More ebay emandos

**delsbrother** · Feb-27-2007, 3:39pm

**delsbrother** · Mar-08-2007, 1:32am

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Double-Electric-Guitar-Mandolin-Very-Cool-Rare_W0QQitemZ220089524961QQcategoryZ119
094" target="_blank">Wacky doubleneck.</a>

**Joel Glassman** · Mar-13-2007, 10:57pm

And shoes to wear with your wacky doubleneck:
http://www.daddyos.com/retro/ldyshoe.jpg

**mrmando** · Mar-14-2007, 1:14am

Sorta Jaguarish. Looks like the headstock is roughly as long as the fretboard...

I don't think I've had the pleasure before. Anyone recognize it? Japanese-looking sunburst and hardware.

**Daniel Nestlerode** · Mar-14-2007, 11:26am

eesh. If I bought it, I would take it to someone and have the headstock reduced.

Daniel

**taboot** · Mar-14-2007, 11:38am

I have to admit that while I think it's pretty funny looking, I'm curious about the electronics package, for sure.

**Jim MacDaniel** · Mar-14-2007, 11:59am

Perhaps a benefit of the headstock being nearly as big as the body: it serves as a counterbalance for the weight of the solid body.

**mikeomando** · Mar-14-2007, 1:03pm

Eight on a side, we hardly knew ye. Thank God...

**mrmando** · Mar-14-2007, 2:19pm

You'd be likely to get you some major sus-tain with that kind of mass in the headstock. You could strum a chord and go out for coffee.

**delsbrother** · Mar-16-2007, 3:50pm

Kinda Ovation/Steve Klein-ish e-Cittern. Just don't put too much pressure on that cutaway!

**MandoSquirrel** · Mar-16-2007, 4:24pm

"humbuckers wierd like a Les Paul with a Fender 3 way toggel. There is also a Fishman transducer pickup mounted in the bridge with it's own volume control and seperate input"

...so, does he think Les Pauls are weird, or did he mean "wired"? More interesting, the Fishman has "it's own volume control and seperate input" rather than Output; what does one plug INto the instrument?

**mrmando** · Mar-17-2007, 1:51am

That cittern is at a local shop that always seems to dig up some weird stuff. Will try to get in there and play it.

**MandoSquirrel** · Mar-17-2007, 4:01pm

Actually, from the looks of it,if I had the $ and any reason(or excuse) to have such a thing, I might find that one tempting!

**jefflester** · Mar-20-2007, 6:27pm

Kentucky KM-300

**mrmando** · Mar-21-2007, 12:17am

I wonder if the trapeze tailpiece helps this thing out in any way? (It's not original; they had a stock Gibson-style 2-piece tailpiece.)

**delsbrother** · Mar-28-2007, 9:20pm

OK guys, I think I have a winner here. While there are many strange e-mando/guit/lyr/dulci-whatevers on their site, BEHOLD the...

Banana Electric Harp Cittern (?)

I want it... But shipping + Euro exchange = way too expensive for what it is.

ps Love the scroll on the "stem" end.

**mikeomando** · Mar-29-2007, 9:41am

Why do I check this thread every day? Because it brings me joy. Thank you, delsbrother.

**mrmando** · Mar-29-2007, 11:16am

Holy freakin' beans! Where has Cassandra Elk been all my life? She gets a one-way ticket to the Emando Hall of Sh/Fame!

**Ted Eschliman** · Mar-29-2007, 11:38am

"Form follows function" sagt der Instrumentenbauer, aber hier hab´ ich alles außer Acht gelassen und drauflos gebaut.

"Form follows function" says the instrument builder, but I ignored that completely and just built it."

Yup...

**mrmando** · Mar-29-2007, 12:40pm

Here's her Web site, but no citterns there, just guitars. I guess eBay is good enough for 8-string one-offs.

**jefflester** · Mar-29-2007, 12:53pm

Originally Posted by (mrmando @ Mar. 29 2007, 10:40)

I guess eBay is good enough for 8-string one-offs.

Though she sure has a lot of them in her Ebay store store, many of them less radical and look like modified mini-guitars. I like the "Mockin`-dola".

**mrmando** · Apr-10-2007, 11:01pm

Couple of interesting Fender-related auctions here and here.

I wonder whether the painter chose her colors arbitrarily? Very few blue ones were made.