10 F5 sets (that cost you $179.50/set) out of that thing, how much would you have to sell them for to make it worth your while? #Sounds like expensive mandolin wood (or I'm not getting something here, wouldn't be the first time)... "
Well, I see violin sets going for well over 500.00 all the time....
And that's not wood milled in the 1800's....
Hans is probably right, so it'll stay furniture....
But if it was 500 bucks, and even funkier than it is (it is falling apart and not all that well-made), it'd be in several boxes by now heading for parts unknown.... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
blacksmith
Apr-16-2008, 11:57am
You're right, I was missing something. Geez, all I had to do was READ it!!
sunburst
Apr-16-2008, 12:07pm
It's weird that we tend to see potential instrument wood instead of furniture - like looking at a cow and seeing a meal!
Ever heard the expression; "can't see the forest for the boards"?
If you've never been to Bruce's house to see them, there are outlines of dreadnoughts and F5s drawn on the quartersawn cedar siding. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Spruce
Apr-16-2008, 12:14pm
Yep...
Just did my taxes and it's very obvious that I'm living tree-to-mouth... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Rick Schmidlin
Apr-16-2008, 12:27pm
I really don't see any instrument wood in those pix. I see a lovely hand made 1800's #piece of folk art/craftsman furniture and it would be a travesty to chop it up. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif #
There's a lot of VG quilted maple around...it'd be a shame to violate someone's beautiful work.
I fully agree with Hans.
thistle3585
Apr-16-2008, 4:19pm
I thought I read where Orville used to get his instrument wood from furniture. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
delsbrother
Apr-16-2008, 4:40pm
Chris Knutsen was rumored to have done this a lot in his LA days. One of his teardrop Hawaiians was found recently with a big chip in the back, and it is obviously made of veneered plywood - probably a table or dresser in a previous life.
I often look at modern laminated casework (or fast-food restaurant's tabletops) and think how much a real board with that kind of figure would go for these days... Or walk into an elevator paneled with this photo-based vinyl stuff (especially if it's "stained" an "odd" color like blue or red) and imagine it all as mandolins...
But I'm weird like that. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
mrmando
Apr-16-2008, 4:43pm
Yep...
Just did my taxes and it's very obvious that I'm living tree-to-mouth... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
That's OK, so do beavers.
Dale Ludewig
Apr-16-2008, 5:57pm
On a related note, back in the late 70's, I was building both instruments and furniture. Hmmm. I still am. Koa was available very reasonably priced even for a poor guy like me. I didn't have any money to buy furniture, so I made my own. I have two koa hutches, a desk, a dining room table (butcher block top- wonder how that look on a mando back), even a koa cutting board. But I don't think I'm going to cut them up right now. Oh yeah, I also made several koa guitars. Now- well I don't need to say how expensive if even available the stuff is. I don't know if there's a lesson in this all, but it at least an interesting look back. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
BlueMountain
Apr-16-2008, 6:51pm
Sorry, Spruce, but to me the idea of cutting up a lovely piece of furniture like that to make mandolins makes me react the way I react when I see a decent-looking mandolin epoxied to the wall of some restaurant. It looks hand-made to me, too.
james condino
Apr-16-2008, 10:57pm
Andrew:
I've been in the Spectrum building in Bend and seen the AMAZING maple that covers the walls there; ironic that it is just a few blocks from your house. Go out to his warehouse in Sisters some time- he used to have one of the largest stockpiles of striped ebony in the US. I know of another fellow in town that has a complete dining room set made out of beautiful quartersaw Brazilian Rosewood from the 1950s- large dining room table, chairs, and a nice coffee table.
j.