View Full Version : Is this a Vintage Gibson Lefty?
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
This is F4 32618.. (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl?3259)
http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/32618_front.jpg
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
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.
Bridge appears to be a later replacement
Lefty&French
Feb-22-2006, 4:00pm
Thanks, Dan (for all lefties!). Any vintage lefty F5?
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
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.
Wow.....Its a left handed mando bass, now thats rare http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I can see clearly now!!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif