She's pretty hot for an old gal

**F-2 Dave** · Apr-27-2010, 9:41pm

This is my new 100+ year old best friend.

**JEStanek** · Apr-27-2010, 10:20pm

Very nice. Congratulations.

Jamie

**hank** · Apr-27-2010, 10:39pm

Congratulations, your way coolness carries no doubt. She's another Great Gibson Nubian Queen. I was lucky enough to get my 1915 blackface A4 Boo (AKA Boo Coo) this year. I hope you are as happy with her, Boo purrs with a sweetness thats hard to describe.

**F-2 Dave** · Apr-28-2010, 7:24am

Thanks Jamie and Hank. She's had a new fretboard and headstock verneer put on some time ago. Whoever did it opted to leave off the fleur di lis. I just ordered one from Luthiers Supply Co. The sound is super sweet, and fairly loud, every bit as loud as my '21 F-2.
Funny thing, There are varying opinions about when she was made. So I went to the Mandolin Archives to see when other mandolins with serial nos. close to her's were being made. There she was. Someone had archived her already.

**hank** · Apr-28-2010, 7:47am

What date and model did you find at the Archives Dave?

**F-2 Dave** · Apr-28-2010, 8:09am

She's a ser. no. 9041. Which would put her somewhere around 1909 to 1911. There is a number stamped on inside of the neck block that i presume is the FON. Would that number help pinpoint the mfg date?