I know nothing about the seller or the quality of the product but that thing is cheap.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Golden-8-Str...gAAOSwj85ZiaMV
NFI
I know nothing about the seller or the quality of the product but that thing is cheap.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Golden-8-Str...gAAOSwj85ZiaMV
NFI
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Hmmm. Could this be a Chinese-made knockoff of the Ashton Bailey $54.95 tailpiece?
http://bit.ly/2fnBTgw
Sure looks like it.
Jethro lives! (Tiny, too!)
And I see the same tailpiece being sold by other sellers even cheaper. May need to try one on my cigar box mandolin project.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I bought more than two years ago in Amazon a chinese (Ashton Bailey type) tailpiece and is excellent, good finish, solid, and after this years of use without any sign of deterioration or failure. I don't remember the brand, but maybe is the same of the post 1.
I saw some with 'Morgan Monroe' packaging - made in China.
Yes, they are ridiculously cheap. From around $14 US/ €9.00 including free shipping.
Gibson F5 'Harvey' Fern, Gibson F5 'Derrington' Fern
Distressed Silverangel F 'Esmerelda' aka 'Maxx'
Northfield Big Mon #127
Ellis F5 Special #288
'39 & '45 D-18's, 1950 D-28.
I bet they are leaving the back door of the factory that makes the Ashton Bailey/Morgan Monroe tailpiece
As low as $9
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Metal-75x45x...-/322770832029
The only problem with those tailpieces 'for some' folks, is that they have the ''Monteleone style'' hole spacing - as per Weber & Lebeda as well. They won't fit the majority of mandolins with the ''Gibson standard'' hole spacings.
Lebeda 'Monte.' style hole spacing (Left) & Gibson style hole spacing.
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
At that price you don't have much to lose. If you have gold hardware on your instrument, this might not match, if that matters to you.
BTW- I have a silver Ashton Baily on my Fullerton Gloucester. I didn't like the look of all that silver, so I painted the recess of the tailpiece with black paint to tone it down. I was very happy with the result and it's held up for quite a few years now.
For wooden musical fun that doesn't involve strumming, check out:
www.busmanwhistles.com
Handcrafted pennywhistles in exotic hardwoods.
"Brass Black" is also a great way to make something like this black - it doesn't wear off or change electrical conductivity, and is probably the same treatment they use to produce the black gibson-style tailpieces.
Shame they don't seem to be selling these in chrome as well...
I have a problem buying cheap knockoffs of a design someone has worked hard to produce. If it is the same product made in the same factory or not, I'm not buying it.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
I wouldn't feel bad about buying this tailpiece. I bet Morgan Monroe buy them from China for even less than $9 and charges $50 for them. The Morgan Monroe design is already a knockoff of the Montelone style from Allen guitars. If you have the money, I'd recommend an Allen tailpiece for $95. USA designed and made. If you are a poor student in need of a mandolin tailpiece, buy what you can afford.
Would you have a similar problem buying a generic drug that cost hugely less than some name-brand version, I wonder? And would you buy aspirin or acetominophen rather than Bayer or Tylenol, for example? And have you ever shopped at Costco and bought their Kirkland brand? Examples abound.
U.S. and international patents are good for 20 years, and if the cast Monteleone/Allen style tailpiece was ever patented (I don't know the answer), then any such patent has surely long since expired! So this is not a patent infringement issue. It is perfectly legal.
This might be a "cheap" knockoff in the sense that the price is hugely less, but it's not clear if it is "cheap" in the sense of being poorly made. I suspect not, because cast tailpieces tend to be incredibly strong and overbuilt, but I would be interested in hearing the experience of any who try these.
Just got one a few days ago. Put in on an old Harmony I'm gonna donate to the JAM program. Can't tell it from an AB tailpiece and neither can the old Harmony.
For wooden musical fun that doesn't involve strumming, check out:
www.busmanwhistles.com
Handcrafted pennywhistles in exotic hardwoods.
Just ordered one at $8.99, let you know how it is :-)
Jim Richmond
Anxious to hear how you get on with it, Jim. I posted my experience on the other, later thread about these
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