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    I've turned into a mando slut.

    After years happily playing guitar, I bought a fifty-dollar Fender mandolin on impulse three or four years ago. Sold that, got two more - a Mid-Missouri and a Red Line - and still can't let a day go by without browsing the classifieds here.

    Can't say you didn't warn me. Thought I'd be content with one, but you all knew better. An old Gibson oval? A reso? What else do I need? Better check the classifieds again . . . .

    Is there a cure? I hope not! If I'd know how much fun the dern things could be, I'd've fallen into the deep end years ago!

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    No mando slut shame from this crowd! Your secrets are safe with us
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    A "major purchase" for a mandolin person is a "minor tune-up" for a boat person... carry on.

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    Someone once told me the two best days in a boat owners life..

    “The day he buys it and, the day he sells it!” And she was a serious boat person!
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    I avoid alcohol, I eschew tobacco, I spurn porn, I don't even own a television. But I can't stay away from the mandolin Cafe Classifieds! (Even though I don't buy anything.)

    Be sure to support the Cafe!
    Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Jacobson View Post
    A "major purchase" for a mandolin person is a "minor tune-up" for a boat person... carry on.
    I'll try that one on my wife. She's getting too used to "At least it's not motorcycles."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Bernstein View Post
    I'll try that one on my wife. She's getting too used to "At least it's not motorcycles."
    Well, at least she's never gonna get that phone call..."Ma'am, your husband has been in a serious mandolin accident...."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Roberts View Post
    . . . Be sure to support the Cafe!
    Fer sher!

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    Great thread, Charlie and made me laugh. Well, I always try to justify my MAS by explaining to my wife that if I could still drive I would be buying old collectable cars to fix up and that would cost so much more!
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    Your cure, or at least treatment that will terminate the compelling need to acquire another one, is to step up and get a really good instrument.
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    I stopped buying after I bought a beautiful F4 years back. But that doesn't mean I don't lust after every quilted maple backside I see...
    Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DataNick View Post
    Your cure, or at least treatment that will terminate the compelling need to acquire another one, is to step up and get a really good instrument.
    That's exactly what I thought.

    Live and learn!

    PS - Love your Vince Lombardi quote!

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    As someone who has owned both top-of-the line mandolins, and junkers, I am not sure that MAS is easy to be cured of - especially for those of us who know that we have addictive personalities.

    Got a nice F-5, then how about an oval hole for variety? Got a good mandolin to gig with, how about one that you can take to picnics, camping or vacations without worry of damage? Got a nice acoustic, how about picking up an electric to experiment with? etc.

    As has been said many times before; as long as you can put a roof over your head, food on the table, and keep clothes on the family - why not responsibly indulge once in a while?

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    I have owned more than one mandolin, boat and motorcycle and each time I got rid of anyone of them I had tears in my eyes, mostly when the boat was leaving my driveway... never bought another boat or motor cycle but do still look for bargains on mandolins...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Roberts View Post
    ...I eschew tobacco,...
    That "eschewing" 'backy will give ya mouth cancer, I've heard. Jus' a health tip...
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    Quote Originally Posted by allenhopkins View Post
    That "eschewing" 'backy will give ya mouth cancer, I've heard. Jus' a health tip...
    If he eschews one more time I'm giving him my hanky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie Poole View Post
    I have owned more than one mandolin, boat and motorcycle and each time I got rid of anyone of them I had tears in my eyes
    In most cases I feel the same way about the literally dozens of instruments that I have sold in my life - but with the exception of just a few, I felt much better once I had the cash in my hand.

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    I have pretty much reached saturation with guitars, but every time I think I could sell a few, I play them. End of story.

    Now as to your situation, I think you just have to have an old Gibson. I'm a sucker for a white top A3 with just the right amount of finish worn off from arm rub.

    Mandolin spending is cheaper for me than the almost daily Amazon deliveries. I mean, four or five days a week. I don't know what there is left for the wife to buy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by allenhopkins View Post
    That "eschewing" 'backy will give ya mouth cancer, I've heard. Jus' a health tip...
    I think it's an "eschaw" of backy down here...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Moss View Post
    I think it's an "eschaw" of backy down here...
    Well THAT explains it. I tot eschaw a puddy tat!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Br1ck View Post
    Now as to your situation, I think you just have to have an old Gibson. I'm a sucker for a white top A3 with just the right amount of finish worn off from arm rub.
    I would greatly enjoy having a '20s Gibson A style with some wear but not trashed, but only because I like really old stuff. Monetary value or build quality are strictly secondary. At any rate, it's only academic, since I don't foresee having that kind of money (beg beg whimper grovel).
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    That's how I cured it, long time guitar player, dabbled in Mando, got serious 4 years ago, went through a pile of them, stepped up and bought a great one....MAS gone

    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Bernstein View Post
    That's exactly what I thought.

    Live and learn!

    PS - Love your Vince Lombardi quote!

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    I have a buddy that got an airplane a few years ago (not a rich guy, btw..).
    Fuel, maintenance, hanger fees...
    So I always tell my wife - "at least it's not an airplane "!

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    There is no cure for MAS. Only periodic treatments that put it into remission for a time.
    I've put myself on a one in, one out regimen that has helped to prevent associated build-up, but it does nothing to actually halt MAS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by indexless View Post
    That's how I cured it, long time guitar player, dabbled in Mando, got serious 4 years ago, went through a pile of them, stepped up and bought a great one....MAS gone
    My two are as great as I need great to be. But - no reso? no vintage? no oval? no electric? 'Scuse me while I go down to the duck pond and wait for my ship to come in! . . .
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