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Barry, your action is high and you need a refret on the Gibson, so I'm guessing it hasn't had a set-up for awhile. I'm pretty up-front about my preferences, I'm a Gibson guy. My everyday player is a...

I personally feel that the oval-hole mandolins are Webers' best products. Their unique sound and build philosophy seem to come together very well in the oval hole instruments. I've never been a fan...

Not a Tony P product. Stainless round stock. Made a believer out of me.102117102118

I have an ancient, somewhat generic guitar stand which fits the tenor banjo well. In a fit of inspiration I bolted a wall hanger opposite the peghead cradle on the old girl. Instant double stand! The...

I have a Freakishly Large Ruby Red. The tone is nice but it's the noisiest pick I ever used. More of a squawk than a chirp. Also, I've never seen one with a bevel. Anyone? I wanted to like the V but...

Welcome to the brotherhood of the G. Mine's 2005. All the recent ones I've been around are very, very nice. Congratz!

There's a world of instructional video available,starting with the Mike Marshall standard, which is priceless. And there's a world of variation in how pros do it from finger planters like Steffy to...

I played flat boards for years, put alot of playtime on any radiused mandolins I could find, did all the research I was able to before I had my board radiused concurrent with a refret. It's not...

Thank you Mike Bunting for the tip on Rock Andy. I had no idea that was a Snake Chapman tune. Of course it sounds some different from what I heard in Missouri, but them Missouri fiddlers are like...

The act is very "Bransonized". Carefully arranged and planned to the last laugh. Can't be a very fun show to put on day after day. The musicianship is extraordinay, but the Lee Geenwood "red-white...

That's a good one, Mike. I've been trying to learn one called Rock Andy, but I need a soundfile of some sort.

The 80 thickness is awesome. I'll have a 100 someday. There are much more foolish stuff that people spend their money on. I have never encouraged anyone to spend money they cannot afford on picks....

He's playing "Johnny, Johnny, Don't get Drunk" alot better (and faster) than I've ever heard it.

Nice patina.

It really helps me to have played or listened to (closely) some top-tier mandolins. I know what a really good snakehead Gibson or Mike Black sounds like. John Reischman played his straight at me from...

The entire first album by John Prine, then some Pure Prarie League, Willie and Waylon and all them outlaws. Took some time to get to Red Wing and Red Haired Boy.

Give it some time, then re-evaluate. I'm thinking that a wooden instrument is not a static beast. Often, it seems, things seem to change with time more than they tend to stay the same. Unloading the...

Truly a nice man. Nothing "star quality" about him but his talent. Hope he is well.

With a beltsander maybe. Didn't hurt the sound a bit.

That musta been you, then? I played your Northfield, you played my F5G.

Dave has been doing warranty and repair for Gibson far longer than he has been the head mando honcho. Did some for me years ago. Good man.

Listening to WSM's Grand Old Opry riding around drinking beer on Saturday night in Hicktown, Kansas. Probably saw the Darlins on Andy Griffith about the same time, and Deliverance. The picking...

Short chunks of 4x4 otherwise used for leveling the camper, appropriately sized splits of firewood, the battered old TKL case, War and Peace in paperback.

I did not percieve a loss in volume going from Elixer to FW74's. There are some tonal differences going from a bronze to steel and they will differ from my mandolin to yours. Volume isn't a problem I...

Right now I am truly enamored of D'Addario FW74's. Really love them. I mean alot. Prior to this I REALLY loved Elixer mediums. And before that were affairs with EXP 75's and Gibson Sam Bush Monels....