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I can't tell the difference between the raw billets of Engelmann, Red, White, and European with certainty, and yet I'm going to be able to tell them apart by playing them in an instrument...?...
Have Mr. Vessel convert it, and you'll have yourself one fine mandola.... :disbelief:
There are very large tonewood operations in China, but I've never seen them documented or photographed anywhere....
(It's been awhile since I've done a search....).
For that very reason, I wanted...
Yes, here tis'....
No pics as of yet, but I've seen some...
I love seeing honest wear like that...what a cool looking instrument...
"Estimate:
$35,000 - $55,000"
See those reddish lines running with the grain on that Northfield??
Those lines indicate that the wood is either Chinese in origin, or Eastern Red or Rock maple....
Not European, and not Bigleaf......
Sounds like these instruments would be good candidates for antiquing...
...but there was a gold mine in those downtown pawn shops... :disbelief:
I lived in Steamboat Springs in the mid-70's, and a trip in to Denver was downright dangerous...
There weren't...
Gibson's problem is actually two words...
Isn't it wonderful?
Good one! I missed that...
This thing is looking better and better by the minute... ;)
Quite a difference between the two...
I'm sure you've seen this wonderful Darryl pic comparing an F5 with the A5:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4454/37619532371_b8ee439a1b_b.jpg
This should...
I love instruments that look like someone played the hell out of them, and this one fits into this category...
Those look like pretty easy and intuitive repairs, so have at it...
I think it's...
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Horrid martini...
(Which is probably why the place no longer exists...)
Wow, that's cool...
I thought it might be one big piece of wood, like some charangos or other instruments I've seen, but the back of the peghead looks to be quartered and the body slab......
Yeah, just read between the lines on the Gibson Wiki page, and you'll get a sense of what's afoot...
Probably one of the most telling sentences is this one:
"Gibson is a privately held...
...the pic i posted earlier was indeed a Loar...
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Check out the top on Ricky's Loar....
It's missing some sapwood on the bass side, but you can really see the bookmatch--or good slipmatch...
...and there might be some medularies between the bridge...
:)
I remember when #74003 did pop up on the classifieds--in the Mandolin World News...
Tut wanted 10K for it, at the time F5s were going for around 7.5K...
(If anyone has that issue--I...
It can do everything spruce can do...
My favorite Webers are a good example, for instance, and cedar-topped...
They are going for a straight-on copy of the Griffith Loar A5...
I've got one...
...something really cool in the works at Max and Lauri's... ;)
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4504/37711249302_1c6dc681e1_z.jpg
Well, some of those $200 Loars can be pretty funky too... ;)
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4464/37669389256_e747589349_z.jpg