looking for gibson expert !!

[manolo]

Hi
i'm wandering who is the sound technician that signed my Gibson 98's F5G.
do anyone have some infos ?

thank you from Italy


Manolo

[Eric F.]

I believe that's Paul Schneider, maker of Summit mandolins. I know he worked at Gibson.

[MikeEdgerton]

It is indeed Paul Schneider

[manolo]

It is indeed Paul Schneider

Thank you
Paul was head Liuther at that time ?
Had some reputation or add some peculiarity to his mandolins ?

[DataNick]

Thank you
Paul was head Liuther at that time ?
Had some reputation or add some peculiarity to his mandolins ?

Charlie Derrington ran Original Acoustic Instruments...Big Joe Vest could give you more detail on Paul Schneider, I think he was maybe there for a year or so...otherwise nothing extraordinarly special...YMMV

[johnsoba]

Paul Schneider Summit Artist V 2011

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hmmm...hiw'd i get them upside down? oh, well...

[Ivan Kelsall]

I believe that Paul Schneider worked at the Bozeman plant at the same time as Bruce Weber. A friend used to own a Summit 'Artist' F5 mandolin & we did a ''back to back'' sound test one evening at my home - neither of us could tell which was which. They both had D'Addario J74 strings on them & they were played with the same Wegen Bluegrass pick. The absolute similarity was a tad eerie !.
Paul Schneider also uses the same 'bolt adjustment' for the neck angle before finally glueing up as Bruce Weber.
I'd expect one of Paul Schneider's builds to be of a very similar quality to a Bruce Weber build - a very high standard,
Ivan

[manolo]

Thank you !
Lot of info ...!!!!

[johnsoba]

When Gibson moved mandolin production back to Nashville from Montana, they asked Paul Schneider to head up the operation. That's why his mandolins have a Montana mountain inlay in the headstock and are called Summit--even though he now lives outside Nashville by about 45 minutes. (Please correct my info, somebody, if I've got this wrong.)

[Mike Stewart]

hmmm...hiw'd i get them upside down? oh, well...

I'm guessing that you uploaded JPEGs. I'm also guessing that the Café ignores the EXIF Orientation field, and just posts it the way the lens thought it saw it (it's 2017, I really wish that would get fixed; ran into it myself today). The solution is to post PNGs that looked right on your computer before you uploaded them. No orientation field that I'm aware of, so what you see is what you get.

How'd you get them upside down? They were always upside down. The reason they don't look upside down is because every piece of software you use to view the picture (except Mandolin Cafe, obviously) looks in the file for something that tells it which way it's rotated. Once it figures out that the picture is "sideways" or "upside down", the software flips it so that it looks correct to you. Right up until you upload the picture, you have no reason to believe it's flipped. In fact, even if you knew it was flipped you might have a hard time finding software that can flip it correctly by actually rotating the picture. Why? Because why would you need to? Every modern piece of software will flip it for you, there's no need. That's why there's a field in the EXIF metadata of the photo. Of course there are exceptions to that "every...piece of software", obviously.

[MikeEdgerton]

I wondered why all the images on the cafe are upside down. Who knew? By the way the PNG was developed on one of my forums on Compuserve. I was a year behind the GIF but I do know how to pronounce it. Small world huh?

[Bill Kammerzell]

I believe that Paul Schneider worked at the Bozeman plant at the same time as Bruce Weber. A friend used to own a Summit 'Artist' F5 mandolin & we did a ''back to back'' sound test one evening at my home - neither of us could tell which was which. They both had D'Addario J74 strings on them & they were played with the same Wegen Bluegrass pick. The absolute similarity was a tad eerie !.
Paul Schneider also uses the same 'bolt adjustment' for the neck angle before finally glueing up as Bruce Weber.
I'd expect one of Paul Schneider's builds to be of a very similar quality to a Bruce Weber build - a very high standard,
Ivan

I have Paul Schneider's #418, the Two Point Prototype. Yes, it is a very high quality professional build. A Christmas gift from my wife. She was given an absolute bargain on it from Mark Franzke. Unbelievable price, for an outstanding instrument. Everything about it is first class. Fit, finish, playability, construction. The set up by B&F was right there in high quality too. Not to mention the wonderful sound! I should be so fortunate with every purchase I make.

[Mike Black]

When Gibson moved mandolin production back to Nashville from Montana, they asked Paul Schneider to head up the operation. That's why his mandolins have a Montana mountain inlay in the headstock and are called Summit--even though he now lives outside Nashville by about 45 minutes. (Please correct my info, somebody, if I've got this wrong.)

As being an apprentice with Paul from 1994 - 1995 I know that it's actually a Rocky Mountain Summit. (Paul's now ex-wife designed the Summit Mountain logo when they were still in Mulvane, Ks) It's reminiscent from when they were in Colorado and Paul was working with Ome Banjos. Paul bought all the tooling from Ome, that Mike Kemnitzer and he made to make the Ome Mandolins that never really happened.

[johnsoba]

Thanks for the info, Mike Black, and the photo infro, Mike Stewart.

[9lbShellhamer]

I've played a few Summits every time I make the annual tasting trip to Carter Vintage. I am always very impressed by how beastly and open they are. They have a VERY bold and open sound and they look great. They actually sound X braced to me for some reason, and I mean that in a good way!