With fabulous guest appearances from Tony Williamson and Jerry Stewart!
Type: Posts; User: Steve Roberts
With fabulous guest appearances from Tony Williamson and Jerry Stewart!
Come down from the cross.
We could use the wood!
Woodsy's in downtown Kent does good work. You could take it there.
Bob Smakula in Elkins, WVa has done great work on my old Gibsons. He comes to Cleveland regularly to see his Mother.
Gotta be the engraved tailpiece.
I got up close and personal with the Parrot in Phoenix earlier this year at the Musical Instrument Museum. My photo of the back focused on the Parrot, not the button. I guess I was blinded by the...
My favorite Jerry Lee line was on his version of Early Morning Rain, on the London Sessions album IIRC. He's ad libbed a line after singing about those big 747s-
"Honey, I'm the Killer, but I sure...
[/QUOTE] I first became aware of out-of-tolerance fret spacing on old Gibson instruments a little over 20 years ago. Since then, I have measured quite a few of them; both mandolins and guitars. The...
Happy Anniversary! Great piece Roger, thanks. For more about 70281, including video taken today, don't miss Tony Williamson's latest 1922 dispatch-
http://www.mandolincentral.com/breaking-news-1922
I had Bob put a new fingerboard on a teens A that had intonation problems. He did a great job and solved the intonation issues once and for all.
Somebody needs to present an opposing viewpoint here, there is way too much unanimity for the Mandolin Cafe. Someone needs to grumble that Monroe would not have approved of his classes, or that Lloyd...
That picture is better, and you are correct about the wrapped string ends covering up parts of the peghead.
Check our this Fairbanks & Cole Clipper model from about 1885:
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Those look...
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That's a head-scratcher. At first glance Dad's banjo looks like a fancy Boston model from the early 1890s, something like a AC Fairbanks Special Electric. The inlay pattern going up the neck...
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Visited the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix today and was very pleasantly surprised to get up close to DAWG's Parrot Loar and a very early Orville Gibson A.
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The...
Season 1 of C & R was great, and I have recommended it to anyone who would listen to me. Season 2 is focused on George Jones, with the recent episodes concentrated on his stormy marriage with Tammy...
What Tony Williamson doesn't know about mandolins is not worth knowing.
This is a great suggestion. You cannot go wrong calling Bob Smakula and asking for his thoughts. He really knows his banjos and always has a great selection of instruments on hand. If I didn’t...
I didn't know anything about them until my Google feed recommended this nice cover of Church Street Blues. No mando but a nice version-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O2kqQErjhE
Great video but the end is a real grabber.
Well that sucks.
I had some mandolin set-up work done in February at Woodsy's in Kent. I see that they reopened last week. Give them a call at 330 673-1525. They do good work at a reasonable price.
Could someone please explain this for me:
FINGERBOARD SET FORWARD 1 FRET
I’d rather not watch a 15 minute video on the chance that I could find out.
Thanks!
I recall that there is a very cool and large painting of a Civil War officer in the men's room. Not sure the video tour would include that.
Received ours yesterday, direct deposit. I'm still working and thankfully we don't need the money. So we spent yesterday spreading it around our neighborhood to public library, food bank, homeless...
With all the things wrong with this one, the seller helpfully points out-
a piece of binding is missing.
Well heck, if that is all it needs...