Hey Ed -
"AVOID, which I did for 40 years!" Me too! Then I started teaching and had to try to discuss what we were trying to do, realized that a certain amount of vocabulary is required. Started...
Hey Ed -
"AVOID, which I did for 40 years!" Me too! Then I started teaching and had to try to discuss what we were trying to do, realized that a certain amount of vocabulary is required. Started...
This is what happens during social isolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYYgPGmx1M
We have a builder database on MC, perhaps a Skype lesson provider database?
I checked a Pelican 1615 Air case full of metrology equipment (i.e., very heavy, very expensive, very delicate) and a headless travel guitar during international travel this summer. I had the...
Thanks Ron. I couldn't pull it tighter because my four pieces of leather were very different sizes (one was about a third of an inch, and another was tiny, about like a shoelace)
I'm gonna braid...
Ron,
Your lips to the players' ears!
Unfortunately, in the US, as my mando mentor, Randy Torno, bluntly told me as I excitedly worked on a new mandocello design, "You're going from a player...
Thanks for sharing it Ron. That was recorded with my new custom built David Sefl 2 point mandolin. Jesper and the gang recorded in Denmark and I did my part in Sweden. More coming from us! BUT......
Working with my contact at Collings and Waterloo and it looks like this is going to happen at some point in the near future.
Who'd be interested in a giveaway of one of these very fine mandolins?...
A couple of new tunes by Chip Bach on his new Sprite 2X Two-Point --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwrkkCCR5U&list=UU23W0TBOYEtJzpGnV8yKVIA&index=4&t=0s
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It's the first one I ever made, so definitely not done yet. Sounds better with the bracing I've added to it. A couple more rounds of R&D, and some wood layers on the top to help it look more "woody",...
Well, yes, I can distinguish between instruments who design evolved over 350 years ago and whose originator is lost in the wisp of time versus the specific design created in the 20th century, by a...
To some degree, I think that's just the angle the author took (a good article usually starts with a good "hook"), and to be fair, on the surface it's not a bad angle from which to explore a music...
And we're done here.
Nice tune and video. Good vibe. Thanks for sharing.
So sorry to hear about that Ron, that's appalling!
Ron, that is a horrible story. A new instrument should arrive ready to be played, not ready to immediately go to a luthier to be made playable.
Sorry man, it's already shipped.
Hi Ron, Should be back on the carbon fiber project after a couple more builds. By the end of the year for sure. There's only one real hurdle left, which is...
So, I’ve got my next archtop underway. This one is having Brazilian rosewood for the sides (and other parts) and a maple back. I’ve put together a couple of video; the first dealing with bending the...
Before we get into the features of these new designs, let me give a bit of background.
This project starts with my belief that the Gibson/Lloyd Loar early 1920s mandolins were one of the most...
Thanks again guys! Illinoisfiddler, yeah we've recorded Blacktop Boy a few different times and still feel like we might not quite have done it the way we envisioned it from the beginning. Perhaps...
To answer your question: NO!
So a while back I posted our band's first proper video.
The song is about reaching the end of one's time on earth and reflecting back with pride on all you achieve, and how we shouldn't regret. A...
Hello f5loar !
Thanks for your comments ! The end result will definitely be an actual hard bound book. There is nothing like pages of paper. And yes - there is a lot of work ahead. But I'm in for...
Hi all - It's not nice to have to post this,but i've been diagnosed with a strong possibility of having lung cancer. As a life long non-smoker,that's pretty ironic.
It's not 100% certain yet,as i...
Amazingly enough, there is a pretty vibrant BG community here in Thailand. Especially Bangkok. These guys jam often at the Train Market in Srinakarin.
That young man is amazing. I've seen him...