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This is the second combination of #German/bigleaf maple. Makes for a very rich, dark tone. Here's the front...
Snake peghead. Bruce wanted tortoise binding and ebony buttons...
Three quarter side view...
Bigleaf back and again, the window panes...we're having the curtains dry cleaned. # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
bradeinhorn
Sep-26-2007, 5:38pm
very nice...is it sitting on the uffizi?
Eh, no it's sitting on it's end pin. # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
bradeinhorn
Sep-26-2007, 5:51pm
har har har....fitting for the golden age of mandolin building.
Spruce
Sep-26-2007, 5:52pm
"Bruce wanted tortoise binding and ebony buttons... "
Did I order up a mandolin one moonshiney IBMA evening a few years ago??
There is this vague memory..... # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Wrong Bruce! Not Lenny either... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Spruce
Sep-26-2007, 7:50pm
Whew.... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Dan Voight
Sep-26-2007, 8:09pm
Very classy combonations of color/binding. Good work, as usual.
Don Grieser
Sep-26-2007, 8:57pm
Is it too late to change my name to Bruce?
jasona
Sep-26-2007, 9:29pm
Don's too hard to remember. We'll call you Bruce!
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Steve Davis
Sep-26-2007, 10:28pm
Very nice yet again. Please let me know when you have a "Poor Man's Brentrup!" http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Mark Walker
Sep-27-2007, 8:55am
Hans,
Beautiful work - as usual. #Top shelf again from stem to stern! #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
(You're on my list of builders in the Just for fun - what if you won the lotto (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=12;t=47247) post!)
Bill Van Liere
Sep-27-2007, 9:11am
The more I watch you build the happier I am that I own one of your wonderful creations Hans. Stunning A model
Skip Kelley
Sep-27-2007, 9:48am
Hans, that is one beautiful mandolin! Perfect in every way!!!
Jim Roberts
Sep-27-2007, 10:44am
This is the second combination of #German/bigleaf maple. Makes for a very rich, dark tone.
I think this was the first Brentrup combination of German/Bigleaf maple. #It's a beauty both tonally and visually (and is for sale BTW).
Hans' work is first class...
Jim Roberts
Sep-27-2007, 10:46am
...and here's the back.
bgmando
Sep-27-2007, 3:29pm
Boy I really love that mandolin's looks and wish I could hear it played. I find myself thinking more of A models these days.
Michael Lewis
Sep-28-2007, 12:47am
Beautiful, Hans. That back looks like a kettle of hot coals.
Thanks folks! Michael, I sure will miss you at IBMA...
Michael Lewis
Sep-28-2007, 11:53pm
Hans, I will miss you and Maureen too. Too much on my plate to do it all. Between now and January I will be making the shavings fly, then the NAMM show in January, and than back to work in the shop until late May when the "events" really begin for the summer.
Keep an eye or ear out for a couple of my mandolins that will be there. Scott Gates and Thomas Kingsley will have to suffice as my representatives. Young whippersnappers though they are, they are pretty good pickers.
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Big Joe
Sep-29-2007, 8:49am
Hans...you continue to amaze me! While I generally don't prefer big leaf Maple, it could be tempting after seeing this one!
It will be sad having both Michael and Dale gone from IBMA this year. You will both be missed.
B. T. Walker
Sep-30-2007, 9:07pm
I am really partial to a-body mandos, and this one is breathtaking. Wow!
Thanks Joe and all! While I don't normally use bigleaf, it works for the player that wants a complex, dark sounding instrument with Italian or German spruce.
Dale, going to miss ya at IBMA. Joe, see ya Friday or Saturday.