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How does one escape from Mandolin Cafe? I can't find info anywhere here regarding unsubscribing...

Hope these aren't made from the shell of the endangered Blue Sea Tortoise?

Actually, the methods described above are not the best procedures for working T-shell. I've attached a detailed, most excellent method from an old Mandolin World News article (I think by Todd...

Attitude will get you nowhere...but a professional appraisal (as so aptly and innocently suggested) will get you the information you want, or need.

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Yes, I also believe the majority of 'vintage' Kentucky mandos are still in the hands of the original owners...or at least in the possession of second owners.

I bought one of the earliest KM1000...

Yes, Elixir's have been around long enough. The effect on fret wear is no different than any other string that I've ever noticed. String gauge (of any brand) indeed has differing results on frets.
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I failed to mention one of my most favorite contemporary instrument builders (who also lives in Florida). A former New Englander who was the first to set-up Joe Val's Loar back in the 70s.

Ken...

Ken Blount in Sebring, FL.

He's an ex-Pat from New England. Ken is an extraordinary luthier. Some of the most beautiful guitars (visually and audibly).

Bill used whatever strings Gibson sent him.

He did have a preference for picks though...whatever someone else would let him "borrow". I lost count how many picks I lost to him.
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Would love to know who owned the reel-to-reel. I'd trade copies of anything they want out of my live collection for one copy of that session.

BTW: that bottle would be "Wild Turkey" ...and I am...

Monroe was always respectful of black musicians, very interested in all aspects of their music. Most people are aware that his early blues influences were applied to his blue grass music. What I...

I hesitate to broach the subject of Smith's book again...but one more time:

It is indeed a well researched publication in many details. What I, and several unbiased Bg Boys, do not particularly...

The pic was taken at the Executive Inn in Owensboro, KY...and yes, it was the last IBMA 'World of Bluegrass' week in Owensboro. I saw Jim P. several times with his camera. That weekend Monroe was...

I'm afraid, in this year of the Monroe 100th Celebration...many related products will surface in the form of collectibles (whether nor not they are indeed 'collectible' is relative.)

This may very...

I'm done 'sharing'. I only wanted to debunk the oft-posted and vague "I know but I'm not telling" statements. Lots of maybe's, no facts. Period...even though many of us have our short list of...

Now that presumption is "silly" ...even for my sense of humor. If I needed that sort of 'help' I would pay a professional for it. :grin:

But before I leave this thread, only to lurk while it...

Believing second-hand information as to who-knew-whom and what is a big assumption...a huge assumption...just because they say so, or touted their longstanding friendships. I don't feel a need to...

...and a pinch of pepper!

That's some of the worst 'hearsay' I've read in quite some time. Anybody says they know the person(s) is fibbin'...

...and it was more than one person (or Andre the Giant?) at the farmhouse that...

No offense...but that is not good advice. Those 'A' models are built like a brick *&%# house for sure, stable as anything on Earth. But, if nothing else, the finish can suffer from extreme...

Much ado over nothing, me thinks?

I first handled Bill's mando (didn't play it the first time, because I didn't know how) in 1964. He was showing me a G-chord, then he hands it to me and says...

WOW!! I'm feeling an urge to return to America and visit some family real soon...

There's absolutely no doubt that anything shipped via any company will be subject to the current temperature of whatever atmosphere it is in (with the exception of climate controlled shipping, which...

Not the "best" chop I ever heard...but Jesse Brock's mando (when he first started using a pickup) could chop a California Redwood to kindling!!