Historic Ultra

  1. Rolfe
    Rolfe
    Take a look at the historic Ultra in the Cafe classifieds.
  2. Greg Sheik
    Greg Sheik
    Rolfe - How did you come to build a Novax scale instrument? Did you uncover any nuances or anything unusual during the build? What are your daughter's thoughts about the instrument? Greg
  3. Rolfe
    Rolfe
    Hi Greg,
    At the time I was starting to build the Phoenix mandolins, after almost ten years of not building, I wanted to come back with all the technical improvements that had developed over the last decade; the Novax system was one of them. I thought that the A strings were just right, Es needed a little more brightness, Ds and Gs could use more bass, so that's what Ralph Novak worked out for my fingerboards. I thought it was an improvement, but the market likes straight frets. Elderly sold one; my daughter and my mandolin teacher got the other two. She is a talented musician but hasn't been playing much and doesn't have anything to compare it to, so she will be happy enough when I build her another, regular fretted, instrument further down the road. Thanks for asking.
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