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For anyone interested, he's asking $1500 Canadian. New truss rod and fretboard.
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For anyone interested, he's asking $1500 Canadian. New truss rod and fretboard.
I'm reviving this thread because an Elchuck mandolin (1934) has come up for sale in Winnipeg. I've asked the owner to send me photos. Here's one.
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Very cool. As a Canadian, I'll have to find someone to send me one!
Here's the original ad:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/416588697693155/?referralSurface=messenger_lightspeed_banner&referralCode=messenger_banner
Interesting, although not definitive. Not the same F-holes and Jake Wildwood's example looks like a flat top (so does that cool Lark, love the inlays) while the one I posted is definitely arched. ...
I'm familiar with B&J, Sue. I don't think it looks anything like a Strad. I'm wondering if it's a pressed or carved top.
For sale not too far from me. Wondering if I should check it out.
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I just bought a used Sawychin beavertail in as-new condition for the equivalent of US 550. (in Toronto.) It's a beautifully made little mandolin. Very good for old time and Irish music. The low end...
Hob Dye. On a Sawchyn Beavertail mandolin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoP-XNnoNU
This photo, taken from a member's post, is perhaps even more persuasive.
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Looking again I agree it could well be an Army/Navy. There's no way it's a regular Gibson, not with that shape. It's very hard to make a definitive judgment but looking again I see that is more...
Yes, I think a Belltone is a good possibility.
Interesting guesses. To my eye it looks too round rather than pear-shaped to be a regular Gibson. And that inner line or ridge doesn't look like a trick of the light to me either. The center seems...
Happy holidays, everyone. I noticed this very odd mandolin in a vintage photo for sale on ebay. The headstock looks like a Gibson; maybe the body is not original. Any thoughts?
Here's the whole...
Shelvin Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rrw-wwiGE
If I can, I take a regular mandolin and a carry-on suitcase; it all goes into the plane with me. If I don't have room I take a sopranino or soprano uke in my knapsack, with GDAE strings. No, it...
10 years old now, here's a video of the mandolin which I'm using on a trip to Denmark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHrvoocjhg
This photo came up on Facebook today from True North Records. It's a photo of Sylvia Tyson (then Fricker, best known as half of Ian and Sylvia) playing the Bohemian Embassy in Toronto about 1960. ...
Ditto. Love Tuba Skinny, really enjoyed the video of the glo worms. Thanks!
Photo up on Ebay....
Hi all,
We just bought a house in the country where we hope to eventually spend half our time. For anyone in the area, we are in Wareham, really a crossroads about 15 minutes from Flesherton. I'd...
All very interesting. As someone who has owned and released several tenors before finally keeping one (a 20s Regal), I've observed that a lot of mandolin players will buy one but then find the hand...
Just to add a detail, Stefan Passernig told me several years ago that he helped to build the first 50 or so mandolins at Collings, all MT2s. But I don't think he had any input on design. Rather, he...
Some of you might enjoy reading the old time mandolin article I wrote for the Old Time Herald a few years ago. It's up on the mandolincafe here:
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Nice looking mandolin. I bought a used Morris from someone but when it arrived there was a bow in the neck. The seller believed the weather during transit caused it. Sent it back. Here's another...