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Earlier today I spent the morning at one of my favorite music stores, in the vintage room. You should hear pig ankle rag, played a 1912 Gibson F-2 mandolin. Wow it was great.
I should have written down the serial number, but it starts with a 12. Beautiful black finish, great condition, all original stuff as far as I could tell. The tuning pegs had that fancy inlay on them.
The whole thing was yummy. And very loud.
The price was more than I can justify for a mandolin right now, but hey, things can and often do change.
Dave Reiner
Apr-05-2008, 9:28pm
You're right! I just tried Pig Ankle Rag on a 1912 F2, and it does sound great http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Is this the same one listed on eB**, from a store in Virginia?
Dave
JeffD
Apr-05-2008, 10:11pm
You're right! #I just tried Pig Ankle Rag on a 1912 F2, and it does sound great http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Is this the same one listed on eB**, from a store in Virginia? #
Dave
Yes that is the one.
Dave Reiner
Apr-05-2008, 11:21pm
You're right! I just tried Pig Ankle Rag on a 1912 F2, and it does sound great http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Is this the same one listed on eB**, from a store in Virginia?
Dave
Yes that is the one.
Do you have any further comments on condition? There are no photos of the peghead at all, and they say the tailpiece is not original...
Regards,
Dave
I noticed the tail piece too.
I didn't look extremely closely but I did not notice any issues what so ever. I mean you can tell its not brand new, but there are no obvious issues.
If you know the store, you know the little vintage room I played it in. Man, that F2 was loud. Sound just bouncing off the walls back in my face.
Who ever gets that mandolin gets a real nice player. I just hope its not some moop who keeps it in case under the bed to trade up later for an F5.
Red Henry
Apr-13-2008, 12:11pm
John Hedgecoth's got one of these, and it's a great player. Gibson was already making real fine mandolins as they evolved in 1907-12, before the design stabilized for a while.
Red