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Shubb or Paige here.

Shubb for me. Allows tension to be adjusted so that the capo does not pull the strings out of pitch when you tighten it. Some of the other designs can exert too much pressure on the strings and...

yep, Shubb and I like the Khyser as well

Shubb. Unless you need to shift it while playing.

Glad you're happy with it. I wouldn't worry about the scale length and call it whatever the tuning you use indicates.

For what it's worth, I've never regretted spending money on a decent...

when my regular duo partner and I play locally here in Scotland and have our mandolins, octave and bouzouki all in use, we generally take a while to talk about them to the audience (means you have to...

The answer below in response t Ray(T)'s question at the end of page 1.

It's my analysis of the situation being an American player in the UK, and ignoring the early (and gorgeous) Gibson...

Budget and options
I have a small builder (Joe Mendel) OM and I really like it. But they are quite a bit more expensive. I have not played the Asbury, but they look similar to the Asian-made Trinity...

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That's what I was thinking too.

No question can ever be as daft as doing that to an instrument. Whoever did that, may have done worse, invisible things...

Looks to me as if removing the rubber matting has also taken quite a bit of the finish with it and it's been bodged up which might explain why he "hasn't had time". Apart from that, do I spy a screw...

I think he should do the removal and repolishing or drop the price. It shouldn't effect the sound but it will change the resale and cost you money if you wanted to get it fixed up, maybe quite a bit...

With regard to the tailpiece, it's easier to put together a non-standard set of strings -- e.g. you have a couple courses in octaves, a couple in unison -- if you can use guitar strings, since these...

Not that often -but there's one, with a case, on ebay now...

Andy

I've got an Ashbury E Style and I'm very happy with it - I upgraded from a Thoman/Hora budget model and the change was really noticable difference.

ScaleThe shorter scale was one of the...