Like many other of the design changes that occurred at Gibson in that early period, the phasing out of the cam-style pickguard clamp in favor of the...
When I first moved here in 1981, the few Latin-Americans who lived here were mostly Cuban ex-patriots. Some of them were released prisoners from the...
Well, if no one else contributes, one of my former students has a Trinity College that he could measure.
And Walter Carter just listed a Sobell, and...
My old Regal Octofone is the only octave mandolin I've spent any significant time with. The fingerboard is 1 3/8" at the nut, and 1 5/8" at the 12th...
Phil, if you have any lingering doubts, go to Ace Hardware and buy their little 6" metal rule which is graduated in 64ths of an inch. It costs about...
The neck angle was changed, but several years earlier-- the earliest 2-pointers, introduced in 1910, had the same angle as mandolins made in the late...
I operated in my shop for quite a few years with no power tools at all except for a Dremel with a home-made router base, an electric hand drill and a...
Retired Music Professor, mostly choral and educational theory. Started playing mandocello in Oregon Mandolin Orchestra in 2015. Gibson K4 mandocello, Stiver F style mandolin, Martin000 Guitar.
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