Masa's Gil is #182. I don't know if that helps someone with guessing the year it was made. But it's older.
Masa's Gil is #182. I don't know if that helps someone with guessing the year it was made. But it's older.
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Masa said his best guess was 1987 for a build date.
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sounds great...masa can play it.
His Gil certainly sounds wonderful.....but he sure can play!
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Masaīs Gil was retopped. It originally had S-holes. An accident caused the necessity for Steve Gilchrist to put on a new top. That causes the question as to when was the retop done...
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It is No. 182 that I purchased from Gruhn's in 1988.
Was an S holes type,; but of the sounding board put it, and change it by the trouble of laying upon several years ago, and thereafter the low tone which is woody changes into sound of the charm, and like it.
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Excuse my stupid question. Do I understand your post as: The mandolin has been retopped? Or, were just the soundholes recontoured? Whichever, the mandolin sounds great. I also like your picking.Apr-09-2010, 7:01pm #771
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grassrootphilosopher-san,
I did retop in consultation with Steve.
The result was have very good G,D strings for solid sound.
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Anyhow, it is a very fine mandolin and Masa-san is a picker with whom Iīd like to pick some.
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I'm kinda partial to the sound of this one.
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Hey Don:
I'm partial to it too. Tone or x? What year is it?
I got it in Oct 1999 after a little over a year wait, tone bars, red spruce, hard maple one piece back, tobacco, fern.
I recently played a 2011 that had everything this one has except 12+ years of playing Monroe style back by the bridge. I'm sure yours has it too.
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Dumb question: are cremona and tobacco the same finish color, or are they different?
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"is worth"...a thousand words and about 80,000 grand in this case. Thanks. Don. That really answered the question.
Beautiful instrument,mandophile! Where can I hear it online?
Regarding this maker,I had x-brace and tone bar Gilchrists from the early '90s;both had Engleman (sp?) tops I think. The x-braced one(#93270) had a flowerpot;tone bar with fern was #0229. I may have the numbers reversed. Because I can make any mandolin sound bad,I sold them both.
Here's my '98 Tobacco cross-braced Model 5, looks a little 'redder' than the one above.
Hey Alan: Bound f-holes and block inlay - is that an non-blond Artist model or a straight custom order? Either way, really cool looking axe.
Pure custom order on the appointments:
- blocks
- 20 fret flat board
- bound f-holes
- 'The'
- one piece back
I asked for the Tobacco stain. And the truss rod cover was my later addition: it reads 'Frank Wakefield'. About a year ago, had a full fret replacement done by the late Snuffy Smith, we went with the larger wire.
I love it.
Noticed David Long's Gil has the broken headstock...I'm sure that's a good story.
Here's a so-so pic. Those grommets are long gone.
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