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I don’t exactly tip but I round up generously and pay cash. Is that really tipping? My luthier has gone above and beyond a few times for me. Expedited work. Higher quality hardware when he thought...

I like how Gibson didn’t make the list, I wouldn’t pick them either but did really enjoy my A-9

Are you using an ultrasonic humidifier? Try evaporative

Mike turned 70 last year (there was a thread here wishing him happy bday) and I am sure he has for a long time had plenty of commissions. I think he (or someone) posted on Facebook about just...

I used to use them but now I don’t. I was working on my right hand technique and I ended up liking the angle better without it, but I can’t really say why. I had them on for a long time and they...

If it’s supposed to be what everyone requests, why hasn’t anyone said wagon wheel? :crying:

Rawhide

I find myself wanting mandola and resisting letting go of a Collings MT2 that I bought for the sole purpose of playing in bars... which was my main gigging mando for a while - but has already been...

I had ordered $18 worth of chocolate bars for my boss for Christmas. UPS stopped by 3 times and left a slip on my door each time. I signed the slip and left it on the door relieving them of any...

Dang! That back... :disbelief:

I re-string my mando on a bath towel I have only used for re-stringing instruments on, I fold it in thirds the long way and then roll the end up just enough to act as a perfect neck rest. Doesn’t...

I find the V picks very bright and almost brash. The triangle golden gates are much better then the round ones for me these days, but in the beginning it was always the round golden gates that gave...

Can anyone tell me the difference between the standard monel in 11.5-40 to the Gabriel Wiseman 11.5-40 version? Are they the same? I wanted to use the code Gabriel had posted here and figure I...

I have a grace Felix exactly for that use. Most of the time I use my piezo pickup and a tonedexter - it works better in noisy bars... but I am commissioning a mando that I will not put a pickup in,...

This: https://gruvgear.com/products/ukulele-gigblade?variant=5707070930972

was from this thread: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/141763-Mandola-Hard-Cases

and worked when I needed...

Thanks Mary, whenever I feel bad about having too many instruments you make me feel ok about it again! Lol

We are quite a community of MAS enablers :mandosmiley:

A month+ of 1-2 hr a day or two 3-4hr gigs. It seems to go that way no matter which brand of strings I use.

My long time guitar/mando playing buddy can corrode strings in minutes, I always have...

Were they a different gauge or material? Sometimes I feel my mando needs time to acclimate to the different tensions of different sets of strings. Even when the same gauges are used different...

I think we need to give Sturgill Simpson a break, he was probably hanging out with Tim while with Tim was wearing that shirt before the concert… We’d all be a little more mumble mouthed ;)

Very cool! I was ok with the A-style until I saw it was electric ;)

Nicely done, loved all the sonic textures and the feel of the piece!

I have 3 custom built instruments and have commissioned a 4th. If you know what you want it is the way to go. You're going to have to appreciate that builders other work though. And you have to...

Thanks for the comments! So many things went wrong, the first set was painful for us...
The lead singer may have forgotten a verse or two because he was nervous :disbelief:
I accidentally played...

I play in a cover band, we mainly play stuff from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and occasionally something newer.

We go by Daniel and the Deliverance, bluegrass instrumentation, but no true bluegrass in...

Imperfect perfection? (LLoars per Darrel)

We should be seeking Arete? (greek, borrowed from Pirsig)

I did this in the last year or so, hard road for sure... I do feel I am a better player now.

I would say be really cautious with a ‘fist’... I was doing more of a fist and ended up with a kind of...