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Excellent! Niko replied that he wasn't sure about it. Could you just check in so we're all on the same page regarding my order? Thanks!

Incidentally, I'm both happy and disappointed that the...

The thing is, that lack of enforcement action is exactly what Gibson embraced for DECADES. The original shapes of the mandolins, for example, have been used by others since at least the '70s, with no...

Man, now I'm concerned.

Keeping in mind that all of us are different, my personal needs over the past few decades has been light stringing with NO relief. I have been able to play chord-melody...

I never played tenor banjo, but I discovered the methods available everywhere when I got serious about learning CGDA mandola. The three books which really got me using mandola to its fullest were...

I thought they were to start shipping out in May, so yeah, production likely in April.

I have an Eastwood, and love it to death.

My personal use takes it, and also my Gold Tone GEM-5 and my J Bovier / eMando 5-string, beyond the norm. Fingerstyle jazz is easy with a good set-up....

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Beautiful!

I've had one of those 6-course, 9-string mando guitars hanging around for a while (doubled strings on highest three courses, E2 A2 D3 G3G3 B3B3 E4E4). It's been my intention to drill...

Just a thought:

A friend has a Tone Dexter. We processed a few instruments through tone-shaping, and once the "ideal" target was achieved we fed that signal chain into the TD input alongside the...

Hmm.

It's showing as back on sale, my payment is authorized but not processed. What gives?

I *love* mandola. I'm lucky in that I have particular tastes (oval hole, mostly flat top) which have few options, keeping any aquisition syndrome in check. I have Flatirons from across the eras,...

The same difference goes for my multiple Flatiron mandolas. All are Army Navy pancakes. The trussrod models weigh a little more and are less resonant.

If you aren't changing the gauges, as in just retuning for a few tunes, intonation stays much the same.

I have several mandolins tuned to CGDA which sometimes get bumped to DGDA, and others tuned...

Beautiful. I love 5-course instruments.

That close-up photo of the upper fretboard region makes the 13th fret look crooked / out of line compared to the rest. Is it correctly positioned?

I haven't gotten a notice about the Kickstarter campaign yet, but saw this pop up on the Klos site.

https://klosguitars.com/products/carbon-fiber-mandolin

Is this what we're supposed to use,...

My suggestion is to play along with blues shuffle videos for acoustic guitar. A lot of times I'll hear something which claims to be blues-y or jazz-y, and it's just bluegrass with a faint accent of...

Yeah, I wasn't thinking writer's block, but instead of capturing no matter the circumstances. Now, the more chaos around, the more I get on paper and tape / chip... and the more inspiration swirling...

Hey, Charlie!

I've had the same fantasy, being able to (variously) compose, write, practice, etc. I hope you find the space to do so.

In my case, I started folding activities into my day,...

Here's my method. It's not quite as quick and dirty as the half pencil solution, but I've never overcut a slot since adopting it.

I bought a couple of different sets of nut files from Philadelphia...

Just for fun, here's some examples of people going beyond the narrower boundaries of the acoustic mandolin.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6l0U0j0yCg
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Somebody did manage it.

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Details in the following topic.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/163316-Don%E2%80%99t-shoot-me-Need-Gold-Tone-F12-Mod-advice

Hopefully you'll continue to offer them without pinstripes while I keep building up the cash for one!

Interesting! Thanks for the pics!

I've followed more than one discussion over at sevenstring.org regardind which is the optimal fret to have perpendicular to the neck. I can't remember if a...

I normally damp the strings above and below the sounding length to be sure I'm not hearing overtones or buzzes and other artifacts. A metallic sound on just one course is strange.

I also go with...

Locking tuners pinch the strings, so more breakage on the O4+ strings.

They *are* stronger in the way GG was looking for... a string which makes it to B4 at a 25.5" scale length.

They way the...