Just strung up the V6 in the white...
Italian spruce and sugar maple.
Just strung up the V6 in the white...
Italian spruce and sugar maple.
Peghead with tortoise T/R cover...
Sugar maple back...wet with water to show grain...
Now that there is COOL! That back wood is awesome.
A couple of mandolins
A couple guitars
An Upright Bass
Some banjos
Life is like a box of molases, or somehting like that.
Cool! Looks like a sharp bend on the scroll-- I'd break that one, for sure
Do you find moving the soundholes forward affects the sound much?
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SSSSSsssssllleeeek! I really like how everything you do from very traditional to very modern looks so darned neat, clean and right.
Jamie
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Very very very very very very very very very very very cool!! Sound clips soon I hope.
NoNickel
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waiting for new build from Ben!
All misspellings intentional. Even thsi one.
Very inventive. I like it!!
Shaun Garrity
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gorgeous original design. Bravo. truly. reminds me a bit of a jaguar sports car. if you attend wintergrass again, please bring one, as I'd love to hear it played.
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BRW 3-point #65
Godin A8
Kentucky 850 (circa 1984)
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Hans.... tested in a wind tunnel? Very nice, indeed!!
Jim
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Brentrup A4C -- 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin -- 1904 Embergher Type 3 -- 1937 Gibson L-Century -- 1939 Gibson L-00 -- ca. 1890s Celebrated Benary Banjo -- 1985 Monteleone Grand Artist Mandola
Hubba, hubba! Yeow! I like!
Looks fantastic!
But can I get it with a V8?
Sean
Looks like it's doing 100mph when standing still.
Very nice.
/Magnus
Hans,
WOW!!! 10 / 10 Very creative work you do.... Hope to see you soon.
Strung up in the white with no frets?
Hans you are quite the designer. Definitely one to point to the next time a thread pops up lamenting the fact that everybody keeps on doing the same old thing.
Bill Snyder
WOW! That is so cool! I generally don't like non-traditional instruments of any kind- but that is the exception! Wish I could...
Bill in Nashville
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Hans,
IMHO that is the best looking new style mandolin I have seen!!!
Beautiful work!!
Danny
Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments
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That's massive cool, mon!!!
Well HEY!!! Danny!!! Good to see you!!! Ya'll sounded great as usual in Cherokee!!! The mandolin playin' was right on, as usual!!!
Molon Labe
That is creative design. Congrats!
"...while a great mandolin is a wonderful treat, I would venture to say that there is always more each of us can do with the tools we have available at hand. The biggest limiting factors belong to us not the instruments." Paul Glasse
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Wild, Hans. Very nice.
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do ya do a 3 point !! with ebony frets ? just kidding, that's wonderful..
mandolinosoarus rex
Looks amazing.
Acoustical question - in most F hole mandolins the bridge is on the (imaginary) line drawn from the mid point of one F hole to the mid point of the other. In this one, the bridge is considerably aft of that line. How does this impact the sound - volume, projection, tone etc.
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funny.... Sort of funny....Sort of funny also
Funny, I also thought of a sportscar when I saw this mandolin. Ferrari, I thought. That is quite impressive Hans! Nice soundholes too!
Quite extraordinary Hans.
I´d like to see that one finished in an extraordinary color scheme.
My suggestions:
* rainbow colored back (for the understatement)
* natural sides
* two color wide sunburst top with blue in the center and red on the outside
And I´d like to hear a soundclip of that spaceship.
Olaf
Thanks folks! There's a couple more surprises in the instrument. I'll get pix of one of them later today or tomorrow.
Andrew, I think Dave Cohen once told me that the position of the ff holes had nothing to do with the tonal qualities and I believe he told me to imagine they were not there as far as the vibratory qualities of the top were concerned. Seems to be borne out as I've had the ff, ss, and dolphin holes just about everywhere on the Eclipse and Stealth versions. You do have to carve the top differently for this placement though. This pix of the rim explains why I don't break ribs bending those sharp curves!
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