I've ended up with four mandolins. This just occurred to me. 2 1/2 years.
Bought me an Eastman MD 305, quickly sold it and bought my Silverangel. That was it for a while, then the 199.00 Michael Kelly blowout came along. Nice, had an F style beater. Somewhere along the line decided I needed a quality F style. Bought the Arches kit. That quashed MAS. Wasn't going to buy another mandolin until I knew what the Arches kit was going to sound like.
Then my brain fanaticised the F was going to be good, so what next? A vintage A of course, so I started looking at them. But still not buying. Mando three wasn't done.
Well finished it, played in the white. It was nice to have three, but then I varnished it, and while it was drying, I was back to an unacceptable two. Hence, the A-1 came into my life. Back to three and the world was good again.
But the Arches dried and I was up to four. Four seems excessive. Please, I need plausible reasons, and if you want to make a case for five, I'm listening, but it better be good.
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