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    I remember Elderly had an acoustic/electric hollowbody awhile back that looked like it was made out of some sort of composite material, similar to the one pictured on emando.com.

    I have no idea who "Ina" is, a couple of minutes of websurfing didn't find any info on her. But this pic was on the Lakewood (German guitar builder) website and it looks like more traditional materials, if not still electric and non-traditional in style.

    http://www.lakewood.de/gallery/showi...rtists/ina.JPG



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    i like it! like a cutaway gone mad! ar e there only 7 strings? i only count 7 tuning knobs.

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    5 + 3 = 8!
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    Hey Jeff -- did that model at elderly look like this one at Martin Stillion's emando web site?



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    I love it, and definitely looks like 8 tuners to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (mad dawg @ Nov. 05 2005, 16:15)
    Hey Jeff -- did that model at elderly look like this one at Martin Stillion's emando web site?
    "I remember Elderly had an acoustic/electric hollowbody awhile back that looked like it was made out of some sort of composite material, similar to the one pictured on emando.com."

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    Quote Originally Posted by (jefflester @ Nov. 05 2005, 17:24)
    Quote Originally Posted by (mad dawg @ Nov. 05 2005, 16:15)
    Hey Jeff -- did that model at elderly look like this one at Martin Stillion's emando web site?
    "I remember Elderly had an acoustic/electric hollowbody awhile back that looked like it was made out of some sort of composite material, similar to the one pictured on emando.com."
    I didn't read your initial post very closely, did I?



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    So have any of these surfaced in the past three years? I know these are long out of production, but I would love to get my hands on a right handed version of the model Ina is playing -- and in that interesting green-burst as well.
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    It kinda looks like a mini-Octochorda!


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    Quote Originally Posted by (jimmacd @ April 07 2008, 16:49)
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    So have any of these surfaced in the past three years? I know these are long out of production, but I would love to get my hands on a right handed version of the model Ina is playing -- and in that interesting green-burst as well. #
    Why are they out of production? The Lakewood guitar site is up to date. I must admit I find nothing about the mandolins.
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    The site mentions that when they were first starting out as a company, they made "all kinds of mandolin family instruments." I would guess nowadays the only way they would make mandos would be via their Cu$tom $hop, but I could be wrong.

    I think a modern, Octochorda-shaped OM would be quite cool, myself. Gotta have the heart-shaped soundhole, though!

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    I'll take that lefty!
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    I sent an email to Lakewood via their web site, asking if they had the plans to reintroduce their mandolins in the future, as well as if that still had their plans and forms to support a customer shop build, to which the owner Marting responded...

    Quote Originally Posted by
    Hello Jim,

    Thank you for your mail. Maybe we will give the mandlins another try in
    the future but not at the moment. Also I can't offer you to build a
    one-off instrument, unfortunately.

    Best regards,
    Martin
    Maybe if we commence an email-writing campaign, we can get Martin to try another run of these?
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    I'm dredging up this old thread, because I saw one of these mandolins at Hoffman Music in Spokane, WA today. I think that they wanted around $500 for it.
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