Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
"Heck, Jimmy Martin don't even believe in Santy Claus!"
One thing building a mandolin has done is debunk my previous idea that $4000 was a lot for a mandolin. I think if I was to sell my mandolin for $2500, I'd be paying myself half minimum wage.LOL!
Of course I'd get better and work up to minimum wage by the third or fourth mandolin. Much better if Chris Thele was my brother and would take one out on the road. Instant $7000.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Br1ck, I'm no millionaire & most of the time I fell like my fingers are all thumbs. I've been looking at the Eastman & the Kentucky & now I see this flatiron at Elderly for $985.00 how much more bang for the dollar is it for an old guy with stiff fingers just trying to be real & not go crazy like I did with buying a good banjo.
FWIW I went to my local shop a few years ago with a Kentucky model in mind and went home with an Eastman MD504, it was love at first strum and has only gotten better sounding over time.
B#
Breedlove American OF
Eastman MD504
Brian do you know what brand of tuners are on your 504.
I believe that the 500 series Eastman mandolins use Schaller tuning machines.
The MNi3. But I don't think Schaller is making those tuners anymore.
Here's a set for $70
https://reverb.com/item/2213551-scha...tuning-peg-set
I still think you'd be better off with the Grover 309n
I have an Eastman 315 that is matte finish. I upgraded the tailpiece and tuners but the most important upgrade was replacing the frets from the thin stock frets with medium frets like on a Martin guitar. That really brought out the mid's and lower end of that mandolin and made it easier to play. It is a very good sounding mandolin now.
sorry to say I don't have the money for a KM-900. I will say I love my KM-805. but that's not what I am looking for, I am looking for a satin finish man.dolin & there does not seem to be a hell of a lot of them out there. I liked the Kentucky KM-252, but Dennis from the Mandolin store says the Eastman 305 is a better mandolin
I considered offering these guys $500.00 or maybe $550.00 for this KM-900, but I've already got 4 mandolins, which is 3 more then I can play at any one time.
https://reverb.com/item/6328691-kent...urst-2014-s249
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
"Heck, Jimmy Martin don't even believe in Santy Claus!"
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
"Heck, Jimmy Martin don't even believe in Santy Claus!"
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