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You're right if it's back bowed you would loosen it.

If there's to much bow towards the body and you tighten the truss rod it flattens the fingerboard and would lower the action.

Is the neck back bowed? If it is just tightening the truss could solve the problem. If not I would change the nut to a taller one or shim up the existing one. I've had 5 different KM900's and never...

It's a Stew-Mac case that is no longer available. I've been look for one for awhile and have found them hard to come by.

If you have a peg winder take the strings off the posts that are sticking. Then wind those posts several times and it may help them turn smoother.

Very nice mandolin. Where did you happen to find it?

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Why not just ask Tom then? He's the one who'd know the answer.

Soak it in coffee or tea.

I'm going to guess this is where he went.

http://www.mandomutt.com/products-page/mandolins

Hedgehog did you know Joe Walsh played a LaPlant before he got the Gilchrist he's playing now?

http://www.kpho.com/story/20608644/musicians-prized-mandolin-stolen-sold-at-gas-station-parking-lot?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=8199851


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Here's the story of the return of LaPlant #125 that was stolen Monday.


http://www.kpho.com/story/20608644/musicians-prized-mandolin-stolen-sold-at-gas-station-parking-lot#.UPgaPf1nHiM


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Which mandolin are you playing on Rawhide?

Anything you see in the finish is from the lighting in the picture.

I think Lloyd pretty much had it by the time he built #6 because it's built as good as anything he's built since then.

Here...

Here are the new videos :


http://youtu.be/Eb49bwg64QI

http://youtu.be/7WI_iZqj08Q

http://youtu.be/H70IB5SztJw

I'd have to say #6 is the one because I got it for my 16th birthday and it was my first "Good" mandolin.

But, as far as sound and playability #6 & #132 are Engelmann and have a full rich sound...

I had my LaPlants out for new strings and some picking. So, I shot a few pictures too.


Left to right: 1981-#6, 2001-#106, 2004-#132

Martin,

You're crazy!! ;)

2 mandolins were listed today as make offer and this isn't the first time an instrument has been listed this way. Isn't that what Ebay is for? I believe the owners know what they want to get for the...

Any update on the recovery of the instruments?

I would say they lean more towards a 20's Fern tone than a Loar tone. I like the balance and projection that they have. His price is $7500 right now but he's thinking about raising it.

This is...

I believe it's 2004.

I just checked with Chad it's a 2001.

A lot of speculation on why Tim O'Brien went back to his A model. Here in his own words he explains why:

"After Hot Rize I electrified my A model and rarely looked back, and the F-5 mostly lay...

Isn't the asking price for a used Nugget around $25K? So, $30K with it's history doesn't seem out of line to me.

What it the price of a new Nugget?

No, he always has a few available. I just tend to like the ones he's hanging onto.