View Full Version : c.1925 Regal?-made all-mahogany flatback mandolin (a looker!!)
Jake Wildwood
Jan-28-2011, 5:37pm
Just finished this nice little number up!
More info by following this link (http://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2011/01/c1925-regal-mahogany-flatback-mandolin.html).
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MikeEdgerton
Jan-28-2011, 6:48pm
Are you sure it's not Koa?
Jim Garber
Jan-28-2011, 8:25pm
it doesn't look like koa to me -- more like mahogany. I have a few all mahogany flatbacks pictured in Tonk and Wurlitzer catalogs but none have exactly that pickguard.
Jake Wildwood
Jan-28-2011, 8:43pm
Not koa... the grain is too even throughout for that. There are a number of different mahoganies, some that look more like koa and some that look more like the "modern" hog we're used to... I can't remember off the top of my head which ones are which but a lot of Regal ukes made in the 1920s had curly Cuban mahogany that looked an awful lot like koa but just wasn't quite the same stuff.
brunello97
Jan-28-2011, 8:47pm
Regal, Schmegal. When are we going to hear about that Stewart/Martin that you scored, Jake?
Mick
Champlin
Jan-28-2011, 8:50pm
Sure does look sweet. I'll bet it sounds sweet too.
Jill McAuley
Jan-28-2011, 10:33pm
Another gorgeous resurrection there Jake!
Cheers,
Jill
F-2 Dave
Jan-28-2011, 11:20pm
The color scheme really works with the dark mahogany and that tortise celluloid pickguard. A beauty for sure.
JEStanek
Jan-29-2011, 8:27am
Great work again, Jake.
Jamie
Jake Wildwood
Jan-29-2011, 10:05am
Regal, Schmegal. When are we going to hear about that Stewart/Martin that you scored, Jake?
Mick
Mick -- pretty soon! I just have to put the fretboard back on!
Jason Kessler
Jan-30-2011, 2:32pm
VERY pretty axe.