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Yesterday,
1:35pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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There is also an obscure Tut Taylor album with "Griffith Mandolin Society" recorded by Tut on it. It's a very earworming simplistic recording, but...
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Yesterday,
1:08pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Interesting fret thoughts from PRS
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This just came up on the Martin forum too. As many years as I've been in this, I did not know this made such a difference. It's really something to...
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Yesterday,
9:57am
Darryl Wolfe
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1907-08 Gibson F-2 defines big restoration project
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Agree....looks like you guys got it for a respectable price too. Best of luck
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May-21-2013,
8:55pm
Paul Hostetter
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Will someone explain radiused fingerboards to me?
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Pete's right, 9" is pretty extreme, but wouldn't feel so extreme on a narrower neck. A wider board feels different than a narrow one at a given...
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May-21-2013,
1:48pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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That one truly is unique. I would be looking to see if they possibly used one side of an F5 mold to achieve that. Note that the body is...
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May-21-2013,
1:02pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Pickguard???...The one I traced?
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May-21-2013,
12:59pm
Darryl Wolfe
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One more of my comparison shots. Keep in mind that the two photos are not precisely the same angle
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May-21-2013,
12:22pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Here is the only subject that deserves a real Hmmmm.....
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May-21-2013,
12:09pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Yes...that more or less fits the same situation. If you look at the body (and not the neck), everything was done like an F5 in that area. The...
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May-21-2013,
12:05pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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Again, I mentioned softening or diluting the mystique of the Loar A5. As James says the 10 string was done the same way..in a factory. But, these...
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May-21-2013,
11:32am
Darryl Wolfe
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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She got an A with F-holes and a longer neck orientation and Style 5 appointments. The F5 has a carving pattern for the top The F4 has a carving...
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May-21-2013,
11:05am
Darryl Wolfe
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That is correct Jim. Edit, I may have read you wrong. F5's are F5's, A models are A models (including the A5), with respect to basic carving...
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May-21-2013,
10:41am
Darryl Wolfe
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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Any decent luthier with a snakehead A4 in one hand and a decent straight on shot of the A5 in the other.
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May-21-2013,
10:09am
Darryl Wolfe
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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Let me just say this, and only once. The only thing secret and special about the Loar A5 is that there is nothing secret and special about the Loar...
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May-21-2013,
1:47am
Paul Hostetter
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Interesting fret thoughts from PRS
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James, you evidently drank the Koolaid.
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May-20-2013,
8:53pm
Mike Black
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Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
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Siminoff's drawings are supposed to be from the Griffith A5, but I know for sure that the headstock is way off. Someone said that he reduced it to...
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May-20-2013,
8:28pm
Paul Hostetter
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Solid vs carved
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Which has absolutely nothing to do with his question about the guitar's back construction. After all, he said:
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May-20-2013,
6:56pm
Paul Hostetter
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Interesting fret thoughts from PRS
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Couldn't agree more, John.
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May-20-2013,
2:05am
Paul Hostetter
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Plywood repair... no really!
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Two-part epoxy is great, and of course it will "hold" but even the West stuff doesn't wick into delaminated ply worth a darn. It's dramatically...
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May-18-2013,
1:29am
Paul Hostetter
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Will someone explain radiused fingerboards to me?
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I agree. But in guitar, the difference is more important.
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May-18-2013,
1:25am
Paul Hostetter
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Plywood repair... no really!
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Builders and Repair
The pin bridge pulled off because the bridgeplate failed. String balls logically pull against the bridgeplate, not the bridge, not the top. It...
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31 replies | 1097 view(s)
May-17-2013,
12:10pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Did Lloyd Loar sign anything but the F5s?
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Vintage Instruments
For clarification, it was more like late 76 or early 77 when the A5 was sold by Tut. He called and offered it to me right after I bought 72615. ...
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May-16-2013,
5:08pm
Paul Hostetter
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Solid vs carved
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Builders and Repair
The old 500s were, as you say, pressed and carved, a leftover Korean technique. The current Shanghai Loars are entirely, truly carved. But the weird...
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May-15-2013,
1:33pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Did Lloyd Loar sign anything but the F5s?
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Vintage Instruments
It is not ..as a matter of fact I think the serial number is just written on the wood (no Master Model label) Send your credit card number for...
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May-15-2013,
11:53am
Darryl Wolfe
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Did Lloyd Loar sign anything but the F5s?
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I could use a 3-day trip to Vegas
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May-15-2013,
10:03am
Darryl Wolfe
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Can't find FON# on an A1
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Vintage Instruments
The fingerboard and the nut are replaced. Nut too square ended, 12th fret dots too close together
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10 replies | 948 view(s)
May-10-2013,
6:19pm
Paul Hostetter
replied to a thread
can someone explain to me this back ?
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Builders and Repair
Because it's a display of medullary rays, you could say it's the "same pattern," but the scale of meds in maple is very different—much smaller—than...
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May-09-2013,
12:52pm
Darryl Wolfe
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Loar Restoration
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This is a well informed suggession Mark
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May-09-2013,
7:35am
Darryl Wolfe
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not a mando, but check out the pickguard
in
eBay, Craig's List, etc.
That is pretty cool and novel
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May-07-2013,
10:32am
Darryl Wolfe
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Serial Numbers
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eBay, Craig's List, etc.
I must add that I did not see the post with the link by the OP. In this case, yes, it is suspicious.
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25 replies | 1119 view(s)
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