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300win
Mar-02-2010, 5:51pm
Just visited Jackson's music in Winston Salem, N.C. this afternoon. They are a Gibson dealer. Never noticed this before but was looking at the mandolins in the case they have them in, full frontal view so its easy to see. I noticed the Doyle Lawson F-5, and the Goldrush F-5 have f holes that are obviously smaller/ narrower than the other Gibson F-5 models. Any of the rest of ya'll noticed this ?, allright that was probably a dumb question as I'm sure you have. My thinking on why they did this maybe has to do with giving these two models a little differant tone ? Any ideas ? Big Joe would know. read in one post that the Lawson F tone bars were placed a little differant than norm, could it be that I'm right on this ?

MikeEdgerton
Mar-02-2010, 7:39pm
It's been discussed a few times here, I'll see if I can find the discussions.

MikeEdgerton
Mar-02-2010, 7:45pm
One thread (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27755)
Another thread (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10054)

I'm sure there are more.