The Lumanog Supersonic! ....
https://www.elderly.com/catalog/prod...ge+Instruments
NFI here.
The Lumanog Supersonic! ....
https://www.elderly.com/catalog/prod...ge+Instruments
NFI here.
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
"I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling in this establishment!"
It's 20 bucks and you have not snapped that rascal up, Jaycat, I'm astounded!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
I'm surprised Elderly made such an elaborate ad just to sell a $20 instrument! I kinda like the back wood figure and the plaid gig bag!
Last edited by Jeff Mando; Aug-14-2017 at 11:44am.
Just what I thought when I read it. Must have cost more than $20 in staff time.
I've noticed more "as is" cheapos being listed by Elderly in the past couple years, and I wonder how, and why, they're acquiring instruments that aren't worth fixing, and selling them at prices that won't yield them any profit. Most of the local dealers I know wouldn't take a mandolin like that in trade, saying, "it's not worth fixing." Some of these dealers will sell good instruments in need of significant repairs "as is," if they don't have the time to do the work but hope that a purchaser can do the restoration. Bernunzio, e.g., has a "flea market" section on his website, where you can pick up an original 1940's National finger-pick for the modest sum of $40, and similar bargains...
This one, I don't know. It's sorta retro "shabby chic," but beyond that...?
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Didn't the Shmergel Devastator people sue Lumanog for copyright infringement?
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know about electric mandolins.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
Lyon & Healy • Wood • Thormahlen • Andersen • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know about electric mandolins.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
Lyon & Healy • Wood • Thormahlen • Andersen • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Ha ha, you guys. This little bow-wow bears not the slightest resemblance to a Shmergel Devastator. I'd post a picture of my Shmergel, if [a] I had one, and [b] the stellar luminescence of the Shmergel's 400 coats of hand-rubbed finish didn't make it un-photograph-able.
Any association between the Lumanog Supersonic and the Shmergel Devastator is purely the turbid product of drug-addled minds. Not that I'm accusing anyone, of course...
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
That one hurts my brain.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I don't know what ya'll are griping about. I think it would be wonderfull fixer upper. New top, new neck, maybe a new back and sides. Upgrade to Waverleys and a Cumberland Acoustic's bridge and you might have something.
Bill Snyder
i had a lumanog 14 string bandiera years ago. it wasn't badly built, but i got fifty bucks for mine, with no bridge strings or set up but recent frett dressing.
Such loquacious verbosity boggles the minds of mere mandolin aficionados sun had as yours truly. So, one can only imagine the truly Herculean descriptive efforts put forth by a literati such as the esteemed member above. Mr. Hopkins you have exceeded even your previous alliteration as regards the esteemed Schmergel Devastator, but, I fear you offer short shrift to the numerical superiority of the hand rubbed finish depth. I have it on good authority that the afore mentioned Devastator was five hundred-thirty-seven individually applied coats caringly with a Windsor-Newton series 7 red sable brush, hand cupped and trimmed each bristle being painstakingly trimmed for each and every coat. The only abrasives used were from the ash of the finest Macanudo cigar and first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil from a small grove in Luca.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
I visit the Elderly site daily, and appreciate the oddballs. Keeps me visiting. Sometimes I buy them. Sometimes I don't regret it. I still have a Marxolin hammer/zither thing I bought in the 1990s.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Wow.
I'm getting mine off the mantle.
In a past life as a tv tech it wasn't uncommon for customers to leave a set deemed not worth repairing. What were they going to do with a broken tv set?
Since this one states the neck is twisted, and it looks like some damage at the neck join area, I'd guess that might have happened here.
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