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Mine's gonna end up on my truck. I ordered a Mando Cafe hat (which came today) and it came with two stickers. I'll be proudly proclaiming my love for the site on my noggin and my bumper!

Agreed. I've worked my tail off at music for 35 years and have achieved more than many. But fall FAR short of the household names discussed here and on the guitar forums that I hang out at. So when...

Very cool! I'll contact him about it. Thank you for the heads-up. A little bit of slop doesn't bother me with instruments this small and light. The bigger concern is if the instrument fits in there...

Thanks for that info Allen! I'll check it out.

Hi all. Been a while since I've logged-in (been focused on guitar), but last spring I bought Eastman MD515, MDA315, and MDO305. The 515 mandolin came with a hard case, but the mandola and octave...

Sounds like some good advice here.

I come from three and a half decades of the gigging electric guitar world, so I've got a lot of effects experience. I like compression on my clean leads, and I...

I have mad respect for the players who ONLY play the perfect notes (or the perfect space)... who are capable, virtuoso shredders, but have the restraint and vision to play exactly what's right, and...

I was eye-balling those blue Eastmans. I likey. But I likey the gold top Eastman mandos even more! I've had a bunch of blue guitars and none of them ever stuck around, so I question my ability to...

Agreed! Before, I was going through the motions, playing the notes. But they felt sterile and soulless. I'm finally starting to make the instrument sound cheery, but at the same time giving it real...

I hear ya there! I'm so tired of lugging guitar and PA stuff around. Hell... I put six acoustic guitars up for sale yesterday because I'm tired of taking care of TWENTY acoustic instruments alone...

I've been playing mandolin on and off for 10+ years. I'm mostly a guitar player, who's played all kinds of guitars, in nearly all music genres for the past 35 years. I was a classical guitar...

NICE! Best hijack evar! :grin:

Right on Jerry! I love Build Me Up From Bones! One of my favorite Sarah tracks. I've thought about working on that tune myself. She's also the reason that I picked-up the OM as well. I remember when...

I'm currently playing D'Addario strings on my new Eastman MDO305. I don't find them too tinny, but we all have different ears I suppose.

Just wanted to give your mention of Sarah Jarosz a big...

BEAUTIFUL performance!

Yummay! I've seen a few gold top Eastman mandolas and mandos out there, and (being a guitar player), I've drooled a little bit over those. I need to buy another gold top Les Paul...

I was fortunate enough to visit Music Villa in Bozeman, MT less than a week after I'd driven the 140 miles there to pick up my MD515, and spied a OMD305 on the wall. I picked it up and had to have...

I use sharp-tipped Dunlop Jazz III XLs exclusively on electric, as well as steel and nylon string acoustic guitars for many years. I want my pick tip sharp and the pick very stiff... for precision. I...

I hear ya. I just felt the urge to do some soapboxing. ;)

I think you're right about that. I played every Eastman in the store when I bought my 515, and the particular one I bought just jumped out at me... even though the 815 was the one that had my eye. I...

I dunno what you're expecting from a Chinese instrument, but I've played a few Collings, owned a pair of American Breedlove KOs, and just bought three Eastman instruments in the past couple of...

Why would you want to control the actions of others? I get it... not the point you were trying to make. I just tend to roll with the "leave me be and I'll leave you be" philosophy. Not exactly en...

Yup... as a 35 year long guitar player, I much preferred the wide, radiused necks on the pair of American Breedloves that I had to my new Eastman MD515. It's TINY!!! I Do however like the necks on my...

Ha ha! I do like the look of bowlbacks… but have never found them comfortable to sit or stand with, so maybe that'll keep me from going down that road. After I pick up a mandocello... I intend to set...

Hmmm... I've been drooling over a bunch of Collings mandos for a while now. But now you've got my wheels turning on checking into Ratliffs!