concrete mandolin

[Steve VandeWater]

Okay Jim, here are the photos of the x bracing. As I said, the top, back and sides are only 1/8 inch thick so I was being cautious

[mandroid]

Given Oregon's southern border is surveyed to be a 42 degree latitude straight line
so I guess I already have mine just past fret 20.

(No its not concrete)

[Petrus]

Love it. Awesome. If you know me, you know "the weirder the better" is one of my watch-words. This fits the bill.

[niels]

the f-style conversion, that elegant concrete bridge ... love the details

[Tom C]

Here is a concrete boat (barge) in Hudson river off of Nyack NY. From WW1. Experimental going up and down Hudson. Did not fair too good.

[Jeff Richards]

Amazing!

[niels]

Fellow Hoosier here! Engineer too, so I've seen concrete used in all sorts of cool stuff. Love your passion!

I'd love to play it for sure!

Well done!

f-d

wouldn't that be a good idea, and share a recording here? I would love to hear it.

[Steve VandeWater]

I'm planning to post a sound bite soon. However, I'm so bad at playing that I have to get someone else to play it. Maybe this weekend

[Petrus]

Here is a concrete boat (barge) in Hudson river off of Nyack NY. From WW1. Experimental going up and down Hudson. Did not fair too good.

Problem with the bridge height, no doubt.

Anyway the mando doesn't have to float.

[Steve Zawacki]

Did anyone put a handprint or write their initials in the concrete before it dried?

[Steve VandeWater]

Problem with the bridge height, no doubt.

Anyway the mando doesn't have to float.

The bridge height! Nice one!

[Steve VandeWater]

Did anyone put a handprint or write their initials in the concrete before it dried?

Actually that would have been a nice touch. A palm print on the back and my initials scratched in with a nail.

[sebastiaan56]

I've just caught this thread Van, I had a geekgasm, love it, totally, to pieces etc.

[Ben Cooper]

This is just too cool for words!!

[Steve Ostrander]

[QUOTE][It might be good for rock music. ...well someone had to say it. /QUOTE]

All these puns are starting to aggregate me.

Van, I appluad your creativity, and if nothing else, you built yourself an interesting wall hanger there.

[Steve VandeWater]

Thanks everyone for the comments/compliments/puns.
I have a couple of sound clips of the concrete mando on my i-phone but can't figure out how to post them anywhere. Maybe the wrong type of file? I'm really sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere (I did a forum search but couldn't find it), but could someone tell me how to do it?
Thanks in advance.

[Pete Jenner]

IMO the best thing to do with sound clips is put them on Soundcloud and create a link here using the link button.
The best thing to do with video is to upload it to Youtube and post a link here using the 'insert video' button.
You'll work it out.

[Steve VandeWater]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?V=SjA7cYK8tRY

I think I did this right. I'm not a computer guy so I may have screwed it up.
Anyway, here is the link to a YouTube video of MandoMarkinIndy playing Take Five on my concrete mando. I recorded it on an iphone and the sound is pretty muted. You may need to turn your speakers up to hear it well.
Let me know what you think. Thanks!

[robert.najlis]

I think this should embed it.
Nice playing !

[Steve VandeWater]

Thank you very much for your help!

[robert.najlis]

Thank you very much for your help!

no problem. I have to say - I never even imagined the possibility of building a concrete mandolin. Very cool! Congratulations!
I am amazed at how good it sounds too! Concrete - never would have thought it...

[Marty Jacobson]

David Pye said that any good craftsman could make anything in his material. You just have to use your imagination and make it work. I think that before this thread we would have all said this was impossible, even ridiculous.

Awesome.

[Randi Gormley]

Pretty neat

[Steve VandeWater]

https://soundcloud.com/concreteconst...ustic-mandolin

The link above is to a 40 second audio clip of another guy, Bill Pruitt from Madison, IN playing the concrete mandolin. The sound is a lot better than on the previuosly posted video.

[JEStanek]

Very cool. Who would have thought it would sound so good. I wouldn't have thought the top would move for it.

Jamie