Post A Picture of Your A-Style

[Baron Collins-Hill]

seems like there sure are lots of F's out there, but lets see those A's too....

[djweiss]

Here's my Newson A5:

[JimRichter]

Kimble two-point A mandolin (style J)

[mandoman15]

couldn't resist could you baronski??

[Loren Bailey]

My Breedlove. #Hardly play her much anymore but I just can't bear to sell her.
http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/256/256653/folders/193697/1457693DSCF0047.JPG

Loren

[mandowood]

Here's my Glenn A, made by Allen Jones here in Missouri. #It's #59 that he's made and has been a great instrument for me to learn on. #With a varnish finish, it was a great buy for the price. A nice handmade alternative to a pacrim for under $1000. I added a price tailpiece and a sullivan bridge and it really sings now. I'm ready to move on to an F for personal preference, but I've been really pleased with this one.

[Ken]

Here is one of my A's that I still have. Birch back and sides, spruce top. This is my favorite for just playing at home, it's got the sweetest tone. For playing out I have another oval hole that seems to cut through a little better.
Ken

[Baron Collins-Hill]

i want to see just about every picture you can take of that newson, that thing sure is a looker, how's she sound? does newson have a website?

that J style is really cool, i like the mini point idea

dont sell it, i played a couple of breedloves that blew my socks off

that does sound like a real good deal for that glenn. does he have a website?

is that last one a brian dean? looks like one of his. very nice, i like the color.

[mandowood]

Phishfan- Allen does have a website:
http://community-2.webtv.net/bubbyjones/Glennmandolins/

He's a real nice guy and does great work. #It's not as polished as a factory made mandolin, but the tone is great and I like that look. #I'm gonna list in the classifieds next week if a friend doesn't scoop it up.

[Mario Proulx]

Here's my own little AM-5. Red spruce top, quilt maple back, sides, and neck(all from the same block of wood). Built for a client who wanted to try a different neck shape, and it didn't work out, but I loved it, and happily bought it back! Slightly shorter scale, too, and maybe that's what does it for me, as this is the first mandolin that has never tired my left hand. http://www.proulxguitars.com/clients/photo_test/images/MC1.jpg

[Mario Proulx]

Here's the back....

http://www.proulxguitars.com/clients/photo_test/images/MC2.jpg

[Ken Berner]

Unable to reduce the pics of my A mandolins, but will this one be all right? The one and only Loar Gibson A5 in the hands of you-know-who!

[Lane Pryce]

I saw that guys photo in the post office!!!! Lp http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Baron Collins-Hill]

i do know who? wow, ill bet that baby cost an arm and a leg and a rolls royce and a small tropical island and then some.

too bad its not a blonde, http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
that sure does intrigue me, ill trade you my A9

Baron

[oldwave maker]

brother of the loar a5 owner told me he paid Tut 10k for it.
my summer festival keeper, at least till cmsa in nov.

[Joe F]

Here is my plain old Kentucky KM-200S. #It's a Japanese-built model, which I purchased new in 1982. #It's been a solid, reliable instrument over the years. #Except for a graphite bridge saddle, everything on it is original.

As much as I like the mandolin, I want to replace the ugly plastic pickguard some day.

[fredfrank]

Collings MT2:

Makes a good wallpaper!

[chinatogalway]

A couple of ol' A's for ya' (http://www.chinatogalway.com/lyon%20&%20healy%20&%20gibson.htm)

HOW DO YOU POST A PICTURE HERE?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[J. Mark Lane]

Here is my plain old Kentucky KM-200S. #It's a Japanese-built model, which I purchased new in 1982. #It's been a solid, reliable instrument over the years. #Except for a graphite bridge saddle, everything on it is original.

As much as I like the mandolin, I want to replace the ugly plastic pickguard some day.
Well, I wouldn't rush it.... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[fatt-dad]

Three of my keepers, 84 Flatiron A5-1, 20 Gibson A-3 and 97 Stiver A. I love them all!

f-d

[fatt-dad]

and the backs. . . . .

[Phil Jolly]

Here's Driftwood #007... and she does sound as good as she looks. # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[Darryl Wolfe]

brother of the loar a5 owner told me he paid Tut 10k for it.
my summer festival keeper, at least till cmsa in nov.
I believe it was more like $7000-7500 and happened in late '76. If it was $10K, then Tut upped the price (his prerogative) after offering it to me for $7k. I had just bought my first Loar for $6K a month before Tut called. At the time the Loar A-5 did not have quite the mystique that it has now. It was hard to swallow paying more for an A-5 than an F-5 when the A-5 didn't have "scroll".

How things change

[Gavin Baird]

It's been on before, but it is one of my favorites...G

[Burner]

Any more pics of the driftwood? It's a Beaut!

[Lane Pryce]

I've got some pics up in the mandos in progress thread.Skip Kelley is working on an A5 style for me. Lp

[Dave Gumbart]

My Breedlove Oregon, with rooster. And.....

[Dave Gumbart]

The flame on the back, along with reflections of me (red Red Sox t-shirt, and tool shed that's now a play house).