Lyon and Healy Lakeside Mandolinetto (guitar shaped mandolin) c.1910 Rare! http://r.ebay.com/xGFRek Neck has been reset, no cracks or splits.
Could this be Brazilian Rosewood back & sides ???
Lyon and Healy Lakeside Mandolinetto (guitar shaped mandolin) c.1910 Rare! http://r.ebay.com/xGFRek Neck has been reset, no cracks or splits.
Could this be Brazilian Rosewood back & sides ???
Jim
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Yeah but... "Budget brand", back before there was such high-tech ability to produce faux finishes, could mean that someone went dumpster-diving to recover the Brazilian that Martin and others considered too inconsistent for their intended level of quality. That variation in the sides' coloring probably would have been unacceptable in a higher-level instrument.
Several years back, Fretboard Journal did a major article on Tony Rice's '30s (re-necked) Martin D-28. Whether seen up close or from afar, the body is consistently straight- & tight-grained, what most folks might even call B-O-R-I-N-G (other than the not-quite-sanded-out sawmill marks!). It's nothing at all like what current, meaning since the '60s or so, Brazilian looks like.
- Ed
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I had an 1890 guitar with a faux finish of painted Brazilian on a mahogany sides and back that fooled everyone until you looked inside. 1910 would have had a couple decades of working with these finishes to be painted. They are quite amazing actually. Mine had the lighter line like this and I wondered about it not being rosewood, I would ask for a shot of the inside thru the sound hole.
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Jim
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19th Century Tunes
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
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