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I too enjoyed seeing Nic back on stage but, with respect, those of you who think Nic originated that style would do well to compare it to Martin Carthy's. I also find that once you start playing in...

Lager's off! Nobody saw that coming. Thanks Ivan.

I saw my brother last night and he is still convinced that my F-12 has never been dismantled. The top finish was badly touched up prior to being...

Well, further digging in the excellent Mandolin Archive blows the last hypothesis out of the water:
http://www.mandolinarchive.com/gibson/serial/96388
This rare 1940 F-4 very clearly has the same...

Thanks Ivan. I couldn't agree more. I remember seeing and playing the first F-5 style mandolin made by a librarian. It was faultless in every regard and sounded superb. It was his treat to himself...

Thanks Bill, I'll pass that kind remark on. He is one of those special people that does something like this for the very first time and makes it look like he trained for forty years. The rest of us...

See my later post about the sunburst, all done with a brush! Neck is narrow 1 1/16", and a flat fingerboard. The bridge is not too high and it is not that loud when played near the end of the...

Thanks for your feedback. I should clarify that the overspray inside is very dirty and embedded with steel wool particles. If any professional reworking was done after 1964, it was then badly abused...

Thanks both. The plot thickens a little since the Gibson inlay is almost identical to this custom, signed, 1971 "original" on Ebay http://r.ebay.com/wr7Lev which, assuming it is "right", means that...

Hi everyone. First posting... (crazy fool!)

I think my F12 #177035 is a bit of an oddity. I suspect that the inlays may have been added to enhance a basic headstock because they do not look...