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We have been making adjustments as there have been several unforeseen events recently. There are still a few A models in progress but I don't think there will be many more
Many decades ago, I designed an inlay pattern for a custom Collings guitar for Bill's mother. It became the "Mom" inlay. This mandolin fingerboard inlay is an adapted and updated version and can be...
Here's a rundown of my relationship with Bill Collings. I met Bill in 1978 in Tacoma Wa. at a luthiers convention. I went and visited him in Houston in 78 or 79. I bought the guitar he is holding in...
Not from IBMA. We showed only my personal mandolin there. These should have shipped over the last 2 months, but were awaiting tailpieces. They were happy to take them all at once. We have been out of...
It's hard to be sure from what I saw, but it is that mandolin.
Jescar 37080 .037 tall x .080 wide
Not a mandolin, but I do own this. 199283
Sad news, I played mandolin on her first album in 1978
the top is Red Spruce not Engleman, back & sides western bigleaf maple
Here's a few pics of #500 since the above link is gone193137
Yea, I slipped on the ice and broke my right arm. I won't be doing much for a few more weeks. It has been a difficult year so far, losing Christian and the ice storm, and I thought 2020 was bad
Just open it up already!!!!
Here's a favorite of mine
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for a slightly different perspective, I MOST CERTAINLY want you to try out anything from my shop
Thank you for all your kind thoughts and prayers. Most of you didn't have the fortune to know Becky, but she was my best friend and the sweetest person to ever have lived. As for mandolin content, if...
since this has popped back up, I can answer some questions. Roughly, this is $4000 more than my Deluxe A, but its a special, not a deluxe (triple bound everywhere mitered points, etc.). This...
I know a whole lot about this subject, but I'm too lazy to write much, and heck sblock already said all the true stuff. I would push shellac-based and Alkyd drying oil based varnishes into distinct...
Here's a pic of the ebony inlaid buttons
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Jake, the owner brought Nugget 310 over for show & play yesterday. I sure enjoyed checking it out and playing it. Very nice, and already sounds great.
Don, thanks for the nice write-up. It was great having you, and I hope to see you again. That pick was a real treat, one of the best I've had here, and that says something! I have some great pickin...
This one has tone bars like all of them. There are no Ellis f-hole mandolins with X bracing...yet
I make my own bridges. They are custom compensated for the strings I use GHS A270's
not tryin to pile on but this one probably should be seen here too149589
147315This is mandolin #70 which was the prototype for the new generation of mandolins. When I made it in 2004, we didn't have all the jigs and programs ready yet, so the top binding ledge was routed...