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1:41am
Spruce
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Huck Finn Jubilee 2013 Ontario: Mandos and Festival notes
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Yesterday,
1:25pm
Spruce
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My last days on earth...tabs? Songs with a similar feel
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Monroe's "Crossing the Cumberlands" comes to mind....
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Jun-17-2013,
2:09pm
Spruce
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Loar copy gone in 60 seconds
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Nah, they'll go after anything... Like this for instance... ;) Have you seen the new Gibson mandola??
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Jun-17-2013,
12:45pm
Spruce
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Lucian Beavers in St. Louis MO... A name that still sends shivers of fear down many a luthier's spine... ;)
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Jun-17-2013,
11:10am
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Problem is, I'm firmly planted on both sides of that fence... ;) I love instruments that pay homage to the boxes we all know and love (I, ahem,...
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Jun-17-2013,
1:23am
Spruce
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Huck Finn Jubilee 2013 Ontario: Mandos and Festival notes
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Some pics of said mandos here...
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Jun-17-2013,
1:14am
Spruce
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Jun-16-2013,
1:38pm
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Just ordered a James Mandolin Tailpiece from Cumberland
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Equipment
Chip...I've read those rubber parts need a bit of maintenance now & then........as I recall it was a tiny bit of vaseline.
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Jun-16-2013,
12:51pm
SternART
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Looking to buy nice mandolin. Why so expensive?
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And like many threads will say........if you use the archives.......lose the scroll and you get more sound for your money. That extra fabrication...
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Jun-16-2013,
12:18pm
SternART
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Just Wondering ?
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I suspect they might tune into threads on their work........if someone hips them to it. After all, wouldn't we rather have them working away...
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Jun-16-2013,
9:59am
Spruce
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Huck Finn Jubilee
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Jams, Places To Meet Others
Some pics here... Here's a few mando-centric snaps: A Torch-and-Wire restored by the folks at Living Tree Music....
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Jun-15-2013,
2:57pm
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KM 1500 in classifieds
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I had one coming up.....some of those were killer....there were way less options back in the day, mine was a great mando, especially for the money.
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Jun-14-2013,
1:12pm
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Fender mandolins
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Guess you shoulda got a Rover, Willie.... ;)
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Jun-14-2013,
11:08am
Spruce
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Fender mandolins
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That's pretty funny.... I mean, they are both cheap Pac-Rim instruments, and not really meant to be taken seriously at all... Unless you want...
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Jun-13-2013,
11:26am
Spruce
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Huck Finn Jubilee
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So-ooo, I guess I should go?? ;) Might see ya'll there...
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Jun-13-2013,
11:22am
Spruce
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Premium Luthiers/Mandos No Longer In Production
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Same here... Just a lovely look...
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Jun-12-2013,
10:25am
Spruce
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Pics of Hester F4 in progress
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I just love the look and vibe of that wide-grained spruce on an F4... Beautiful work (as usual!)...
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Jun-11-2013,
5:57pm
Spruce
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Premium Luthiers/Mandos No Longer In Production
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I thought "Gibson" was still making mandolins?? ;)
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Jun-11-2013,
9:48am
Spruce
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Premium Luthiers/Mandos No Longer In Production
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Yes it does... I remember playing that mandolin for a few hours one evening, and then asking John if he could get "that" tone again... "Sure!"......
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Jun-11-2013,
9:46am
SternART
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For everything else there's Mastercard...
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Sounds to me like he has a lot of great music on those reels......most of the Bay Area band stuff has been circulated but if it was the Byrds,...
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Jun-10-2013,
3:41pm
Spruce
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Willow
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Hi Bill... I've got weeping and Scoulers willow.... Hard to find in nice clear lengths however... But doable... But the Western Balsam Poplar...
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Jun-07-2013,
11:56am
Spruce
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I am speechless.....
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Genius.... Sheer genius...
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Jun-05-2013,
11:54am
SternART
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A little graphic interlude?
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Photoshop is a deep program & takes a long time to get really good at it, kinda like playing the mandolin!
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Jun-05-2013,
10:58am
SternART
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"It's LONESOME Overall"
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Yep!!! VERY nice......
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Jun-04-2013,
9:59am
SternART
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Stolen Mando--any ideas?
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:disbelief: Woo-hoo! A new Cafe recovery record!
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Jun-04-2013,
9:21am
Spruce
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1930s Epiphone scroll mando on the bay - Artist model?
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Vintage Instruments
Wow... Wonder how the binding got so screwed up, and yet the case is pretty well preserved...? Binding failure in the case? Cool looking...
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May-31-2013,
10:34am
Spruce
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Announcing The NFM-EM Electric Mandolin
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I thought Warren was an uke guy...?
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May-31-2013,
10:30am
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The Tiffany Transcriptions
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Wow... I'm in with a gob of bootleggers, and no one has heard of this thing surfacing, which is a bummer... But everyone is very interested... ...
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May-30-2013,
3:06pm
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Spruce on the radio!
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It's strange... Yeah, the cleanup is overseen by the government, but I think a lot of the $$ is coming from the company that now leases the land......
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May-30-2013,
1:45pm
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This was an interesting trip... Holden Village is an old copper mine 1/2 way up Lake Chelan in Eastern Washington that was very active back in the...
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