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Hans, Iwas wrong on the number. I know you have #36 yet the one I played ifrom steamboat Colorado had the same finish as yours.

I have an lr bags bridge pickup coupled with a k$k stereo endpin jack. I use the lr bags 60- 70% and bring up the K&k underneath. Stereo cord split to any dual preamp.

Journeybear, I have come to the same view as you 'cept I never purchased to arrive at this conclusion. I am a wide neck, inch and a quarter, mandolin player, I am fascinated by the Lloyd Loar story....

As my mentor and mandolin teacher Jethro Burns would say," those bluegrass players will take a five thousand dollar mandolin and make it sound just like a twenty dollar snare drum!" Lloyd Loar
DID...

No difference, they are all worth about two hundred fifty dollars.

Lloyd Loar was a visionary with the gumschun on how to make, what he concidered extensively, to be the best acousticly resonant mandolins. He was NOT a builder, he was an acoustic engineer/ designer....

What number Jade do you have? I own three, #15, #39, and the last to ship out of port with No Label ole'37 or "Sam".

As a student of Jethro's I am very deeply moved by this article. The influence that Jethro had on me is undeniable. And right now I am unconsolable! Thank you Jethro, Don Stiernberg, and David...

And the "A" you foolishly turned down I bought, and it was the worst mandolin Ever made, crude to say the least, one step away from a banjo. I've had my hands on #11 owned by Roy Bloomfield,Vail co,...

There were two at Mansfield, I bought the brown burst #33. While searching I found your post," I played one of these down at Vintage Music in Waco", so on to Waco my virtual feet did roll and low and...

Bob McRee only helped in the finishing process and in the labeling. Bob did not label or number this one so although it's the "last one" made, not sure of how many were made......My guess is about...

That's to remind me to play the "Blue Notes"! A fine girl gave me a pearl which I inlayed as well as a "Grammy Pin" given to me by John from Ridgeway Colorado, he makes the "Grammys". he gave it to...

This was the LAST Jade mandolin to be shipped out of Mr.Pan and Mr. Chen's shop!

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In 2010 I was visiting family in Chicago and had just sold my A-5 San. Juan Mandolin. I had my 1921 Gibson A-4 with me for the trip. I stopped into Dr. woods, in Fox River Grove Il, to say hello...

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A Fishman bridge pickup or an L>R>BAggs radius w/ carpenter jack so you can try it "out". I like to have them installed with an end pin jack so it's stable, built in and ready to roll! And I prefer...

Lloyd Loar was just being kind when he should have dismissed the Banjo all together. His science was best put to work on the F-5 mandolins. Ever heard of a banjo going for the money the signed LLoyd...

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The Jade J-18's have a 1 and 3/16ths inch nut. I own an "Ole'37" which has block inlays and a 1 and 1/4". Radiused frettboard with stainless steel fat frets. They start wide and go to "double wide"...

I think the finish was thin andbrittle yet wreckless abandon is no excuse nor is it musical. Hope you,re enjoying your Jade.

Rick, Nice to see my former Jade#33 is back state side. I sold to Nic whome i assume you got her from him. On the topic of Bob McRee, I learned a few things about him, other than his current...

Where would this local shop be? Send me a thread, I'd be interested in seeing this mando.

I own Jade "#50 Rob Black" custom bird's eye maple and an "Ole'37" extra wide neck with block inlays that has no label inside, was not signed or numbered or labeled by Bob McRee. I was told it was...