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I wonder if D'Addario or Thomastik make ammunition for it.

That's pretty much as definitive as you can get. Thank you both for weighing in.

Ryan is making new Webers -- I bought one from the Mandolin Store at the very end of last year. It's a red rocks model with a cedar top and it's an outstanding mandolin with great depth. I highly...

Greeting all! Weber instruments were built in Montana from its start in 1997 to 2012 and then in Bend Oregon from 2012 to present. No imports were ever created under the Weber name. Really...

There have never been any Weber instruments or protypes manufactured overseas.

Until this is proven I'm calling the opening statement categorically false. The burden of proof should be on the the owner of the opening post. This is a long time and a lot of water under the...

I'm kind of old, too, but am not yet an intermediate player.

I figure that unless you've got a heckava ear and an outstanding talent for pattern recognition, if you want to learn to improvise, or...

I have taken both courses, and they are both good. I slightly prefer Sierra’s course for the reason you are apprehensive; some music theory. Learning about chord structure and arpeggios probably...

There's enough to be "concerned and alarmed" about in the world without being bothered by what people call their pieces of wood with some wires attached to them.

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I bought a leather strap from Northfield around 5 years ago. I absolutely love it! It's gotten super soft over the years. I wanted to get a couple more for my A3 & dola but they show "out of stock"...

I have a pair of Breedloves: Legacy FF and Quartz FF. Both were made in Bend, OR, before Breedlove moved their mandolin manufacture to China. I bought both from Dennis Vance at the Mandolin Store...

Years ago I had a Breedlove OO that I loved. Traded it in for a Collings MT-O. I’ve had 4 MT-O’s since then, liked everyone of them so much that I decided to stop playing the catch and release game...

The thing with a lot of these other builders is that the prices being asked are so close to what I could get a nice Gibson F-5 for, with the exception of something like, say a Weber or a Gilchrist, I...

Probably a good choice, Bruce should know the construction well.

Hi all: Thanks for all of the suggestions. I've decided to go with Bruce Weber. Looks like the Gibson will get a new top.

When I started working as the engineer for Gibson/Flatiron in 1995, in Belgrade, MT, Gibson had the majority of the domestic mandolin manufacturing and sales market. I believe it was something over...

Hi Bren, I was reading and about to say 'you didn;t tell me about your Gilchrist' until I kept on reading. I too had a mandolin built by Marshall Dow. I was sitting in my office around 1990 I think...

I sure they are using an algorithm to do that. The same happens on Reverb when you watch an item

Baby boomers were hitting the 45-55 year old range, peak earnings for many, their kids were grown etc so they had more disposable cash.
I wonder if Harley Davidson sales went up then too?

In 1998...

REM had a couple of hits with prominent mandolin earlier in the 90s, also in the UK we had the Waterboys and the Levellers who definitely influenced some peers of mine (as a 90s teenager) to pick up...

As I continue to cogitate on it. There was also a gap in the market for domestic instruments with Gibson's acquisition of Flatiron. You basically had a choice of a Gibson product, an import, or a...

Consider a call to Bruce Weber in Montana.
Montanalutherie.com, I think is their website.

I wonder if Jerry's death in '95 pushed interest in his side projects in the subsequent years. There was also the "acoustic boom" after the MTV Unplugged performances of Clapton and Nirvana, I...

I think there probably was an uptick in demand. As a bit of a deadhead in my early to mid 20s at the time, it seemed like lots of people around me were discovering the Jerry and Dawg collaborations...

Collings ovals like heavier A and E strings if you want stronger treble. I personally like GHS Pure Nickel and Monels from various makers. The wound strings in those sets brings out the dry, woody...