Here's some interesting stuff..a great American
concept..you pay more if you don't have all the money in hand
Here's some interesting stuff..a great American
concept..you pay more if you don't have all the money in hand
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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Whoever applied the dark stain left his fingerprint on the side of the peghead of 73481. It is on the wood under the varnish.
Here's another shot of 73481...
This shows how I've worn the varnish off of the heal. I've tried my best to not let this happen. These days I am not playing it with sweaty palms.
Another interesting angle...
See how the bone is dovetailed...
Great pics David..keep em comin..we'll put them on mandolinacrchive.com too
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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This shows the double bound fingerboard and peghead well..for those of you that have asked about it
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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73481
I never realized that was how they did the scroll point joint. First time I've noticed that seam. Doesn't look like a thin coat of varnish ,either.
There actually is a coat of varnish on all the binding, except in places where I've worn it off. It just has not yellowed much because this mandolin has almost never been in direct sunlight, but a varnish coat is indeed there on the binding.
David..I was one of the lucky few that got to play your mando. It was back in the late 80's I believe. It was Frontier Ranch in Ohio..you played my 1980 Gilchrist that I believe you were very smitten with and I played your Loar. We swapped a few licks. If memory serves me right you were wanting to buy that old Gil. I was wondering if you remember this. It wasnt long after that that I met Mike Compton when he started to play with Hartford. Me and Mike played a few together when John walked up and listened. He wanted me to put a price on that Gil. I told him it wasnt for sale..but he kept insisting....after I finally convinced him that I didnt want to sell it. He finally backed down....
Yes. That's a good one. I probably couldn't afford it now!
Thanks for those great pictures David, added them to the Mandolin Archive record for #73481
..well..you probably could have afforded it a couple of years ago when I had to sell it to pay for my ex wifes divorce...$6500.00....I literally got sick on th way home from the transaction...Originally Posted by (David McLaughlin @ Jan. 19 2004,21:54)
Jim..I think you will find that the line you are seeing is the way it was filed..not the binding seam. They let the button stay as flat as possible and the abruptly file down for the downhill slide
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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You are right, Darryl. There is a little "cliff" filled into the binding.
Here is a closeup of the scroll binding point...
Peghead binding detail...
And another peghead binding detail...
What I saw in the first shot is re-enforced with the new one. Instead of making a curved miter, concave on one piece and convex on the other, as I've always done ,they cut down to the blk./whi. and left a "leader" that intersected the other b/w ,and semi butt-joined the .060" whites. Either they cut out too much and tried to gob-fill it ,or that repair has been done later.
Darryl ,they had never done 3-ply binding in the scrolls till the Loars, isn't that correct? This is on e of the first times it had been tried.
Maybe they did the .020" blk./whi. first ,like Lynn does.
That miter picture could be misleading. (I almost believe that's dirt or crud, but might certainly be a bad miter job).
Most have a clean, crisp joint...right in the center.
Charlie
Well, it certainly has not had a later repair, but there is a lot of crud. Here's another closeup of that detail...
Here's the back of the scroll...
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