High-end instruments are built by established luthiers with reputations for paying attention to all of the small details that optimize a mandolin, details that a factory worker building for scale may...
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High-end instruments are built by established luthiers with reputations for paying attention to all of the small details that optimize a mandolin, details that a factory worker building for scale may...
While I recognize that our budgetary sense of what constitutes "moderately-priced" is a sliding scale, I would point out that the OP joined in July of 2023 and only has 35 posts to date.
The...
While I understand that everything is relative in the marketplace, I don’t think that $1995 OBO is what the OP had in mind when introducing the term “moderately-priced mandolin.”
Have you tried the Wegen TF120 or TF100? That’s what I typically use on my lighter strung instruments, such as the RM-1 with flatwounds or Poe with medium-lights.
I’m just curious because one of the loose aphorisms around here holds that you should expect to pay twice as much for an archtop mandolin as a flattop guitar of equivalent quality. So a $1K mandolin...
What guitar(s) do you play?
I was under the impression that, when the mandolin craze ended, Gibson used up old parts to maximize profits / minimize losses.
With the caveat that one man’s midlevel is another man’s cheap, octave mandolins that thread the needle of being high quality but not exorbitantly expensive are often flattops which take less time to...
My perception was that the 590 model has always been all solid wood construction, just more modestly appointed than the 520 one.
https://www.theloar.com/lm590
What mandolin is it?
I had a 1984 1N that was a real screamer, sounded better than any other flattop that I owned at the time (a Mid-Missouri M0, a Gypsy Vagabond, and a Redline Traveler). I only moved it along because I...
Both? :confused:
I’m not sure if he’s officially retired, but Ross Teigen in Hawthorn at least had a stellar reputation.
https://vintagelicksguitars.com/vintage-guitar-repair-luthiers/
Your thread title (“best”) is a little at odds with the post within it (“decent” for $500 or less range). To answer the title, I’ve never played a Sawchyn Beavertail, but the best pancakes in my...
Would make a great album cover / title!
How's the recovery coming?
https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/214268#214268
I’ll believe it when I see an updated photo of your enviable closet. ;)
Mary’s house. :grin:
Why wait?
https://www.elderly.com/products/northfield-workshop-mahogany-archtop-octave-mandolin-with-case
The difference between 1, 2 & 3 was wood and finish details.
#1 = Plainer woods, no binding or rosette, rosewood fingerboard
#2 = Fancier maple (koa was an option) binding but no rosette, ebony...
This is. Why are you shopping for mandolins with Guitar Center and Sam Ash?
They state as much on their website:
http://fletcherinstruments.com/setup.html
It does, but desire remains and seeks new objects.
Thanks for starting this thread and I hope people comment publicly. I too have been interested in one of Jamie's builds, especially as they seem designed to handle GDAE tuning on a 21" scale. I also...
Unless I'm reading it wrong, the FAQ on Collings' website suggests that your mandolin is a 2007, and that those A-style between 1568 and 1864 were built in 2008.
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I’d guess it’s a 2008 MT. How much are they asking?