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Thanks, Mandocrucian, I wish someone would have advised me earlier, I wasted 9 months in Denver before moving to Vail.

Made it home safely of course. I spent about an hour at each of the two...

Thanks for the responses. I'm heading down in a few minutes, so excited to get my hands on some quality instruments!

I took a several year hiatus from playing the mando (I know,) and am now getting back into it on a borrowed instrument. I am quite addicted and already dying to buy something better. I don't have...

Any ideas on what this thing is worth? I can't find any info on them. I've had this instrument for several years and I never play it, so it's time for it to go I guess.

This is pretty ridiculous. It IS his personal opinion. If you don't want opinions on the look of your mando, does it really make any sense to post a picture of it? Not to mention, hype it beforehand...

Gibson's binding work is better than most builders' I have seen, I'm not trying to bash Gibson, as seems a popular passtime around here. I don't however, like being told that a builder doesn't even...

I also would buy a Collings MT.

Jim, I liked your answer a lot better. It's good to know that somebody who expects to be highly paid for their work (and justly so) would try their best to build it right. To think of somebody asking...

I have the Thile and Bush DVDs, and I just got the McCoury DVD. I like it quite a bit, it is really cool to see them both playing together on the songs. It's fun just to watch, I actually haven't...

Joe, I appreciate your response, but I find it beyond absurd. #To say that you "leave perfection alone" is just ridiculous. #The whole point is that it isn't perfect. #Just becuase Lloyd himself was...

MidMo mandos are worlds better than Kentucky, in my opinion. I own a MidMo mandola and I love it.

To those saying the sound is more important than the looks - of course it is. However it should be obvious that a visually pleasing, wonderful sounding mando is preferable to a wonderful sounding...

Interesting about Collings' method, no wonder it looks so good. Well, I guess I'll just have to deal with sub-par work then if I buy an F, since I won't be spending $5k or more. It sure would be nice...

Recently I have decided that maybe I do want an F style mando after all. I have look at several Webers, one Gibson, one Collings and many random mandos I've never heard of. I have, of course, also...

I prefer Buffalo Brothers to any other music store I have ever been in. Still, their selection is limited just as every other store's is, and I saw that this place had a couple of Weber F styles that...

Might as well get all that guitar playing out of your system right now. If you're anything like me, your guitar will sit cold and lonely for a long time once you start playing mandolin. I figured I...

I went and checked this place out this weekend. Pretty cool little shop. I noticed that all of their instruments were in tune, which is nice. It also seemed that the bridge was actually properly...

Another vote for Mid-Mo.

Hmm, I tried to download the codec, but it has "adware" right in the filename. As much as I'd love to watch these, I'm not downloading that, and I wouldn't recommend anybody else to either.

I can...

I had a chance to play an MF last night for 30 minutes or so. Honestly I didn't like it any better than my Breedlove. I mean, the looks of it are great, and it's incredibly well made, I just didn't...

I use the D'Addario flat tops, and I really like them. I LOVE the wound A, it sounds so much better on my instrument than several other strings I've tried. I've never tried the Thomastiks, too much...

Your $800 is enough for a used Weber, Breedlove, Rigel or several other mandos that are in a different league than the ones you mentioned. If it were my money, I would definitely try for one of the...

Rigel did just about what you are talking about with their G110 see Goldtonefor an instrument licensed by Rigel with the same look and construction as my very expensive Vermont made model.
I'm not...

I'll go ahead and be the first to suggest buying an A style instead of an F with that amount of money. You will get a mando that's twice as good for the same amount of money. Otherwise, Michael Kelly.