No way! Those reverse scrolls are very cool looking little mandolins. If a reputable modern builder were to put some together I'd be interested in giving one a spin.
Re: Worst scroll of the last century?
No way! Those reverse scrolls are very cool looking little mandolins. If a reputable modern builder were to put some together I'd be interested in giving one a spin.
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Absolutely - I have an old Reverse Scroll Regal - it is my 'playing on the sofa' mandolin, and when not in use spends the rest of its time as a pretty wall hanger. My partner says it is a keeper, if only for the way it looks on the wall (although, personally, I rather like the 'boxy sound it has).No way! Those reverse scrolls are very cool looking little mandolins.
Colin Bakewell
Re: Worst scroll of the last century?
cbakewell: I like that term "boxy."
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Originally Posted by Jim Garber
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Here is yet another excellent addition to this venerable thread. You can buy it now for $400: mandolin home made.
I especially love the super-extended fretboard for those virtuoso players to play those solos. I would not call it a Florida — maybe a Tierra del Fuego?
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Wow. A four pointer. I could live with the scroll. But not the fourth point digging into my belly button.
Before you just up and remove the Tierra del Fuego, you might want to consider what happened when the UK tried to remove Las Malvinas. Just sayin'.
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Found at the LGS. (Local grocery store, not local guitar shop). Might be an import.
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You would have to play that one gingerly!
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Nah, just chop away at it...You would have to play that one gingerly!
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I don't know what you did to your hand, but those slices on the tips of your fingers look awful! Maybe time to switch to nylon strings?
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
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You could actually use a mandolin to cut that scroll into slices.
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That could also be a contender for worst headstock...
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If that's the root, I'm not sure I want to hear the rest of the chord.
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Nice to have so many in the corner today!
There's always a ryzome for a pun!
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There must be a Society of Dyslexic Luthiers some where on the planet. Or as on the Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer show, the Land of Misfit Mandolins.
A couple of mandolins
A couple guitars
An Upright Bass
Some banjos
Wax Paper over a comb
A Loar era Didjeridoo
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Oh you'd stand out all right in a jam. Like a Limburger cheese sandwich in a crowded elevator.
A couple of mandolins
A couple guitars
An Upright Bass
Some banjos
Wax Paper over a comb
A Loar era Didjeridoo
"I Never Wanted To Be A Barber. I Always Wanted To Be A Lumberjack !"
Re: Worst scroll of the last century?
jim garners collection of pictures are so ugly they are beautiful. i hope he doesn't own them all.
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Hello fellow mando fans. I'm a long time lurker and stumbled upon this beauty, so I figured it's time to make an account. The guy that sells it is asking for ~$25 plus shipping. Sounds like a deal, right?
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I guess you can stick needles in that to torture other mandolins. Otherwise it looks like something from Backwater.
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I think they are cool. I have one in unplayable shape that I hang on the wall.
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I was reminded by another thread:
When I first saw the scroll of an F style I thought it was a ridiculous curly extrusion. And the headstock shape looked like a side view silhouette of a big nosed guy with a cowlick. It has taken some time for me to appreciate them.
Also, I am not aficionado enough to recognize the eccentrics. More than a few of the pictures in this thread I stare at trying to figure out what is the problem with that.
It is an acquired taste that most of us have acquired.
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That Ray Matty thing is actually kinda cool looking! Terrible dysfunctional design, but proudly wrong-headed. Go big or go home.
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Where is the scroll? Right mandolin to post - wrong thread.
Hello fellow mando fans. I'm a long time lurker and stumbled upon this beauty, so I figured it's time to make an account. The guy that sells it is asking for ~$25 plus shipping. Sounds like a deal, right?
Bill Snyder
Re: Worst scroll of the last century?
Here is a Shutt Style 3. It may be highly collectible, but not for the scrolls.
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I love that oddball Shutt! Early mandolin wacky design. Yes!
Jim
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