View Full Version : Looking for a Waverly Cloud tailpiece?
MikeEdgerton
Sep-08-2013, 1:47pm
You can thank me later.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Kay-Mandolin-A-Style-Kluson-Single-line-Case-Cool-Old-Vintage-Old-CLEAN-/190898173288?pt=Guitar&hash=item2c726af568
barney 59
Sep-08-2013, 7:42pm
Yep, That's where you find them!
bratsche
Sep-08-2013, 8:36pm
With a free instrument thrown in! Over $100 shipped (unless it goes for a low bid), 15 watchers, and 5 people viewing it per hour. Are they all interested in doing the "project", or getting the tailpiece?
bratsche
MikeEdgerton
Sep-09-2013, 6:53am
I'd do the Buy it now, take off the tailpiece and put the carcass back up for 75.00 BIN.
I certainly would buy it if I wanted to restore another mando right now. The experience of buying it for parts: $30 for tailpiece plus roughly $20 for tuners $2 for pick guard $5 for bridge and the rest for a rebuildable mando or spare wooden parts can be a bargain in my opinion. The tailpiece would cinch it for me.
MikeEdgerton
Sep-09-2013, 11:20am
Just to put it out there, if you're getting entire cloud tailpieces at $30.00 you're getting a steal. I've never sold one for less than $75.00 and I've sold a bunch.
bratsche
Sep-09-2013, 12:44pm
Well here's one for $75 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/251333155278) shipped, an engraved tailpiece even, with free bowlback thrown in. Really great, especially if your name happens to be Adams!
bratsche
Eddie Sheehy
Sep-11-2013, 12:13pm
Those tuners are Kluson's...
MikeEdgerton
Sep-11-2013, 12:56pm
Yes, but the buttons are shrunk. That's the way to get replacement Kluson's as well.
Eddie Sheehy
Sep-11-2013, 1:29pm
All the Klusons I've seen on these mandos all appear to have shrunk buttons - I've pickup up two sets like that...
MikeEdgerton
Sep-11-2013, 2:57pm
There was apparently a bad batch of buttons used in the late 40's through the 50's that were made with plastic that shrinks. It's a known problem and one way to help date an instrument that is affected. Every now and then you'll find one that is good. I have a feeling it's associated with a lack of ventilation and heat. I had two pristine sets that I put in plastic bags in drawers in my garage. A few years later I went to use one and found that the buttons had shrunk.
Frank Ford has some information about it here (http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/Technique/Tuners/NewButton/newbutton.html).