Hi Guys,
Hope that you’re all keeping well and safe- a video for your viewing pleasure!
Take care Gary
https://youtu.be/lTKxQ2xx2ts
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Hi Guys,
Hope that you’re all keeping well and safe- a video for your viewing pleasure!
Take care Gary
https://youtu.be/lTKxQ2xx2ts
Beautiful looking and sounding instrument. Your work is consistently impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by GarY Nava
Thank you for sharing.
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Sounds beautiful Gary. And well played.
Dave H
That looks and sounds wonderful, Gary. Fantastic work.
Paul Shippey has been making a range of flat-top, carved back mandolins and bouzoukis in the UK for a while now and I have been tempted by them. He calls them 'the axe' and some pros have been buying them. Does your version take a different path? It certainly looks and sounds great.
Many thanks for this Jill. For quite awhile now, I haven't been able to embed my videos, I guessed it might be because I'm in the UK??Quote:
Originally Posted by Jill McAuley
Thanks again, Gary
Thanks, glad you like it. Not quite sure what you mean by “Does your version take a different path?”. This mandolin is really development of my Standard Plus model, but with a carved arched back rather than my usual flat, braced one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anglocelt
Cheers Gary
What do you recognize as differences in tone and sound between the flat and arched back models?
Another good one Gary, you should try a flat back arched front for comparison, I have heard one or two of those that were very good sounding instruments too.
Great video, great playing by Robin and superb building by yourself, Gary. You must be so delighted with the sound this instrument is creating.
Re trouble in posting videos. I too am UK based (Scotland) and I have found that it is better to Go Advanced to post a video, and to include only that part of the url to the right of, but excluding, the "/". The other wee idiosyncracy I find is that when I put up a video on YouTube if I then go straight to the Cafe site to post on the SAW group, it sometimes does not load and gives an error message. I have found that if I wait a while then post the link to the SAW group it works.
Beautiful mandolin. Fantastic sound!
Thanks Jeremy- hope that you’re keeping safe and well.Quote:
Originally Posted by derbex
So many variations and so little time to build them all!
Cheers Gary
Always a difficult question, as all my mandolins tend to go straight out of the door and I never have two around for a comparison. This one; my initial thoughts were, maybe a tad louder and great A strings. I guess I should ask Robin as he now has two of mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philphool
Cheers Gary