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everything's going fine. A string of clams. Yeah, better check your grip!

Otherwise? I'd rather look at my picking hand! That's where the music is!

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but. . . was it a snakehead?

So interesting!

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Welcome to the Cafe! Love your story!

I'm a field geologist (and an engineer too.). Mandolin travels with me and they've been to a lot of places. Never a beater either! Just a real instrument!...

Cripple Creek
Angeline the Baker
Whiskey Before B'fast
Soldier's Joy. . .

stuff like that!

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. . . and welcome Herringbone72! Interesting first post! You must have a few stories!

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hahhahhaaahaaa! And, I know this dude that builds mandolins and he got me wondering. . . Does this observation scale up to the big boxes?

Discernment is part of the process!

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I'm in the midst of GOMAS. I currently own the Eastman MDO-305 - an arch-top, a-body, f-hole OM.

I think I want a 20-21-in-scale arch-top guitar-body octave mandolin.

Sell me on ff hole v....

perfect! Great work!

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47 cents and some old strings. The pick is in the strings, so that doesn't count. There'd likely be a capo in one or two of them also.

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oops! Forgot the tuner, but that's like the pick...

I saw the early NGR in a random bar in Denver in 1973. He was playing the A5.

I was a freshman at CSU and drove down with a group of classmates to check out the band we were going to book for the...

2020-won
plenty to practice last year
Happy New Year, though. . .

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Marcus, that video is great! Inspirational!

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Pheff! That sounds great!

Under COVID, I'm pretty much just playing my Eastman OM. I'm getting the feel of the scale and a bit of finger acrobatics! Many of my mandolin pieces I can relate to...

In 2004, when we moved into our new house. I carried 40 instrument cases from house A to house B. Haha, friends were helping, but they already knew I was in deep.

Other than wall hangers, I'm...

preparing to revisit, "Snowflake Reel!"

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Louvin Brothers' book!

Satan is Real.

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a well-built chipboard case. Yes, John, weighing under 1#. No! I don't forsee a Sherman tank or 747 in it's path. Yes, I do foresee carrying it onto a plane. It'll be overhead.

Some felt...

these are awesome mandolins in spite of their plain Jane looks. There is a sticker (likely) inside the mandolin that shows recommended string gauges. The GHS A250 string set matches perfectly.
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they are a bit heavier gauge and sound good. I'm too new to the OM to know anything refined; however. I just read somebody else tried them and gave it a go.

During COVID, I'm taken to playing my...

tumble in walnut shells?

(Just something I heard.)

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Hi All,

I went to the EJ-72 D'Adderio Mandola string set. No problems - like them just fine! Now, I'm wondering about the Thomastik's. Anybody have a recommendation on Thomastik's that are both...

I collect horsepower per square inch.

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EJ 72 seem to work for me. Next up?

Anybody tried Thomastik strings on these and which set?

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very happy with my A5 mandolin built by Larry Muth in Regina, Sk. Google his web page and check his pricing. It's favorable and he does great work.

Now, in dealing with custom orders, prepare to...

only to say the Flatirons do not have bolt-on-necks. They have M&T neck joints and the, "bolt" is for the purpose of clamping the glue joint. If you remove the hardware, the neck doesn't come off,...