View Full Version : Blacktop going to cafe member
Keith Newell
Jan-05-2012, 9:35pm
Here is the completed blacktop oval archtop/back going to one of our members.
Keith
Ed Goist
Jan-05-2012, 9:41pm
Keith; Gorgeous! Very classy.
Congratulations to the new owner!
sunburst
Jan-05-2012, 9:44pm
Nice!!
How did you do the black color?
(I have a similar one in the works, BTW. Looking forward to finishing it.)
Kip Carter
Jan-05-2012, 10:06pm
Very nice!! Next one in Kelly Green?
Kip...
Keith Newell
Jan-05-2012, 10:16pm
It's all stain under varnish.
keith
Brett Byers
Jan-05-2012, 10:38pm
love that tailpiece!
GKWilson
Jan-05-2012, 11:04pm
Wow. I'm not usually a blacktop kinda guy. But, that's one good lookin' mandolin Keith.
Steve Sorensen
Jan-05-2012, 11:08pm
Beautiful ! ! !
Jeffff
Jan-05-2012, 11:09pm
That is just beautiful.
Very very nice - congratulations to Keith and it's new owner!
mandolirius
Jan-06-2012, 5:32am
love that tailpiece!
Me too.
trevor
Jan-06-2012, 6:17am
I'm great lover of the blacktop. That's a beauty.
Jim Garber
Jan-06-2012, 8:07am
Keith: is this a hybrid oval? What kind of bracing does it have?
BradKlein
Jan-06-2012, 8:27am
Lovely!
I am also wondering about the challenges in having an round-hole top with the long neck of an ff hole mandolin. That moves the bridge up toward the neck block, and I assume that is the logic of making the hole oval instead of circular - keeps more spruce between the bridge and the sound hole. Do makers brace differently than they would with a Gibson style A-model neck, which is three frets shorter?
JEStanek
Jan-06-2012, 8:37am
Very well executed. I would like to see a photo of the top out in the sun to see if the black is opaque or if the wood grain shines through. I'm sure the new owner will be happy!
Jamie
Randi Gormley
Jan-06-2012, 8:50am
wow.
Keith Newell
Jan-06-2012, 8:57am
Yes the top is opaque. It's X bracing, plate thickness, body shape etc. are my take on the oval hole, it's mandolin not gibson :)
Thanks all,
Keith
Keith Newell
Jan-07-2012, 1:33am
To answer a private messege I make and design all my tailpieces. They are from 304 stainless steel and are about 4 times thicker than the stamped normal mando tailpieces you get when you buy a $300 to $3800 (or more) mandolin.
Keith
Keith Newell
Jan-07-2012, 1:35am
Lets call it good ol USA practices. Give the consumer much more than they thought they wanted but now know that this is what they really wanted.
keith
John Gardinsky
Jan-07-2012, 5:44am
Nice work Keith, that's a beauty.
Doug Edwards
Jan-07-2012, 8:27am
Lets call it good ol USA practices. Give the consumer much more than they thought they wanted but now know that this is what they really wanted.
keith
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Really nice mandolin.
Marcelyn
Jan-07-2012, 2:19pm
I'm dying to know who got this lovely mandolin. I'm so incredibly happy with my carved-top oval from Keith. Congratulations, it's sure to sound as nice as it looks.
Bill Van Liere
Jan-07-2012, 10:06pm
That is a really cool looking piece Keith. Has a bit of a Stephen Owsley Smith look to it.
terzinator
Jan-09-2012, 4:54pm
super sexy
Pete Jenner
Jan-09-2012, 10:14pm
Keith,
You do beautiful work.
Do you ever FP your mandos?
Cheers,
Peter
Keith Newell
Jan-10-2012, 5:09pm
I have done a few Peter but don't really offer it as an option right now.
Keith
Pete Jenner
Jan-10-2012, 9:10pm
I can understand that - It's very time consuming.
Jeffff
Jan-10-2012, 10:54pm
I searched for it but nothing came up so........ FP?
Bill Snyder
Jan-10-2012, 11:04pm
French polish.
Jeffff
Jan-10-2012, 11:06pm
Ahhhh Thank you.
Markkunkel
Jan-12-2012, 5:28pm
and, here it is:
http://youtu.be/6BuD_4OHglQ
THANKS, Keith! Wish I could play as well as you build, but you know, time...
Mark
Jeffff
Jan-12-2012, 5:35pm
I want one.
Paul Edwards
Jan-12-2012, 5:51pm
beautiful.
Marcelyn
Jan-14-2012, 8:28pm
It sounds wonderful, Mark. Cool choice in theme too.
Tim Griffin
Jan-21-2012, 5:31pm
That is a really cool looking piece Keith. Has a bit of a Stephen Owsley Smith look to it.
But nicer IMHO.
Jim Garber
Sep-12-2012, 3:02pm
Wow! Someone got an amazing deal (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180967308696) on this mandolin. Anyone here win it?
Grommet
Sep-12-2012, 4:42pm
Glad you bumped this thread Jim. I hadn't seen the sound clip above. Asthetically stunning, and fantastic tone. The E-Bsy auction winner is probably as shocked as we are. Gone for a song!
Scott
Doghearty
Sep-12-2012, 6:15pm
Wow! Someone got an amazing deal (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180967308696) on this mandolin. Anyone here win it?
I bid on it, initially because I was unwilling to see it sold for cheap. As late as last night bids were still under $400. I placed a bid late in the auction, and won!, for much less than my max bid. I don't know how it came to this, but the instrument will always be owned by a player who values it, if I have anything to say about it.
Charles E.
Sep-12-2012, 6:17pm
Wow, I wonder why Mark let it go so soon and for so little?
Doghearty, congrats on a beautiful mandolin! I hope we get to hear the rest of the story.
Clement Barrera-Ng
Sep-12-2012, 8:17pm
I was watching it last week but forgot to check in today before the end. It went for less than I had expected - congrats to doghearty for winning such a fantastic instrument.
Doghearty
Sep-13-2012, 7:06am
Apparently, the person who put it on Ebay was not Mark. Mark messaged me privately and said (essentially) that he has gone on to other instruments. A serious case of MAS, I think.
:mandosmiley:
JEStanek
Sep-13-2012, 7:38am
Congrats. That may be the best buy of the year!
Jamie
Markkunkel
Sep-19-2012, 2:05pm
Hi there, and congratulations on such a deal! I would certainly have it back at that price. No MAS here...I have at present only one mando (a gorgeous Kimble, #22http://www.mandomusic.com/kimbleinstruments/kimble1to50.html f-hole), with a couple of octaves/citterns and a couple of guitars. That's a VERY nice Newell mando, and congrats again.
MK