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I have been building mandolins,,( generally one a year part time) since 1985,,I very much enjoyed reading This thesis,,and some interesting points were revealed,,one thing that might have been...

I have a beat up A-4 that needs restoration,

Well to me that keeping something like this in a museum where we can't hear it is like keeping a masterpiece painting in a dark room and allowing people to touch the glass case,,you might know it's...

What if all the violins from the Cremona golden age were to be put in a museum,? seems the very thing that made that mandolin so very important is it's voice,,a shame

Here is the back of the Custom F-5 I built in 1998

I simply don't understand given the amount of work it is to build a carved mandolin that someone would put another name on the peghead

Fred

Herre is a couple of the goldfeather custom I built in 1999 ( couldn't part with it

FRed

Here is an A I finished earlier this year It is perhaps the loudest A I have ever heard

here is a pic of the back of the mandolin I built thats in the painting

Its in my living room

Here is the A I finished earlier this year as well as my old custom
Fred

In person the painting is astonishing 36"x24"( except for the ugly guy)

This a pic of a painting I recently commissioned by Heather Horton from Burlington Ontario