Stickers

[Lt.Sam]

ok here is my Problem im in a band and i ususally plays drums for us but we are playing going to califonia by led zep and im goning to play it with my 100 doller mandolin that i got off ebay. I was wonderin if puting stickers on the wood would effect the sound?

[Scotti Adams]

only if you put them over the F holes....boinkies.... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Lt.Sam]

ok i was not goin to do that but its not an electric so iv heard alot about how the wood that the mandolin is made of makes it sound different and i was just wonderin if puttin a stick would dampen the sound.

[flairbzzt]

Would you put stickers on your drum heads?

[Greenmando]

Would you put stickers on your drum heads?
My wife does, she loves to put stickers on everything. She has a ###### drum set for gigs and has stickers all over it.

I doubt the sound quality of a $100 dollar mando could be compromised by anything other than a bonfire.

[flairbzzt]

Well said. And love the quote...

[Lt.Sam]

Well i would not put stickers on my drum heads that just stupid. but well im gona put stickrs on it ok....


Sam

[Bobbie Dier]

If you are going to rock on the thing, the stickers might help hold it together.

[Lt.Sam]

wow...... you guys are sooooo nice lol

Sam

[Bobbie Dier]

Just teasing ya Sam.

[levin4now]

Just wait till you tell them you paid a $100 for a rare mandolin worth 1000x times as much. They'd quit teasing pretty quick. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Lt.Sam]

i dont think so, its like a cheap (my first madolin but still plays nice with 20 doller strings) mandolin http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif yet i wish....

Sam

[TommyK]

First off, if you're gonna put stickers on your mando, you have to put a similar sticker on your face. It completes the ensemble. Or so my wife tells me. You must also put it in the same geographical location on your face as on the face of your mando. i.e. If you put it on the upper bass side bout then you need to put the matching sticker on your right eye.
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[Tom C]

<span style='color:purple'>If you do it, just make sure you post some pics of it. First we must approve the layout. Plus we've never seen anything like that before.</span>

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[Lt.Sam]

ok i just got some stickers ill post some pictures when i get home from school. i have some pharmicy stickers like (for the ear) (poision) (take with water) ect... they are the kind of stickers that go on a bottle of pills so help me out and feel free to give me some ideas

[mad dawg]

Just wait till you tell them you paid a $100 for a rare mandolin worth 1000x times as much. #They'd quit teasing pretty quick.

"I bought this mandolin at a garage sale for $100. That seems kind of steep since it looks really old and the finish is really distressed. Oh, and it wasn't even signed by Gibson -- instead it was signed by some guy named Lair or Loar or something like that." #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[mad dawg]

BTW Lt.Sam, if you haven't yet found this link over in the MAS/John Paul Jones discussion, here is John Paul Jones on mandolin with Sean Watkins on guitar playing an instrumental version of Going to CA. I like it even better than the original. (But your lead singer might not like it as much!)

http://www.comebackdownload.com/kilnmascali.mp3

[TommyK]

Just wait till you tell them you paid a $100 for a rare mandolin worth 1000x times as much. #They'd quit teasing pretty quick.

"I bought this mandolin at a garage sale for $100. That seems kind of steep since it looks really old and the finish is really distressed. Oh, and it wasn't even signed by Gibson -- instead it was signed by some guy named Lair or Loar or something like that." #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
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Surely your Jest!..... You are Jesting?.... Aren't you?..... PLease tell me you're jesting...... Uhhh, where do you live?

[Lt.Sam]

wo.... that madolin part rocks if somebody could give me there take on the tab because im not that good at figurin out mando parts by ear i would be greatful

Sam

[mad dawg]

I plan on working on it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I'll put it into Tab&#124;Edit once I do so. In the meanwhile, The Amazing Slow Downer (at RoniMusic.com) is a great tool for slowing down the speed of CDs and music files without changing the pitch. You can download a demo online, and it costs about $40 to register it for full functionality.

[Adare_Steve]

I doubt the sound quality of a $100 dollar mando could be compromised by anything other than a bonfire.
I reckon it might improve it. Especially if you broke the mando up first! Just think of all that wood being chopped - and the cracking sound it wood make!

[Lt.Sam]

ok ok here it is! my mandolin please no one make fun of it because that would cause me to become depressed and then die.... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif http://www.freewebs.com/samccone/IMG%5F1245.JPG

and here are the stickers sorry about the picture quality

http://www.freewebs.com/samccone/IMG%5F1244.JPG

and...

http://www.freewebs.com/samccone/IMG%5F1243.JPG

[Greenmando]

She looks fine, I was just goofing around about the bonfire. We save the MK's for that. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I bet those stickers are much smaller than they look, I would go for it and have some fun. They should even come off pretty easily if you choose to later. My first four mandolins each cost less than $100. I have been gradually upgrading thru the years by buying a better one and reselling the old, each and everyone has sold for a little more than I paid, some more than others. It's best to just play the heck out of them and have fun doing it.

[JimD]

OK -- put the "for the ear" sticker near the F holes
--put the "for the eye" sticker near the pointy ends of the strings (ouch)
-- put "shake well" on your pick.
and, especially -- put " Generic --substitution made" on the headstock --of course.

and, yes, I apologize for all of the foregoing. It has been a long day...

[TommyK]

Put the "may cause drowsiness" on the b**jo?

[mrbook]

Years ago, I played at a local Eagles Club where I met a guy with a really early Gibson A - at the time, it looked like pictures I had seen of one of Orville's creations, or at least a very early one from the Gibson Co. He had dressed it up by putting 1/2" round prismatic stickers all around the top edge, as well as a few smaller ones for position dots on the fingerboard. He wasn't worried about affecting the sound, and thought it looked really cool.

[Emmiemando]

Okay, Sam, is that a Johnson?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif?If it is, I uh.......have one too! Ahhhhhhhh! I feel your pain as well!http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[Lt.Sam]

Ya it is last night i went and played a sweet fender fm63s f style
http://media.zzounds.com/media/fit,325by400/quality,85/FEN0956300032.jpg its only gona cast me 500! its sweet i love it the action is so nice and the sound is great

well ok

Sam

[Tom C]

I'm still waiting to see pics of the stickered mando http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Lt.Sam]

Ok when i get home i will post a picture of my mandolin with the drug stickers on it.

Sam

[Baron Collins-Hill]

yeah, ive got a fender fm62se and i love it http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif