Post an "Artsy" Picture Your Mando!

[mandopete]

We were working on a band photo shoot and I took the opportunity to take this picture of my Collings MF-5. I thought it might be a little summer fun to see some artsy-fartsy pictures of our mandolins.

[sunburst]

I actually have a folder in my computer, filed under "pictures", titled "artsie mando". I don't know who has the spelling correct, artsie or artsy.
Here's one:

[Darryl Wolfe]

I've always liked this pic of 76549

[Darryl Wolfe]

and this one

[sunburst]

...and one more...

[markishandsome]

Noot a mando, but super artsy

[AlanN]

Here's an **artiste** playing 73675 (he'll probably punch me for calling him that)...

[Hans]

My favorite!

[mandopete]

"Bad To The Soundpost" - I love it!

[Mteresko]

Wiens F-5 #16

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/miter/Wiens1.jpg

[cooper4205]

here's the flatty

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/wesb4217/Flatiron1.jpg


and some litho action

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/wesb4217/grouplitho.jpg

[fatt-dad]

Guess (well it has a round hole)

f-d

[fatt-dad]

Alone at the beach. . . . .

[fatt-dad]

Something white. . . . .

[pickinNgrinnin]

Stephan Passernig F5

[Dave Gumbart]

Posted this about 2 months ago or so. Still love it....

[DSDarr]

For some very nice and artsy mandolin photos check out Fletcher Brock's gallery -- in particular the photos towards the bottom of the page.

http://www.fletcherbrock.com/gallery.htm

-David

[mandopete]

Posted this about 2 months ago or so. #
Dave, that picture was my computer desktop for a month. And a second vote for Fletcher Brock's website as a source of some tasty mando porn.

[Nathan Sanders]

Here's a picture I took a couple of years ago. I've since sold two of the mandolins. I posted this previously in the thread concerning pancake mandolins. Do a search for the topic title to find the thread - "Compulsive Purchase".

[b.pat]

Booooo

[PaulD]

Here's my Lyon & Healy bowlback with a some sort of infestation. Not exactly "artsy"... maybe more twisted! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

pd

(The beaver theme is an inside joke with a coworker...)

[cooper4205]

my mandolin when i'm at work


http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/wesb4217/coolmando.jpg

[Yellowmandolin]

hahaha!!! I love it cooper!

[PhilGE]

....It's a freshly ripe mando, that has just fallen from the mando tree!

mandopLuker

Nah, mine is REALLY ripe and bursting with tasty tone and volume...

P.S. Yes, this was altered...

[ellisppi]

ok here's my feeble attempt. I should find the pic of me sitting in this chair when I was 2

[stevem]

Here's mine

[pickinNgrinnin]

[QUOTE]pickinNgrinnin -

That Sp looks just like mine ----a killer mando! very deep and dark sounding -yours?

mandopLuker

It's a killer alright, a regular M.A.S. murderer http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[sunburst]

Forgot about this one. I posted it before in a thread about Scotch, I think it was. It was late one night...

[Keith Newell]

Here's one, stump with natures decorations.
Keith

[danb]

My 2 favorite mandophotos

http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/9100_full_frontal.jpg

http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/76547_scroll_angular_shot3.jpg

[halfamind]

Here are a few shots of my Rover RM 75 (soon to be "my beater") on vacation...

http://www.neilbrennan.com/draleon/levitemp/driftmando.jpg

http://www.neilbrennan.com/draleon/levitemp/mandodock.jpg

http://www.neilbrennan.com/draleon/levitemp/mandodock2.jpg

[halfamind]

...and at home, with two of my basses. I've got tons of shots of my basses, but I can't stop playing the mando long enough to shoot it!

http://www.neilbrennan.com/draleon/levitemp/bassnmando.jpg

[Clyde Clevenger]

My artsy wife did this one.

[Clyde Clevenger]

Try again.

[pickinNgrinnin]

Nice Scroll http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[mandopete]

Levi - those are some great shots. I gonna use one of 'em for my desktop.

[BRW]

I took this picture a few years ago. I wish I'd had a better camera and better skills because the accordion and I have since gone our separate ways!

[Cary Fagan]

Here's my Holoubek fern model. Taken with my 9-year old daughter's low resolution cheapy digital camera.

[revray]

My Bluett F4. The throw is a hand woven piece from Churchill Weavers in Berea, KY.

[pick up the world]

my eastman 615..

[Fliss]

I quite like this close up of my Garrison

Fliss

[mandopete]

That's a cool photo!

[wayfaringstranger]

Sunburst: Hmmm...what's in that mason jar, exactly? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Here's my favorite shot:

http://static.flickr.com/42/98430943_325dbc2fcf.jpg

[ardbeg]

Just to let Sunburst know, the link between mandolins and Macallans is an old one.

[big h]

i love scotish pepeol....THEY ROCK!!!http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Darryl Wolfe]

Very slick 3rd shot halfamind

[danb]

Ben's Accordian photo is great

[MML]

Very slick 3rd shot halfamind
That Rover sure is photo-geneic! Great pics.

[Mario Proulx]

Here's our pup, Adeline, sneaking into a mandolin shot...

[AW Meyer]

In keeping with the driftwood theme, here's a pic of my Muth on the beach at Qualicum, BC on Vancouver Island.

[AW Meyer]

More driftwood and ocean:

[Arnt]

I posted this "Norwegian wood" picture a little while ago, but as long as we're posting pictures of mandolins next to logs I'll go again (unfortunately there was some polishing compound debris left inside the little headstock scroll that makes the binding look weird in the picture, but what the heck...)

[mandopete]

Yeah, I like the beach shots. Here's one against the backdrop of the Pacific taken on a bluff overlooking Kalaloch beach on the Olympic Peninsula.

(No financial interest in HBO/Cinemax, but I do like watching Deadwood!)

[mandolooter]

my 06 gibson shot for a magazine cover

[mandolooter]

maybe a bad idea...but an idea none the less

[mandopete]

That's what I call artsy!

[Ted Eschliman]

Two of my favorite "Whitefaces." Q-95, and "Curtiss" the Sheltie. (RIP 7/06)
Stay...

Good Boy.


http://www.jazzmando.com/images/Whiteface.jpg

[billhay4]

That mandolin looks like it has some real bark.

[mandodebbie]

Here's my Samick in poster mode.

[keef]

http://starshipcorp.com/peet/mando5.JPG

[mandopete]

Totally cool inlay!

[Brier]

Summer fun.
Peter.

[mandopete]

Cowabunga Dude!

[Gibson A5]

Nude Lefty Sunbathing (hardware not reinstalled yet)
Bill P.

[buckhorn]

my little contribution to art....

[Tom C]

BRW #27


http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f231/tomando/BRW4.jpg

[WireBoy]

Guess (well it has a round hole)

f-d

... is enjoying its adopted home just fine.

thanks again fatt-waiting for my Schneider-dad

[WireBoy]

remember compostion is important

[mandodebbie]

Mandodebbie avec Mandolin Enpointe

[mandodebbie]

Samick Flambe' par Mandodebbie

[mandopete]

Tres Chic!

[Clyde Clevenger]

The Emerald Valley Boys in action at the Oregon State Bluegrass Festival, with Sammy looking artistic. Ken Cartwright on guitar, Nikki Clevenger on bass.

[Jim Roberts]

Did someone say Oban & Brentrup? #I know, it's only ten o'clock in the morning, but the cocktail flag goes up in eight hours!

Maybe not "artsy" but certainly tasteful...

[JEStanek]

Apologies to Dan for borrowing a photo from the archive I like a lot. #I imagined a good chop on it at high shutter speed.

Here's a link to the realy artistic versions of this photo

Mando Archive for 37254 (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl?2481)

Jamie

[Tom C]

My mando had a similar problem...

[danb]

I like the booze theme.

A4/virzi + Fine Shiraz

[danb]

The Loar gets the single malt

[danb]

(too bad I don't get the Loar!!)

[danb]

Finally- this one rounds off the analagy nicely!

[mandopete]

I see that the Loar gets the "<span style='color:red'>Full Strength</span>" libation as well!

[danb]

Absinthe is a good way to descibe the 3pt. It's totally unique, not what you'd expect, and inspires musical ventures into bizzare areas.

The Shiraz for the A4.. goes well with meat, very comforting.

The Loar gets the cask strength malt- full bodied, unique, and a definite acquired taste!

[Fred G]

I took this picture a few years ago. I wish I'd had a better camera and better skills because the accordion and I have since gone our separate ways!
hey, that's my mandolin! er.. well I guess Ben built it he can show it off http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
It was weird going through this thread and seeing my mandolin...

[mandopete]

Well I was blown away this morning when I got a message from fellow Cafe member Sherman Barnes who did a watercolor of my Collings MF-5 (seen elsewhere in this thread). Now that's what I call "artsy"!

[JEStanek]

Looks awesome... Did he paint a cowbell faintly into the background?

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

Jamie

[Steve Cantrell]

Is that real and not photoshopped? If so, that's impressive.

[MandoSquirrel]

Absinthe is a good way to descibe the 3pt. It's totally unique, not what you'd expect, and inspires musical ventures into bizzare areas.

The Shiraz for the A4.. goes well with meat, very comforting.

The Loar gets the cask strength malt- full bodied, unique, and a definite acquired taste!
As a lover of oval hole Gibsons' looking at the 3 Pt., I'm reminded that "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder".
Hey, don't deny, you all thought it, too, didn't you?
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Professor PT]

Is it legal in the UK? Absinthe has been illegal here in the states for a while, I believe, since it's said to cause dementia. I've always wanted to at least try it--and to try a three point!

[danb]

well my bottle doesn't contain wormwood according to the label, so it's just a licorice-tasting liquor I guess. I've had that for years, I loved the label http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Bertram Henze]

Absinthe is a good way to descibe the 3pt. It's totally unique, not what you'd expect, and inspires musical ventures into bizzare areas.

The Shiraz for the A4.. goes well with meat, very comforting.

The Loar gets the cask strength malt- full bodied, unique, and a definite acquired taste!
I'd suggest a stronger celtic angle for the visual bottling combinations:

A4 - Highland Park 12 (both associate long dark evenings)
Loar - MacAllan Elegancia (the name says it all)
3-point - Ardbeg 10 (leading taste into extremes)

Bertram

[danb]

Not so extreme of a tone, just kinda different from a run of the mill F4:
F4 #9100 sound clips:
June Apple (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/sound_clips/9100_june_apple.mp3)

the first of october (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/sound_clips/9100_first_october.mp3)

Same jig on Wiens 22, which sounds so much like 76547 it's sick..
the first of october (http://www.mandolinarchive.com/sound_clips/wiens22_first_october.mp3)

[Ted Eschliman]

In Progress, Old Wave "Solocomp JM," Alto Guitar/Jazz Mandola with some cool shop lighting:

http://jazzmando.com/images/SolocompTop.jpg

[mandolooter]

100 year old Gibson A1

[jim simpson]

How about art with mandolins or art object with mandolins? Here is a magazine rack from the 50's:

[F5G WIZ]

Another in the "wood" theme. #My new Poe.

[cooper4205]

those Poe's are about the cleanest looking mandolins around, it's hard to believe he is young as he is turning those things out.

[F5G WIZ]

Can't wait to see what he is building in 10 years.

[cooper4205]

Can't wait to see what he is building in 10 years.
i know, that one you got there is absolutely beautiful. i'm partial to the block inlays, and that B/I/B binding is too cool.

[jacobw]

Collings MT

[F5G WIZ]

It's really startin' to open up and get some good low and mid range. Just in case you guys were lookin' there is a poe for sale on ebay. I bid on it but the wife won't let me bid any higher on it, seein' as though I just bought one!

[JEStanek]

From my Doctor's office. (More mandolin archive raiding)

Jamie

[Lane Pryce]

Yikes!!!! Lp

[Darryl Wolfe]

Kinda nifty

[Catdaddy]

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i117/catdaddyxx/funny0296.jpg

[jim simpson]

Progress

[Bob Kellett]

My superb Ratcliff!!

[Bob Kellett]

and another......

[rmoss]

Photoshop is too cool.

[barry k]

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[cooper4205]

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/wesb4217/F3scroll.jpg

[Soupy1957]

my MK
-Soupy1957

[racer122]

I'm very excited about my new mando. It's currently nameless, made by a luthier in Ohio (Neil Kraft).

http://home.comcast.net/~b.linn/6d_1.jpg

[JasonN]

Here's my "snake head" mando... he he...
http://lantech.geekvenue.net/misc/snakehead.jpg

[JEStanek]

I doubt that particular Weber has much venom in it's "bite" but I would hazzard a guess it can squeeze great tone out of you. Cool photo.

Jamie

[hobbitgirl3]

Oh! Beautiful snake and mandolin (of course). What kind of snake is that? I know I've seen that kind of snake before, I just can't put my finger on it though.

[big h]

i think its a ball python.tell me if im rong.

[Lane Pryce]

Bet he don't get much company. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif Lp

[hobbitgirl3]

It does look like a ball python. That was my first thought in fact. Gosh, for someone who's handled pythons and constrictors I should know this.

[halfamind]

that's just a tattoo waitin' to happen! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Steven Stone]

Here's a shot of the back of my '31 fern

[PhilGE]

Tony Drehfal made this self-portrait image. Here's the story:

I wanted you to know that I "borrowed" one of your digital images taken
of your Old Wave (that I found on the mandolincafe site) and have used
it in a photo collage that I am working on for this year's family
holiday card. Our card's theme is our favorite artists - we each have
our portrait integrated into an artwork by one of our favorite artists,
in my case Albrect Durer. Attached you will find a digital proof of my
portion of a work in progress. To get the light reflection "correct" I
flipped the mandolin (so the strings are the wrong way). Those classical
artist always get the strings wrong! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Mario Proulx]

Fall... My favorite season.

[big h]

Fall... My favorite season.
mine to http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[dwllal]

What a pair... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[Stillpicking]

Here is one of my new prints in a series I am working on.

Mike

[Jim Roberts]

Varnish Collings MT2V with a burgundy stain along side a bottle of Bruichladdich Cask Strength 15 year old single malt. #Yowza! #The single malt was sipped, and I do mean sipped, this weekend with some dear friends. #

[BRW]

I was working on a new 360 for my site (http://www.brw-instruments.com/FT-MS%20360.html) and I came up with this background and I thought I'd share in the Artsy topic. If you want more sizes you can get them on my site in the downloads section.

[Bill Van Liere]

A BRW after more than a few sips

[Mark Marino]

One of the good sounding old '16 A-0's. Nothing fancy, but I like it that way

[Avi Ziv]

My Flatiron

[mandolooter]

not sure its art but i like the pic.

[sunburst]

I was burning the midnight oil again last night.
Actually, I was burning wood, and actually it was more like earlier this morning, but I was side-lighting this mandolin that I'm in the process of sanding looking for scratches and things, and thought I'd snap a few shots.

[sunburst]

...

[sunburst]

...

[bluegrassplayer]

Now that is a perfect scroll!

[JEStanek]

That's what I was thinking too. Great looking scroll, John.

Jamie

[ab4usa]

John,

Don't want this to go to your head, but one of those pics is now my background

[Stillpicking]

Here is another

[Stillpicking]

and.........another http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
you can check out more of my artwork if you like at

www.art.com/memberartist/Michael_Voelkl

[Jerry Byers]

...

[Bill Snyder]

I think Mr. Hamlett is just showing off. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Dean Henderson]

Can't wait to see what he is building in 10 years.
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:navy'>I can't wait to see what he is building this year. #I just sent Andy a deposit on my Poe F5.</span></span></span>

[Steve Cantrell]

Same here, Road Dog. It's going to be a long wait.

[squirrelabama]

a2zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[danb]

Jim, that 1988 Bruichladdich just popped up in price to near $250/bottle.. enjoy it while it lasts !

[Lex Luthier]

I like both of these shots I took.

[Lex Luthier]

The other.

[Bertram Henze]

Beauty arose from it's coffin. I like the diffuse light reflected from the left side of the top - makes it look like a matte finish.
Would have looked even better on a wooden floor. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Bertram

[Harrmob]

some of my interests

[LateBloomer]

Just playing with the light tunnel effect.

[LateBloomer]

One more

[JEStanek]

Chewie, make the jump to light speed!

Cool photoeffects.

Jamie

[otterly2k]

Jamie... you crack me up! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Hey... that must be the Mandolinium Falcon....

(geeks r us!)

[Steve Cantrell]

Playing the mandolin ain't like dusting crops, boys.

[buckhorn]

here is my first try with birdseye

[Bill Snyder]

i am not so sure some of these pictures that have been postedare what you would call artsie. They probably would fit right in with the ones in this old thread. (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=23;t=26358)

[LateBloomer]

Buckhorn,
What a beautiful mandolin! Now bring that baby in out of the cold!

[Bill Snyder]

LateBloomer,
What kind of mandolin is that? The f-holes and tailpiece don't look like most of the modern mandolins but the mandolin does not appear to be old.

[LateBloomer]

Hi Curious,
It's a 1975 Unicorn #14 made by Rolfe Gearhardt. It's in great shape, I don't think it got much playing action before I bought it - but now it get played everyday. I'm very happy with her!

[Brian Aldridge]

That Unicorn that LateBloomer has is an incredible mandolin. It was bought originally in 1975 by Cafe frequenter Jim Pullen. I ended up trading him out of it because I am such a huge fan of Rolfe's early work. I just wasn't playing as much as it deserved so I sold it to LateBloomer only because she would. I do get to play it from time to time, and it always makes me smile and shake my head. Why don't you post a non-effects artsy shot of it LateBloomer?

[LateBloomer]

Brian... is that a challenge?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[LateBloomer]

Curious, here is the tailpiece

[cooper4205]

here's a photoshopped scroll from an F2

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/wesb4217/F2loarscrollclose1color2small.jpg

[fwoompf]

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~garnetb/mandopic/back.jpg

[Lefty&French]

Dark after dawg...

[ellisppi]

thread rescued from oblivion

[F5G WIZ]

Beautiful Tom!!

[mandopete]

Wow and WOW!

That's going on my computer desktop!

[Mario Proulx]

Whahhhhhhhhhh!!!

[sgarrity]

Dang those are stunning!! I'm afraid to play an Ellis cuz I bet I'd be trying to find a way to buy it!

Shaun

[Ted Eschliman]

Beauty in nature... and mandos (http://jazzmando.com/images/JazzBryn.jpg).

[John Hill]

Well...uh, I'd say that jazzbox has just enough bottom-end to round out the tone...you know, so there's not to much treble.

[Jim Broyles]

Here's my feeble attempt.

[Truckadero]

nice jbmando!

[Antlurz]

A little different...

[ethanopia]

Here is one me playing mine, I use it from time to time when an artsy photo of a mandolin is required, so it qualifies I think...

[JEStanek]

This may deserve a bump. There's some real nice composing in here...

Jamie

[jeff_75]

http://i31.############/2vmzn0j.jpg

http://i25.############/2a8hhg3.jpg

[Geoff B]

forgot about this thread! Some beautiful shots here. here's one...

[Ted Eschliman]

Some instruments are so beautiful, they don't even need Photoshop:

http://jazzmando.com/images/CJM_Face2.jpg

[pjlama]

Ted, I have to agree I was just at Austin's website looking at the two points. Yours is absolutely stunning, I'm supposed to be over my MAS http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Rick Albertson]

Lots of great photos!

I've shown this one before.

Rick

[Dan Voight]

Symposium 2008

[Geoff B]

nice Dan! I wish I could have been there...

[mandopete]

Cool! I see that Sherman Barnes has posted an ad on the Mandolin Cafe classifieds in support of Butch Baldassari. #The ad is here (http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=29090&query=retrieval)

If you go to his#website (http://www.grits.addr.com) and click on "watercolors" and "musicians" you'll see a watercolor of my MF-5 (seen earlier in this very thread & my avatar).

[Amandalyn]

Here's 2- a Randy Wood 2 pt & Will Kimbles first F.

[GRW3]

Just the standard MAC image editing...

[oldwave maker]

My recent Valley Tan magazine ad:

[shadco]

Everyones opinion of art is different.

but I like this one.

http://www.pbase.com/shadco/image/96084427.jpg

[mandopete]

Nice distressing!

[Rick Banuelos]

Can't resist....

Thanks, Brett.

[mandopete]

SUPERSIZE me!

[kimert]

I guess this would be considered more "candid" than artsy but ....

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/kimertt/DSC01178.jpg

[ellisppi]

wire up in smoke

[gibson mandoman]

Tom, that is awesome!

[Ronbo]

Gilchrist and Pumpkin

[Michael Cameron]

This is as artsy fartsy as I get...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w13/mdc50/Red%20Diamond%20with%20aluminum%20bridge-saddle/IMG_0632.jpg

or maybe...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w13/mdc50/Red%20Diamond%20with%20aluminum%20bridge-saddle/IMG_0282.jpg

?
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w13/mdc50/Red%20Diamond%20with%20aluminum%20bridge-saddle/IMG_0275.jpg

[Bertram Henze]

This is as artsy fartsy as I get...


Black strings? :disbelief: Never seen those before. What are they?

Bertram

[woodwizard]

It's fall and my Red Maples are sure pretty this time of the year. Good excuse to hold my Goldrush up for a couple of pics. :)

[Michael Cameron]

Black strings? :disbelief: Never seen those before. What are they?

Bertram

Black Diamonds. I bought a bunch,in bulk. Not sure they make them anymore(?)

I really like them on certain mandolins,especially the "plain" strings,they are a pleasure to slide around on. No rough spots for left hand;but,they show pick wear fairly quickly.

c

[Jordan Ramsey]

Saw the other Sam Bush and it made me remember some photos a friend took recently.

[Michael Cameron]

It's fall and my Red Maples are sure pretty this time of the year. Good excuse to hold my Goldrush up for a couple of pics. :)

Fern headstock,gold hardware and Handel tuning buttons! Those buttons didn't come with the mandolin,right?

What design is in the middle of your Handel buttons?(I've seen circles,diamonds,and stars).

A work of art for sure!

Gawgeous.

c

[Devitt]

along the blueridge mtns.

[Jonathan Peck]

My attempt at artsyhttp://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=113&pictureid=1067

[woodwizard]

Fern headstock,gold hardware and Handel tuning buttons! Those buttons didn't come with the mandolin,right?

What design is in the middle of your Handel buttons?(I've seen circles,diamonds,and stars).

A work of art for sure!

Gawgeous.

c

No ... they didn't come with it. Special order ...These have the star in the middle w/abalone-mop and silver wire. Thanks

[AlanN]

Hey Ron,

Your Gilly looks nice, especially that itty bitty florida...what year is it?

[Devitt]

2006 North Carolina

[mandolooter]

I like it Devitt! I got a friend here in Idaho named Devitt...he's a guitar player and wine expert.

[woodwizard]

2006 North Carolina
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NICE! Do those grow wild up there in North Carolina? :)

[Barbara Shultz]

Here's a photo of my fellow band member, Scott Ross', 1922 Gibson F-4 with one-piece curly maple back..

[squirrelabama]

Johnathan..... you and I have the same eye for artsy!!! :grin:

[Robert Moreau]

My Friend's Brazillian model. A Giannini.

[MLT]

Here is one of mine while it was resting in the Candian Countryside

[Michael Cameron]

The back on Barbara's F-4...outstanding!

The Lyon&Healys(sp?);never get tired of seeing them!

MLT's...instrument...WOW!

I've enjoyed the show;hope to see more contributions;and,
will take some more pics to add.

Thanks to all!


Mike

[Bertram Henze]

Here is one of mine while it was resting in the Candian Countryside

Can't decide which is more outstanding - the mandolin with that cool soundhole design or the case with the nostalgic lining :disbelief:

Bertram

[Don Grieser]

I did a show with Jon Pickens who lives down the road from me in New Mexico and we did a multitrack recording of it that we're trying to get ready for releasing. This is what the cover may look like. And that's the backdrop for the outdoor stage at his venue. My Campanella Due is the featured mandolin. Does this qualify as "arty"?

[Ronbo]

Hey Ron,

Your Gilly looks nice, especially that itty bitty florida...what year is it?

Alan,

Steve built my mando in 1983. I bought it in 1988 from Paul Adkins whom I was playing mando for at the time. As Bill Monroe would have said..."it's been a powerful mandolin down through the years"

[LateBloomer]

My Unicorn and Strad-o-lin. I love the differences in the f-holes!

[Dane Brunson]

My Eastman 515

[Mark Gibbs]

I do like the Artsy stuff. There is more to this photo but i cropped it to feature the mando.

[Mark Gibbs]

This Schneider Mandolin belongs to a friend of mine. I did the photography and effects. Photography is a hobby/business of mine and to see more go to www.photomark1.smugmug.com

[D18dave]

If I remember from art class, this might be considdered 'Monochromatic'

[bgjunkie]

Not really "Artsy", but it won 2nd Place in the Wilson County Fair in Tennessee.

[Randy King]

Getting A Little Sun!

[ChrisStewart]

Here is one which I probably have already posted

[JEStanek]

Looks almost like a sporin on a kilt.

Jamie

[lmartnla]

I really like that Lyon & Healey, and the quilted F4 back.

Steve B.: Nice picture against the tree trunk, but what is that curled below the base of the mandolin? is it a tail?

My picture resulted from attempts to show the color in my Phoenix inlay:

---Lou

[Ben Milne]

got a new toy to bash on while i hotrod my bird..
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/enginearing/100_2552.jpg

[Kerry Krishna]

Here are a few shots inspired by the Flatpicking Guitar cover of about 6 months ago. This is my Collings D2H and my '87 Monteleone Grand Artist, and a triangle Tortiseshell pick modeled after the one Tony Rice gave me in '89...

[somanyrhodes]

My Custom Yellowstone.

[JeffD]

From planet mando

[Greg Potter]

A Sam Bush model I used to have.

[Darren Bailey]

Had I have looked at some of these pictures before i put that little slide show together a lot of these pictures would have gone in - just great images, thanks for sharing them.

[D C Blood]

My '96 Silver Eagle (Angel) Cynthia

[Aran]

Not so artsy really... Couldn't find the one I was looking for but stumbled upon this one... Thought it was cute...:)

As they say: "The apple doesn't fall to far from the tree"

[chasray]

Not so artsy really... Couldn't find the one I was looking for but stumbled upon this one... Thought it was cute...:)

As they say: "The apple doesn't fall to far from the tree"

I notice she is not holding your Weber Bitterroot!

[Aran]

Chasray! NOPE!!!:grin:

That's Jessie's mando and very kindly she lets dad take it away as a beater sometimes....

[Steve Cantrell]

Just playing around with the Macro function on my new Fuji S1500 and thought I would add this image of my Poe F5.

[abuteague]

http://people.williams.edu/tmurphy/files/2010/04/banner.jpg

There. Art. :)

[randygwatkins]

Stanley #5 with a sterling silver pick (Christmas gift from friends) :)

[Merritt]

Posted this about 2 months ago or so. Still love it....

Hey Dave - That is one of my favorite mandolin photos ever. Is that your red mandolin in the shot?

[Dave Gumbart]

Merritt - glad you like the photo. I took a number of photos that day with my mando (made by Andrew Mowry), and that one stood out to me. The mando's color was inspired by another customer of Andrew's, who sent him a chestnut as an example of what he was looking for. That mando was posted by Andrew on the "mandolins in progress" thread when it was completed a number of years ago, and I thought it was stunning. So, a similar version made it my way not too long after that. Cheers.

[rf37]

Relaxin at home
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=57537&thumb=1&d=1271924996

[Steve Cantrell]

I just had two photos I made printed for my living room. One is my Poe F-5 and the other is my wife's Martin. We had a good time playing around with getting the pictures, so it was worth the time.

[Pat Healey]

This picture was one that my 14 year-old daughter took for a 4-H project.

[JEStanek]

This picture was one that my 14 year-old daughter took for a 4-H project.

Nice shot.

Jamie

[SHORTY]

Cooper you gave me a good laugh. Thanks

[ShannonSunshine]

Here's mine... :)

http://waveoverwhitesands.com/images/mandolincafe/mando6.jpg

[Chaconnne]

Here is a painting I recently finished of my Eastman mandolin.

[JEStanek]

Gabriel, Cool painting and welcome to the Café.

Jamie

[Perry Babasin]

OK, people are posting to this thread again, and I have an artsy picture of my mandolin... Here she is posing next to my Dad's legendary German Flatback Bass...http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4683481934_49f51d3b68.jpg