2011 Gilchrist Model 5

[Glassweb]

Steve's guitars are among the best arch-top guitars in the world. Simple, elegant, no-frills instruments that play and sound fantastic. I agree with Mark... his guitars might be better than his mandos. The guy does it all! Steve Gilchrist is, to me at least, perhaps the most impressive luthier of our time...

[OldGus]

Stop it fellas.... you making these mandolins seem a lot more attainable than they are for me, lol.......

[mtucker]

not a model 5 but....under Pops' watchful eye, Daniel just started taking orders for little Jags. I'm sure they'll play good.

[PJ Doland]

COOL.

What's the price on those little Jag cubs?

[mandophil(e)]

Back to our regularly scheduled programming.....

A beautiful example of Steve's artistry from the late '90's. And it sounds FANTASTIC! Steve seemed to make a lot of Artist models in '98.

[mtucker]

COOL.

What's the price on those little Jag cubs?

dunno pricing, email Christie at Gruhn if interested. i believe steve started by building solid body electric guitars in his early days....the next Gen may be cutting his chops.

[blauserk]

It seems as though this thread has turned into a show and tell so here is my #06612. Flat fingerboard,tone bars,red spruce top.

Do you happen to know if yours is tobacco or cremona? I'm guessing tobacco.

[Joe Parker]

Do you happen to know if yours is tobacco or cremona? I'm guessing tobacco.

Steve referred to it as Cremona when I received it from him.

[blauserk]

Does Steve personally prefer flat boards? The few mandos that I know he's kept for a while have all had flat boards.

[pjlama]

It would seem so. I think #666 is a prime example.

[mandophil(e)]

Steve built #693 as his personal instrument, and banged away on it, opening it up nicely before deciding that he needed the proceeds from it to move his building project on Lake Gnotuk along. Flat board as well. When I got it from Gruhn's it was set up to Steve's personal liking - strings about an inch off the fingerboard. Sounded great, but.... The guy must have fingers of steel.

[Wilbur James]

Now that is "MAN SIZED" , I can't imagine the strings an inch off the fingerboard (fret board?)

[mandophil(e)]

The string height mentioned previously was a slight exaggeration. More correctly it felt like an inch.

[sgarrity]

Ribbit, ribbit......

[Don Grieser]

Shaun! Sounds great! Have you been holding out on us?

[Glassweb]

Arrrr... ye be showin' yer talent there laddy! Good stuff Shaun... and the mandolin ain't too shabby neither!

[Mike Bunting]

That sounds great Shaun.

[Mike Snyder]

Great! Old-time sounds best on an F5 style. Known it all along!

[sgarrity]

Thank you gentlemen. I got it earlier this week. We've been getting acquainted and workin' on teachin'er some manners. We've still got a little ways to go.

I'm absolutely in love with this thing. It's just what I've been hunting all these years!

[mtucker]

You certainly look like you're enjoying yourself on that thang. Congrats, man.

[P Josey]

Shaun, that's a great sounding mandolin. When was it built?

[fatt-dad]

Shaun, Great tune, well played and what a cool mandolin!! Yeah, I could imagine that as the end game. . .

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[sgarrity]

A good Gil F5 is sure hard to beat. This one is #670 from 2010 and it's certainly the end game for me in an F5.

[Glassweb]

"END GAME"??? C'mon brother... you KNOW there's no such thing as "end game" when it comes to MAS! S'just the end to a new beginning!

[sgarrity]

LOL.....notice I send end game in an F5! That leaves me LOTS of MAS options!