It looks similar to, but not the same as, an Ashbury Style E. The body is very similar, but the headstock is different. I think they were designed by Phil Davidson, but were/are not built by him.
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It looks similar to, but not the same as, an Ashbury Style E. The body is very similar, but the headstock is different. I think they were designed by Phil Davidson, but were/are not built by him.
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I think these new Fender picks may come from the same source as Clayton NuTone protein picks. The material, the slightly odd colours, the packaging and price are all very similar. I have a NuTone and...
I think it's a Paul Hathway. I wouldn't have guessed from the body, but the headstock shape, nut and zero fret look very much like my recently-sold Hathway mandola. I think the label visible...
Schneidermusik.de in Germany also have them. If you buy a few sets at a time, the cost per set comes down and the shipping probably isn't too bad.
Keratin isn't all the same. Tortoiseshell is predominantly composed of beta-keratins making it much harder and more rigid than horn, which is mostly alpha-keratins. To achieve the same stiffness, a...
Hawk picks are made from casein, the same as Red Bears. If you can get one, buying a Red Bear pick from the UK would cost about $42 before any taxes - that would be a more appropriate comparison.
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It looks like his 1997 Manson. There are some photos on Andy Manson's website here.
You can easily remove the octave string on the C/G courses if you wanted a more conventional sound. Depending on how much you need to play in higher positions, you might have problems with the...
Thanks for the reminder, Nigel. I remember reading on your website that you'd moved to Leipzig.
Playing Fisher's Hornpipe in F also wasn't Kenny Baker's wild idea - a lot of older versions of the tune are written in F.
It doesn't help with the current value, but I remember getting a Sobell price list sometime around 2004-ish. At that time, IIRC, small-bodied rosewood mandolins were around £2400 and maple-backed...
You could ask Nigel Crinson in Hartlepool. He's a violin/guitar builder, but he may have experience with mandolins. He doesn't seem to have a website at the moment, but you could contact him...
I don't think it has a slotted headstock. To me, it looks like it could be a standard Gibson acoustic guitar headstock shape, or at least is based around that shape. Apart from the headstock, it...
According to Graham MacDonald in this thread, Dave Richardson's first octave mandolin-type instrument was made in 1970 by Gerald Short:
I also found the following info here:
There's a video...
Café member garryireland has one (the first one?) with a cedar top. You posted in the thread about it back in August/September. ;)
Sobell's first cittern was intended as a sort of hybrid of a Martin archtop guitar and a Portuguese guitarra, not a Gibson mandolin, so the Portuguese connection to Sobell's instruments is fairly...
If you don't mind a flat-top, you can get a used Oakwood for £450 that should be good quality. Fylde Touchstone mandolins are around £800-£1150 new, depending on the model, and are very good - the...
Link to the ad.
Yes, the Strings and Things website is essentially useless, but I found them helpful when I emailed them.
If you buy a pick direct from Blue Chip and pay the cheapest shipping to the UK (~$7) plus all the appropriate taxes, it still works out at around $50, so the UK dealer may not be ripping you off as...
Is this what you mean?
It depends on the tune, but I would usually play the straight 8th notes (and anything longer) in polkas as downstrokes, the dotted 8th/16ths as DU and the 16ths DU. As the tempo goes up, I'd...
They seem more common in the UK. Stefan Sobell and Paul Shippey are probably the best known for carved top mandolins with a flat back, but Richard Osborne has also made some. I notice that they...
There is at least one study in which IBS patients were openly given a placebo and told that it contained no active ingredients, but their symptoms still showed an improvement.
The placebo effect...
I think the 3-piece back was Peter Abnett's original design, first made around 1970. I've seen Abnetts with the synthetic backs advertised a few times, but it's possible they were different ads for...