So if you had just bought a Gibson mandobass, and knowing that Colorado Case Co./Small Dog appears to be kaput, who would you contact about making a gig bag for it? Asking for a friend.
So if you had just bought a Gibson mandobass, and knowing that Colorado Case Co./Small Dog appears to be kaput, who would you contact about making a gig bag for it? Asking for a friend.
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I'd check the Canvas Supply Company http://www.canvassupply.net/ in Ballard. They've done a few specialty bags and the like for me in the past. Plus they are used to one-off screwball custom work. Good bunch of guys.
Actually, you don't need to get all that fancy. For our Gibson mandobass I went to the local music store and bought a regular bass gig bag for about $70 and it does the job just fine. A little loose in places but the Velcro straps pretty much tighten things up and it is quite satisfactory.
I will see how the bag from my 1/2-size bass fits it ... shouldn't be tough to get another of those. Blue Heron makes a bag for mandobass but it's $385 plus shipping. (Probably worth it, though ... I used a Blue Heron mandocello bag for a few years and it was wonderful.) Will check out Canvas Supply.
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David Messina is a bass player who, along with his wife Laurie, started making bass gig bags as a side business years ago (when I was taking lessons from him), but it's really blossomed since then. Even though he started out making covers for bass, he now makes a variety of bags, all custom. I'm certain he could make what you're looking for. I can't speak to the current pricing, but you couldn't ask for a nicer couple to do business with. You can read about the bags at the link. They're well thought out and well constructed (NFI).
http://www.messinacovers.net/bass-covers/
Maybe a cello bag?
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I know I asked this before and probably got an answer but does anyone have the overall dimensions of a Gibson mandobass including scale length and all?
I'm looking for a project when I'm forced to retire. I only wish I was asking for a friend.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
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Mike, I have dozens of things that need doing around here!
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Here's what Vintage Guitar says.
You're almost persuading me to go out and buy one myself, just to give you my take, but not quite...
Seriously, Dave Stutzman at Stutzman's Guitar Center here has a "plectral choir" display -- matching "pumpkin top" mandolin, mandola, mandocello and mando-bass. If you contact him, I'm sure he'd be glad to run a tape measure over the J-1.
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Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
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Well, I may be following up on Nathan's recommendation of Messina Covers, because based on the dimensions in that Vintage Guitar article, they quoted me a price that's half of what a Blue Heron bag would cost.
This may entail taking some additional measurements, which I'll post here.
I really am asking for a friend, in a sense. Our mandolin orchestra had the opportunity to buy one of a handful of mandobasses that live in Seattle. So it's going to be an orchestra-owned instrument.
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Has do be a Canvas sewing shop in a Port city , like Seattle, with all those sailboats, here in Astoria it's on Pier 39 ,
By the Rogue Beer outlet and the Cannery Museum..
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
If you're wondering, a Style J mandobass is at its deepest at the center of the arch, near the bridge, at which point it's about 7.5 inches deep. The rims vary in depth a bit, being about 6 inches midway down the side but more like 6.5 inches near the endpin.
If you need any more measurements, let me know.
There are five Style J mandobasses in Seattle that I know of. One is on the wall at Dusty Strings, one is on display at MoPop (the "Jimi Hendrix Museum"), one belongs to a former Seattle Mandolin Orchestra member, one belongs to a current member, and now this one belongs to the orchestra itself. I took a tracing and will get the ball rolling on having a bag made.
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
The folks at Mooradian Cover Company made a custom gig bag for my mandobass. May be a bit pricey, but it does the job and lets me take the bass out to play. Since they now have a pattern measured directly from the bass it should be easier the next time.
You can reach them at:
Mooradian Cover Company
65 Sprague Street, 2nd Floor Center
Boston MA 02136
www.mooradian.com
info@mooradian.com
800-999-8930 or 617-333-6955
fax: 617-333-9657
Let me also recommend Blue Heron Case Co. in CA, who just made a custom soft case for my Stahl (Larson Bros.) mando-bass. Had to send them measurements and tracings, but it came out top-quality. Since the Stahl's pretty much a one-of, a soft case for a Gibson J wouldn't have done the job. Cost over $500 w/shipping, but Ken and Maria Jorgenson were great to work with.
Blue Heron Cases
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
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