Specimen Custom 4-String Electric Mandola (recent)

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A new mandolin related product has been added to Elderly Instruments' inventory:

Unique shaped hollow aluminum body with f-holes Bolt-on birdseye maple neck 24-fret rosewood fingerboard Pearl dot inlays Kluson Deluxe individual tuners Special design single coil pickup with four pole pieces Volume control Sculpted aluminum pickup surround, bridge, and tailpiece 1-9/32" nut 16" scale Built in Chicago Hardshell case Consigment EC- SN: SP139 $3,200.00

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[ukrobbiej]

My god, that is ugly ��!

[mrmando]

Dang. There are, if I'm not mistaken, only two of these beasts in existence. Some years back I had just about convinced the [former] owner of the original Specimen aluminum mandola to trade it to me. But he backed out. Specimen [Ian Schneller] made a few very interesting mandophonic instruments, but focuses mostly on guitars and vintage-style horn speakers. Andrew Bird is among the artists who use Specimen speakers on stage.

The original is thirty years old; a reissue was made in 2008. I don't know which one this is. It is machined from billet aluminum (i.e., not bent from sheet metal). I know it looks weird, but the question is, how does it sound?

https://www.specimenproducts.com/pro...ctric-mandola/

[Mandolin Cafe]

Someone didn't think it was that bad. Just sold.