Wow. It looks and sounds great. I love the sound hole design. Very aggressive looking that goes well with the CF material.
Jamie
Wow. It looks and sounds great. I love the sound hole design. Very aggressive looking that goes well with the CF material.
Jamie
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Marty - You could make a 'sacrificial' lay-up to your spec.inside the mould tool,& then cast a silicon rubber 'Intensifier plug' inside it. Simply make sure that the surface of the plug is as smooth as it can be. Using the plug,which will 'spread' under vac. pressure,will iron out any wrinkles - in fact,it ''should'' totally prevent any wrinkles occuring. Or - if you're only having any problems with either the body shell or neck,cast a plug for that section only,
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Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
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Nice work,Marty!
Always wanted a CF mandolin;esp. since I got a vey nice sounding Composite Acoustics guitar(Standard X) that I have owned for a decade
or so. Love it. No worries about leaving it in a hot car etc. Worry-free acoustic instrument.
Well,I do sorta worry about getting it refretted. There is zero organic material/no wood,in the CA guitar(AFAIK).
Good one Marty.
I guess I am having difficulty seeing how this produces a hollow neck.
Bill
IM(NS)HO
Ah, got it. I think.
:-)
Bill
IM(NS)HO
I got to see this mandolin in person when Marty stopped by the shop today. It sounds amazing! Marty's really on to something here.
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Very impressive! Beautiful design, great sound. Any initial thoughts about production, price point, etc.?
Just one guy's opinion
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Thanks Andrew! I gotta say it looked pretty janky compared to your work, haha.
Paul, I have more R&D to do on this but will be producing more this year. Price point will be $3-4k, most likely.
I played this instrument last night. Very nice sound. Marty is working out the bugs in production in his head and I can guarantee it will be beautifully produced. He is as precise as anyone I've ever know except, possibly, Andrew.
I play one of Marty's wood instruments and have yet to find a flaw in it.
Bill
IM(NS)HO
That's great to hear, Marty! I'm very interested, and have no doubt you'll get them "right" before you unleash them!
Chuck
I was hoping to get in a test drive at the Guild of American Luthier's convention, but never saw you.....
Marty didn't make the convention. We took his kids and wife to Mt. St. Helens instead. He was on a tight schedule and only had Wednesday available.
For what it's worth, Mt. St. Helens was great.
Marty is wending his way back to Georgia now. He may have even gone crazy now with three boys, 10, 8 and 6, on a month long drive across country.
You'll know if he went crazy if his next build is a CF banjo.
Bill
IM(NS)HO
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Bada$$!!!! Darth Vader meets the Godfather; tech that my great grandfather would approve of!
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
If you would like to hear some fine mandolin playing, check out my first bands version of this song. (Journeybear is on mando and I’m playing the fiddle part on this one.): https://youtu.be/VGjKD5p5NX8
Oops! I may have derailed this thread with "Singing in the Bathtub." Now I will have to put in my order with Marty for my CF mandolin. Marty, can you make me a CF bathtub to go with it?
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Why do you need a CF bathtub, Jim? Just keep it at 45% RH and you're fine with your current wooden one.
You are right. The Florentine bathtub I inherited from Grandpa would do just fine, although those points stick into me at times. Grandma always preferred the three-point.
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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