Jake Wildwood
Jul-26-2017, 4:45pm
1911 Gibson A-3 with the weird pearl extra in the headstock -- kinda a rough mandolin, but functionally just dandy:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-063Rc3KXy2M/WXkI9G7cH_I/AAAAAAAAlvc/RKDU3MWavZQarskAiw4SQFUp5qcMjuw-QCLcBGAs/s1600/gib11a3-1.jpg
Click here for the blog post, more pics, soundclip, etc. (https://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2017/07/1911-gibson-3-carved-top-mandolin.html)
Next, an also somewhat-rough 1920s Regal tenor guitar in the usual spruce/birch:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PG1IQGVmiRM/WXkGFCTEVbI/AAAAAAAAluc/O2zGSTTV9jU0lL2De0-XmdpeOMRS6Mq6ACLcBGAs/s1600/regten-1.jpg
Click here for the blog post on that'n. (https://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2017/07/1920s-regal-sprucebirch-size-5-tenor.html)
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-063Rc3KXy2M/WXkI9G7cH_I/AAAAAAAAlvc/RKDU3MWavZQarskAiw4SQFUp5qcMjuw-QCLcBGAs/s1600/gib11a3-1.jpg
Click here for the blog post, more pics, soundclip, etc. (https://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2017/07/1911-gibson-3-carved-top-mandolin.html)
Next, an also somewhat-rough 1920s Regal tenor guitar in the usual spruce/birch:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PG1IQGVmiRM/WXkGFCTEVbI/AAAAAAAAluc/O2zGSTTV9jU0lL2De0-XmdpeOMRS6Mq6ACLcBGAs/s1600/regten-1.jpg
Click here for the blog post on that'n. (https://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2017/07/1920s-regal-sprucebirch-size-5-tenor.html)