Addy top, Mahoghany back, sides and neck. A Koa soundhole rosette and back strip and Koa/flamed maple binding...plus a flamed maple bit on the back of the neck heel.
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A mandolin being built for Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots festival in Manchester, VT. This will be raffled off along with a Seeders banjo and a Pre-War acoustic guitar. A great festival that everyone should be aware of.
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Ol' number 002 getting a little French Polish refresh for IBMA 2019 --
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This is the first Sorensen Pacifica, and the mandolin, picked by my mando-mentor Randy Torno, that made its debut way back at IBMA 2011.
Back and sides are Curly Claro Walnut. Neck is sugar Maple with a walnut stripe. Top is salvage-harvested Alaskan Sitka Spruce.
Steve
Actually on the bench , a travel training mando
sides are removable for going in a little bag , it goes with a shadow undersaddle piezo pickup , a guitar amplifier and a 9 volts battery
tuners are back of the bridge for save space and balance weight .
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1912 - ish A-4 needing some love. Pristine tuners and case. Nearly no frets left. Should be fun !Attachment 180832Attachment 180833Attachment 180834Attachment 180835
Very nice A4 Dobe. Wide fingerboard and string spacing coupled with a deep V neck made my 1913 A4 Blackface very difficult for me to play. It’s a great sounding instrument at it’s best with Monel strings. I threw the original nut in the case storage and replaced it with a custom M.O.P. nut to bring the string sets closer together. The extra fingerboard width on each side is not very noticeable when played this way. The deep V I have to live with but all in all the new string spacing made the instrument much more player friendly for me.
My bench at present time.
They are looking good, Andrew!
Here's a collage of some of the stuff I'm currently working on...
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Current goings on...
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Very tasty, sir.
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Working on 5 ukes before New Years 2020.
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One baroque mandolin and one Brescian/Cremonese mandolin coming soon!
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I may also offer a Lombardic one of the same shape as the Brescian/Cremonese one, if there is demand?
Last construction of the year
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Steve, that back is INSANE!!
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