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I have played the fender and have owned a few airline and eastwood instruments and tend to find decent but inexpensive pups and tuners . the neck angle may need to be changed a little , fret dressing...

welcome to the emando world . emando is not always respected in the electric world , but pay it no mind and enjoy making the music

looks nice and solid

a tube amp has less headroom than a solid state amp generally speaking . but I prefer tubes for amp tone and crunch or distortion . but if running a lot of effects or modulators through an amp then...

Nicely done !:mandosmiley: I have wanted to build something similar like this my self . only with 5 strings
134046 and no I do not want a ham sandwich

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/radical-conservatism-bluegrass-180955121/ Something to read and or discuss for you all .:mandosmiley:

try again -
https://youtu.be/Dsy6eAz4a3I

It is a big long journey , so many options with electronics . just have fun checking stuff out . amps ,effects processors , pick ups, every day some new pedal seems to come out or some new effects...

i use flatwounds on everything electric or acoustic

great work pete . your my favorite electric builder by far

Beautiful ! great work

As far as the low C string , you have to adapt to how it sounds . it will not have that tight mandolin sound you get from gdae strings . a 14 1/2 scale helps a small amount . think guitar in drop D...

Excellent work !

these are both entry level instruments . you might as well get the one you like the look of , or better yet buy the one you can find used for the cheapest price .

You can use a small tube preamp to get the "warm tube" tone , you do not need to buy a whole tube amp . this will give you the option to remove the tube preamp or keep it in the loop as the situation...

That almuse pick up sounds great - Thanks for sharing the vids :mandosmiley:

The notes are far less important than the rhythm . get a book that is only about rhythm patterns and use it with a metronome .

I used joel rothmans - Teaching Rhythm - for all instruments / class...

One of my biggest favorites is Sandy . you know I discovered her about 23 yrs ago through Fairport but it was only a few years ago that I found out she was the vocals with Plant in Battle of Evermore...

you can stuff the mando with tissue , I have done this to a cheap mando and it is easily reversible

It is a file in a "apple only format " that zoom uses , I could probably import it to play in my zoom handy share program that I got with my Q3 ,but I do not download files from strangers . try...

I personally prefer to have the $1,000 dollar strap hook on my mandolin

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?106333-Warren-Ellis-Signature-MandoTenor

Sounds like you have an "Uncontrollable Urge"



http://youtu.be/a8UcpmUQkNU

Thanks for sharing , fortunately for me they are not making 5 string mando/5 string tenor version :mandosmiley:

Nice Tone :mandosmiley: