celtic style mandolin

[francesco de gregorio]

hi, my name is Francesco De Gregorio from Italy and this is my new mandolin i had built in march.
i want to know your opinion about this instruments because in italy there arent much interesting on this tipe of mandolins,only napolitan and roman doing well..
but here is another life..
lets see the instrument!
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and this is a little video made whit a camera of the mandolin play by me,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPa0v1YK5-0
every critique are accept,thank you
and sorry for my bad english

[Shelagh Moore]

Hi Francesco and welcome to the Mandolin Cafe. That's a nice instrument with a good clear "celtic" sound and well played too.

Cheers from Richard in Scotland

[Bertram Henze]

Funny idea with the heart in the headstock - reminds me of the old German custom to have a heart cut out of the doors of outdoor toilets ;)
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[francesco de gregorio]

yes is my too creative talent , push me to do this risky choices...:whistling:
I try to stop but it's stronger than me...without this particular (the heart on the heads or the inlays or the unusual rosette ecc.) i don't feel my the instrument...
now i've got a classical guitar under construction,
for save time i used a prefabbricated rosette and now every time i saw that i would like to remove..but the instrument is now assembly and it is impossible to remove without risk...i know this is only a mental problem but i really love and trust in this work...:(
I dont say in the first post that the mandolin is built based on the book write by Graham mcDonald "the mandolin progect".
i saw that Graham is registered on this site and i take advantage to congratulates to him for the great book, thank you Mr Graham, i am a student of the luthier school of Milano but the day you went to visit the school, i had a problem and i can't saw you.
i would like to know what do you think about my interpretation of your progect.
best regards
Francesco De Gregorio

[wildpikr]

That's a nice looking mandolin with a good sound.

Welcome to the cafe Francesco.~o)

[Randi Gormley]

That's a beautiful mando. nice job!

[Phil Goodson]

Very nice mando & good music.
Welcome.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Nice work. Nice tone and good looks, and I epsecially love the neck stripe and matching back inlay -- and the asymetrical neck heel was a nice touch.

[billhay4]

Nice job!
Bill

[Graham McDonald]

Hello Francesco,

I thought the design looked familiar. It looks and sounds delightful. Well done and please be as creative with the ideas in the book as you wish. I am glad it was useful to you. Please send my regards to Lorenzo and the rest of the staff who were very kind and generous with their time as well as Mattia whose translating made it all possible.

cheers

graham

[Jill McAuley]

Lovely looking and sounding mandolin - well done to you!

Cheers,
Jill

[Jake Wildwood]

Great instrument!

My only suggestion is to indulge yourself and upgrade the hardware. This mandolin deserves it! :)

[jim_n_virginia]

WOW! NICE!!! Thanks for posting the picture!

[francesco de gregorio]

Hi ! thanks to all for the compliments,
is a pleasure for me to know that you like my instruments, he thanks you:-)
for Graham,of course bring your greetings and thanks to Lorenzo and Mattia!I'm sure that they will be very happy to know that!
Mattia grapples with the construction of a f5, and is doing a great job, is a talent!
I hope we can meet in future!
Greetings to all from Italy

Francesco De Gregorio

[francesco de gregorio]

here are the different twins;)
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not a good couple?

Bye
Francesco

[francesco de gregorio]

is almost finished
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i hope you like;)
bye
Francesco De Gregorio

[Caleb]

Beautiful. I love to see people thinking outside the box.

[francesco de gregorio]

thank's Caleb :cool:

[JEStanek]

Very nice design elements. They sound nice too. Welcome to the Café!

Jamie

[toddjoles]

Funny idea with the heart in the headstock - reminds me of the old German custom to have a heart cut out of the doors of outdoor toilets ;)
http://gartengefluester.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/herztur.jpg

I've seen a few very old banjos that had a moon and stars motiff inlayed on the headstock. You would find a cutout moon on the door of a mens outhouse and a star on the womens. LOL! I guess you could say that was the first banjo joke!

[JEStanek]

You see hearts and hummingbirds as sound holes on lap dulcimers as well.

Jamie

[francesco de gregorio]

Items for sale should be listed and priced in the Cafe Classifieds.

[francesco de gregorio]

finished
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goodnight

[Ed Goist]

Beautiful work Francesco! Is the saddle bone?

[francesco de gregorio]

thank's Ed,
yes the saddle is made of bone and ebony base.

[pickloser]

Very lovely work, Francesco. You are a talented man.

[Bob DeVellis]

Very nice!

[francesco de gregorio]

thank's!