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Loren Bailey
Feb-21-2006, 1:09am
Was just looking at the Bernuzio pics linked from the front page of the Cafe. #Is the mando on top of the pile a left handed F style? #Or am I seeing thing. #It is 1 am in the morn!

Loren
http://www.bernunzio.com/new-gallery/albums/Gibson-Mandolin-Orchestras/Gibson4.jpg

Loren Bailey
Feb-21-2006, 1:12am
Wait a minute, now I see three left handed models. Negative has gotta be backwards.

Loren

danb
Feb-21-2006, 6:15am
This is F4 32618.. (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl?3259)
http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/32618_front.jpg

danb
Feb-21-2006, 6:15am
However you flip it, I think at least one of those is a lefty

grandmainger
Feb-21-2006, 6:29am
As far as I can make out, they're all lefty on that pic... The one with the scroll on the "usual" side is actually face down.
It's gotta be a flipped negative http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Jim Hilburn
Feb-21-2006, 9:59am
I just went through those photo's and there's another photo of the same group holding the mandolins and they're all righties.

mandoman15
Feb-21-2006, 10:04am
My guess is that the image was developed backwards from upside down negatives or slides, because its just too strange to have that many lefties.

Jim Garber
Feb-21-2006, 3:18pm
This is F4 32618.. (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl?3259)
http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/32618_front.jpg
Dan:
I understand the headstock on that F4 being standard, but you would think that they would at least slant "The Gibson" type the other way so it reads well when in playing position.

Jim

danb
Feb-21-2006, 7:49pm
Well the inlay likely came on a sheet that could be cut to fit the peghead. Not so the body or the peghead itself. Pretty interesting piece though, eh?

250sc
Feb-22-2006, 12:54pm
I noticed the 1 piece bridge on the F4.

danb
Feb-22-2006, 3:21pm
Bridge appears to be a later replacement

Lefty&French
Feb-22-2006, 4:00pm
Thanks, Dan (for all lefties!). Any vintage lefty F5?

Moose
Feb-22-2006, 4:14pm
Perhaps.., a group of "ambidextrous" mandolin players!?? hee.. hee.. (Truth is stranger than fiction!) - Prof. Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

danb
Feb-22-2006, 4:15pm
Hmm, I don't have a vintage F5 in the archives. My A4 snakehead was originally set up left-handed though, that's probably more common (just a nut, saddle, and PG to change)

Darryl Wolfe
Feb-22-2006, 4:18pm
My Loar was a lefty. Or shall I say it was used lefty originally. That's why I had to fix some scratches on the scroll. Think about it, what could be worse than having a scroll on the bottom side of your mandolin (just past the fingerboard) http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Paul Hostetter
Feb-24-2006, 1:37pm
http://www.lutherie.net/gibson.girl.club.left.jpg

Or is it?:

http://www.lutherie.net/gibson.girl.club.right.jpg

Love the outfits.

http://www.lutherie.net/gibson.girl.club.jpg


Check the strings on the bass, too.

MML
Feb-24-2006, 3:11pm
Wow.....Its a left handed mando bass, now thats rare http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Moose
Feb-24-2006, 4:14pm
I can see clearly now!!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif