Lakewood Mandolin

[jefflester]

I remember Elderly had an acoustic/electric hollowbody awhile back that looked like it was made out of some sort of composite material, similar to the one pictured on emando.com.

I have no idea who "Ina" is, a couple of minutes of websurfing didn't find any info on her. But this pic was on the Lakewood (German guitar builder) website and it looks like more traditional materials, if not still electric and non-traditional in style.

http://www.lakewood.de/gallery/showimg.php?file=/artists/ina.JPG

[ira]

i like it! like a cutaway gone mad! ar e there only 7 strings? i only count 7 tuning knobs.

[glauber]

5 + 3 = 8! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[mad dawg]

Hey Jeff -- did that model at elderly look like this one (http://www.emando.com/builders/Lakewood.htm) at Martin Stillion's emando web site?

[kyblue]

I love it, and definitely looks like 8 tuners to me.

[jefflester]

Hey Jeff -- did that model at elderly look like this one (http://www.emando.com/builders/Lakewood.htm) at Martin Stillion's emando web site?
"I remember Elderly had an acoustic/electric hollowbody awhile back that looked like it was made out of some sort of composite material, similar to the one pictured on emando.com."

[mad dawg]

Hey Jeff -- did that model at elderly look like this one (http://www.emando.com/builders/Lakewood.htm) at Martin Stillion's emando web site?
"I remember Elderly had an acoustic/electric hollowbody awhile back that looked like it was made out of some sort of composite material, similar to the one pictured on emando.com."
I didn't read your initial post very closely, did I? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[Jim MacDaniel]

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So have any of these surfaced in the past three years? I know these are long out of production, but I would love to get my hands on a right handed version of the model Ina is playing -- and in that interesting green-burst as well. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[delsbrother]

It kinda looks like a mini-Octochorda!

http://www.kcuke.com/celebs/roysmeck2.jpg

[Bill Snyder]

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So have any of these surfaced in the past three years? I know these are long out of production, but I would love to get my hands on a right handed version of the model Ina is playing -- and in that interesting green-burst as well. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
Why are they out of production? The Lakewood guitar site is up to date. I must admit I find nothing about the mandolins.

[delsbrother]

The site mentions that when they were first starting out as a company, they made "all kinds of mandolin family instruments." I would guess nowadays the only way they would make mandos would be via their Cu$tom $hop, but I could be wrong.

I think a modern, Octochorda-shaped OM would be quite cool, myself. Gotta have the heart-shaped soundhole, though!

[DryBones]

I'll take that lefty! :cool:

[Jim MacDaniel]

I sent an email to Lakewood via their web site, asking if they had the plans to reintroduce their mandolins in the future, as well as if that still had their plans and forms to support a customer shop build, to which the owner Marting responded...


Hello Jim,

Thank you for your mail. Maybe we will give the mandlins another try in
the future but not at the moment. Also I can't offer you to build a
one-off instrument, unfortunately.

Best regards,
Martin


Maybe if we commence an email-writing campaign, we can get Martin to try another run of these? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[John Rosett]

I'm dredging up this old thread, because I saw one of these mandolins at Hoffman Music in Spokane, WA today. I think that they wanted around $500 for it.