View Full Version : Some new Mowrys, including #50
amowry
May-13-2009, 3:12pm
I guess 50 is a minor milestone, but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling nonetheless. It's the blacktop one, headed for the UK. Thanks for looking!
Edited by JEStanek to fix thread title.
amowry
May-13-2009, 3:15pm
A few more...
JEStanek
May-13-2009, 3:24pm
Wow, that's some nice looking work, Andrew.
Jamie
Chris Keth
May-13-2009, 3:32pm
I'm really lusting after the blonds in the second post. ;)
Bruce Clausen
May-13-2009, 3:45pm
Gorgeous work as always, Andrew! Thanks for posting these. Fifty-- wow! Number 10 is still turning heads (and ears).
Bruce
Skip Kelley
May-13-2009, 4:35pm
Andrew, those are awesome! They are the finest mandolins I have ever seen!
Dfyngravity
May-13-2009, 5:03pm
Oh my BIRDS EYE goodness. Those are all just incredible! And that birds eye back is mighty tasty looking. I know there are going to be some very very happy mandolinist soon.
Keep up the great work and I can't wait to see the next 50+
John Rosett
May-13-2009, 5:08pm
I really like the black top A, especially the peghead.
Glassweb
May-13-2009, 5:36pm
great looking work... love the blonde F4 style and the peghead of the blacktop... if they sound as good as they look you'll have a long and healthy career... best of luck to ya!
Austin Clark
May-13-2009, 6:02pm
They look great, Andrew. I love the rosette on the oval hole!
Jim Roberts
May-13-2009, 6:13pm
Amazing (as usual!) Andrew...and I am sure they sound off the charts great, too.
For those of you who haven't played one of Andrews mandolins, they are fantastic and the craftsmanship is as close to perfect as can be.
papawhisky
May-13-2009, 6:14pm
Incredible work Andrew! The peghead on #50 has a very cool pre art deco kind of look. I really like it.
I'd be jealous except that I get to play #40 everyday!! Thanks for making the world a better place, one mandolin at a time!
Chris Biorkman
May-13-2009, 6:46pm
Holy cow! Those are perfection.
Steve-o
May-13-2009, 8:14pm
Andrew,
Wow, incredible workmanship and artistic beauty in those mandos. I too love the headstocks. Congrats on the #50 milestone!
Amandalyn
May-13-2009, 8:35pm
Love the art- deco headstocks. What was the inspiration for
those designs? Looks like some jewelry designs I was looking at art-deco for my Poe headstock.
oh gawd, that black top is just exquisite. i am in lust.
Brad Weiss
May-13-2009, 9:36pm
Hmmm... I think I recognize that blacktop one. What WAS the inspiration for the headstock?!?
;)
Well done!! 50 is a nice round, impressive number!
mandomania7923
May-13-2009, 9:39pm
What kind of tailpiece is on the blonde A5?
amowry
May-13-2009, 10:11pm
Thanks folks! Brad and I originally designed the headstock for his mandolin (which I built a few years ago) using the Bill James "Lewis" (Michael Lewis) style tailpiece as a guide. He and I also designed the inlay that's on that blonde A5. I believe I loosly modelled it after an old stained-glass art deco window I found on the web. The new blacktop is pretty much the same as Brad's except for the new inlay. That inlay was designed by the owner-to-be, using the soundholes as inspiration. I'll let him take credit should he so desire.
Joe Dodson
May-13-2009, 11:11pm
Beautiful work Andrew! That vine headstock looks familiar. No. 41 is headed out to a bluegrass festival with me this weekend.
Best,
Joe
Bill Halsey
May-13-2009, 11:49pm
At that quality level, I'd be very happy with 50. Good enough to eat!
trevor
May-14-2009, 2:13am
# 50 is coming my way. The headstock design was by me but inspired by the sound holes and some designs Andrew sent me. I will report back when its here, its in the post so may be a while (I currently have one mandolin that's been held by customs for 10 days!).
Skip Kelley
May-14-2009, 6:25am
Andrew, Nice thumbs up reflection in the black top! Pretty cool!!
Scotti Adams
May-14-2009, 8:17am
Very nice indeedy
Mark Walker
May-18-2009, 12:27pm
Since the consensus seems to be #50 is perfection, how will you improve upon perfection? :)
Outstanding work Andy, and congrats on refining and perfecting your craft!
Chris Keth
May-18-2009, 8:00pm
Since the consensus seems to be #50 is perfection, how will you improve upon perfection? :)
Outstanding work Andy, and congrats on refining and perfecting your craft!
Alexander Calder (sculptor, invented the mobile type of sculpture) wrote, "To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
Cary Fagan
May-20-2009, 9:31am
Congratulations on number 50, Andrew. All that dedication to the art and craft is something to celebrate. The new instruments are beautiful.
trevor
May-22-2009, 11:16am
It is perfection... more news when I've put it down.
Joe Dodson
May-22-2009, 11:51am
I can't get over the back on no. 50. It looks like it's 3D. Andrew - is that big leaf maple? It's like a cross between quilted and flamed figuring. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it.
amowry
May-22-2009, 2:11pm
Thanks folks! Ya, that's bigleaf, Joe. I see that linear quilt pattern occasionally, and often you see quilt transition into curly figure.