Hi folks - I commissioned this weird little beast from my luthier buddy Ian Chisholm in 2012. Ian has made me several beautiful acoustic instruments and, as I'm a good friend and customer (we've known each other over 40 years) he said to me one day, "You've bought two - get one free!" Which meant, in effect, if I chose what I wanted and paid for the materials, he'd build me something for free. So, we had a chat and came up with something a little off-the-wall: a solid-bodied, electric, single-string, 5-course mandolin-cum-tenor-guitar thing - which we call a "mandotenor", for want of anything better.
The body was put together from offcuts in his workshop, so I just paid for the hardware. It's great fun, and you can see it in action below.
Cheers!
Will
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