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Thanks, that was fun. Two of the members are friends and are great fun to play music with.

I don't feel my mandolins have a gender, they are mandolins and I call them by name, the Brentrup, the Unicorn, the Gibson, etc.

Thornward was a brand made for Montgomery Wards, by Lyon and Healy. I have a very nice guitar that is a Thornward. Mine is somewhere around the 1900's-1910's.

I have had one F style mandolin after a few A styles. I prefer A style mandolins and it's all I have, be it ff hole or oval hole. I have both.

I take the mandolin I like playing everywhere. Does it show, yes. I play gigs in hot humid weather and the varnish finish shows it's wear. The finish is worn off the neck along with most of the...

I have a rounded, nice C shape that I love, I also have a V shape that I play daily. I think you can get used to whatever you spend time on. Some love the V shape, some don't. I find both...

I too miss the guitar classifieds, maybe it could only be by individuals and not dealers.

I have a clip on Peterson for the bench, but use the Unitune for everything else. It's very accurate, right up there with the Peterson, and gets about 4-5 times the battery life. I have one I keep on...

If you save those balls you can then put them into loop end strings when you need a ball end sting, as the OP does.

I also played the BC for years, but thought they were too dark sounding for me. I liked the glide thru the strings. I went to Wegen, I even have them made thinner, and love the sound. They do wear...

White scotch brite will do the same thing with less mess.

Looks like it's been played a bunch. I like that. If you have a dental mirror look inside, you will easily be able to tell if it is X braced.

The Fishman input is set for a transducer without a preamp, so plugging into that will give you a different sound than plugging into the PA. If you want to get used to your preamp, so it is easy for...

Some folks 2k purchase is probably harder to come by that money, than someone else's 10k purchase. Even at 2k I would want to hear and play the instrument. If it wasn't the sound I wasn't looking for...

I, same as Pittsburgh Bill, have bought several instruments from the classifieds here with no problem and have not sent one back. A trial period is a must for buying something you can't play in...

It looks like it should be moved to the left. The bass strings are angling much more than the treble strings, and could pull the bridge off center. You can see they are more to the treble side of the...

Why is it that those folks that are trying to sell a mandolin, and producing a video, only play hot licks and chords. I would like to hear the individual strings one at a time. It would only take a...

Just played a gig last night with an old friend. He has an extremely hard time walking, and lives up a hill. He leaves all his instruments in his car, all the time. We live in the Midwest and last...

I find the better I know the material the lighter I can play. It' like I breeze thru it. If I am learning it on the fly I tend to play harder. Also if you lighten up your fretting hand it will help...

If you do this don't open the case when you get home, 24 hours is the typical warm up time. Especially if it is in the case wrapped in a blanket or sleeping bag. Two hours in a car would not be...

Not far, as there was not enough interest for the minimum amount of cases that I would have to order.

Sometimes I will put the leather under the strings at the very end of the tailpiece. Since I only change one string at a time I don't have to worry about it, it works well there too.

A piece of leather or felt under the tailpiece cover will stop the ringing and be invisible, also won't fall off when you change strings. I have had it on my mandolins for decades.

I have a one footed bridge on my mandolin with two tone bars and it sounds better than the two footed bridge it came with. It will also help if you have belling in the center of the top.

Well the good news is the piece that is broken isn't really needed, it will play fine without it. It will also be easier to change strings without it.