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    Re: If you don't have the cash for a Gilchrist

    Wishful thinking.
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    Re: Loarfest for January 2023

    I think we all have mixed feelings on what you've talked about. It would be better if they were played, but how many battle scars would they pick up along the way. I've let a professional person I...
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    Re: Loarfest for January 2023

    I think if it was advertise much it might get out of hand. The room was basically full. It's more of a show with some bragging rights attached. There were some banjos priced. Just a good get together...
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    Re: Loarfest for January 2023

    It was a great get together. Hundreds of banjos, I think there was about 40 Loars as well as many Ferns. Thanks to Mike Johnson, I think he was in charge. Larry Mathis was there, he's the originator...
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    Re: Loarfest for January 2023

    I've got 5 and probably couldn't get my money back on 3 of them. Maybe I should have bought Bitcoin, nah I'll keep my mandolins. I think the grief would be not owning any.
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    Re: Loarfest for January 2023

    I got reservations yesterday, according to Crown Plaza they are having the Banjothon on the 13th. Should be great as usual. Larry started a tradition I hope we can keep up.
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    Re: Vintage Mandolin Cases - Need a Home

    Moderator's Edit.
    Please discuss personal transactions offline.
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    Re: Nice blonde F-4

    [QUOTE=journeybear;1854777]Geez! Check out just the description. :disbelief: If you have the ti
    Both are really nice.
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    Re: Fern Loar F5 Attic Find

    [ I got a call from an older dealer about a month back, I had bought a Loar and a 26 Fern from him a few years back. He wanted to know if I need a another Loar, I told him I had 5 and wasn't in...
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    Re: Damage to Loar A5???

    I'm in the pawn business, I recently had a fellow bring in a couple rolexes. He said he noticed a house in his vicinity that had had no activity for several months. He looked the house up on the tax...
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    Re: Cliff Sargent mandolin

    I was at that IBMA show and remember Cliff carrying one of his mandolins around. I thought he had an older Gibson but he told me he had made it.
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    Re: NMC - Vassar Style Head Fiddle

    https://www.facebook.com/susannah.cadle/videos/10155412286180041/ There was a question on where Vassar's fiddle is, it's in in Middlesboro, Ky. I own it and also Kenny Baker's red fiddle. Here's a...
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    Re: The only red burst Loar-signed F?

    I have no idea if it was the retoped one. It was the first Gilchrist I had ever seen. The next one I heard of--some time later, was Ronnie Mcqourys . I was at a festival with a cousin of mine, Doyle...
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    Re: Hindsight

    I can't remember the exact year but it was at a guitar show at the Ramada Inn in Nashville. I went with a couple friends who weren't that interested in instruments but other things. We took a cab and...
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    Hindsight

    I could have bought this mandolin one time at a guitar show in Nashville. A gentleman from Pa had it and a Gilchrist for sale. He wanted 1200 for the Gilchrist and 2800 for the Loar. How many times...
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    Re: Unusual brown paddle head A2z

    Wow, alot of history here. Doyle Sowers is still picking in the East Tennessee area. Like the rest of us he's age a little. I see him every year at the Museum of Appalachia home coming. He's a nice...
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    Re: Loar tailpiece Cover

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    I thought I'd throw these into the discussion, not that they are great but I guess if you had a Loar and needed a tailpiece one of these would do til a better one came along.
    I found...
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    Re: 1908 3-Point F-4

    Walked in a pawn shop in Buffalo N.Y back in the seventies, I was kinda get the mandolin bug. I saw one almost identical to this, except it didn't have the torch and wire inlay. The fellow wanted...
  19. Re: So what is the "real" value of a Loar in today's world?

    I probably bought the Skaggs Loar your referring to, not sure exactly when I bought it but I paid 32k for it. It's listed in the Journal with a crack under the pickguard. It's there but hardly...
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    Re: A case for locking the case

    I came thru Canadian Customs a few years ago, with a vintage case. The idiot that inspected didn't know to how to open it, it wasn't locked, they broke both latches off. :(
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    Re: Gilchrist Restoring the First Loar

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    Steve is a fabulous person, you guys are sure putting the pressure on him. His reputation has been well earned. As far as anyone else doing as good a job as him, you would have had to have had a...
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    Bad rap

    Giving all Pawn Shops a bad rap is like saying all musicians are lazy and will never amount to anything. Pawn shops are as individual as musicians, it all depends on whose in charge and their...
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    Re: Wanted: Prewar Martin D45 & '30s Martin D28

    I have a 37 AJ, it's a great guitar, I also have a few bones. Just setting around picking I'll pick up the AJ about every time. It's smooth as silk with a lot of volume. Then I'm an old man with bad...
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    Re: eBay Loar Tailpiece Cover

    I don't think 2 grand would buy an original , I would happily pay that for one-probably more. There were several of these look a likes popped up a couple years back. I got all excited thinking they...
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    Re: Did Lloyd Loar sign anything but the F5s?

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    In the above picture you'll notice the A-5 Loar surrounded by a brace of F-5 Loars. This photo was taken a few years ago at a gathering of some Loar owners from East Tennessee.
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