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I've had 3 of the LM 700 and all very good. Just two weeks ago I bought The Loar 310 fr an old friend who didn;t want to spend a lot of money. It was used but had been set up really well and was in...

I agree with Milli857. Its when you actually play a different instrument and LOVE the extra something you get from it. You only know when you play it. It;s the old story of playing say 6 Martin...

Hi Bren, I was reading and about to say 'you didn;t tell me about your Gilchrist' until I kept on reading. I too had a mandolin built by Marshall Dow. I was sitting in my office around 1990 I think...

Have a good look at the very top of your bridge. I have found over the years that if the strings sit on a very thin pinnacle top then the sound can sometimes be thin. I have often sanded the top so...

Dave Appollon

I wonder why Gibson did not continue with the Snakehead in their A models? If at the time, the snakehead was thought to be a better sound then why go back to the paddlehead?

The snakehead makes...

I've hand hundreds over the last 50 years (probably about 500) but am pushed to say any is better than the 2016 Big Mon I currently own. I've played 3 Big Mons and this one just has more pop and...

The A4 style one looks really good and is the best shape IMO. I don;t go for long scoops especially when made on new instruments. Pointless. I don;t like the Sam Bush style shape. Just looks wrong.

Thanks for all the feedback. I think I may try to GHS 10.5-38

To the post from Musicofanatic I very well know that and adverse neck effects is not really the main point of this, just a side issue. Habing said that, there are people who have concern on that...

I have always had my old Gibsons (I've had many) tuned to concert pitch.

The scale length of my current 1919 F4 is close to 14" and whilst it has always been easy enough to play, I'd probably...

I agree 100%. There is one individual, regularly on Cafe Classifieds, youtube etc who wants to show the speed he can play and he is not alone. Total waste of the demo . We want to hear VOLUME and...

I love these stories of how people came to acquire such things as Lloyd Loar mandolins. I read Ricky Skaggs story and a few others. Great !!

Bridge being too far forward is obvious cause of mandolin getting sharp. Certain bowlbacks do not have proper intonation on bridge top. Nut slots too high is an obvious one. Ultra light strings don't...

Yeah Tom. It was Arthur Robinson from Scarborough who used to make plectrums. I bought a Holoubek 000-42 guitar from him and later on he put me on to a Holoukek 000-45. He is sadly deceased now but...

Hi Tom. I'm Scottish and live in Northumberland. I've owned hundreds of mandolins and acoustic guitars (high end and low end) over the last 50 years. No disrespect meant but when you said the Eastman...

As long as you are happy, does it really matter?

I'd see a way to getting the Big Mon. It's got the lot and you'd soon get used to the wider fingerboard. I don't know why other builders dont make a 'slightly bigger mandolin' like the Big Mon. A...

Ah-----I see now, regarding the 'g' in calling. I think many such terms, including mando, come under the ' folksy colloquialism or conversational manner of writing or saying words' but it doesn't irk...

The poster of this topic uses the term Callin which is an abbreviation for the proper word CALLING. If he gets annoyed at abbreviations then why use Callin?

Northfield has to be in there. The Big Mon has made it's mark.

You can fatten up the sound by filing/sanding the top of the bridge saddle so the strings are not sitting on a tiny pinnacle. However that just needs to be ever so little as it will slightly lower...

I agree with Ray T. I honestly cannot see many mandolin cases being sold in the UK at £650. The odd pro musician travelling perhaps but good luck to Leon.

Could be one of the VERY early Gibsons (probably pre 1905) where the body rim was rounded/curved and as opposed to the later design of separate sides.

Great scale length for octave mandolin and always possible as mentioned previously that it was mandocello damaged and someone preferred the idea of octave mandolin. I reckon it should sound really...