SRC octave electric . 2022 out of Eugene, OR
SRC octave electric . 2022 out of Eugene, OR
2022 SRC Electric Octave Mandolin
Crafter Acoustic/Electric Mandolin
Surf City Octave Acoustic Mando
Epiphone Les Paul Ukulele
Epiphone 1924 Recording A Tenor Banjo
Paramount 1929 Artcraft Tenor Banjo
I know what GBOM stands for "Guitar Bodied Octave Mandolin" but what does CBOM stand for?
Chris from Tucson
2007 Heiden Artist F5 #F102
1919 Gibson A3 #49762 (found on eBay for $15!!)
2022 Austin Clark Octave #159
1922 Gibson H1 Mandola #70063
1972 Martin D-18 (modified by Bryan Kimsey)
2024 Klos Carbon Fiber (on order)
It’s a catch all for the Mandolin cousins, Citterns, Bouzoukis (Zouks), Octaves, Mandolas and Mandocellos.
2022 Black A2-z #60
1996 Summit Artist #99
2018 Clark GBOM #208
Here's my 1995 Sherwood Bouzouki. Bought from Hobgoblin in Bristol UK in '95.
I've been searching the web to find more info, i.e. where made and maker. I've had no luck until recently. Previously I had seen that Sherwood Bouzoukis were made for Hobgoblin by various UK makers, the only named maker being David Freshwater. I don't believe this is one of his though. I've seen Freshwater and Freshwater/Sherwoods for sale and they don't look like this one.
Anyone have any thoughts about the possible maker? I have some idea, just curious to hear other peoples views on it.
It's had a quiet but tough life, having been exposed to some rather damp conditions. I've spent some time getting it back to a playable condition, and quite happy with it. Quite low spec., but it sounds sweet to me.
After 20 years of swapping around and trying pretty much everything, an endeavor characterized by a complete absence of craving anything like a "holy grail" and instead pure PLAY, I have found my two life-long keepers:
1. This spectacular Foley Cittern of indeterminate age but I suspect mid-80s, in almost mint condition with walnut b/s and gorgeous cedar top. 23" scale, I keep it tuned FCGDa and enjoy it daily:
What a sweet thunderous melodic voice this one has.
and
2. an otherworldly Pomeroy v-style octave, arriving only last week after I managed to pry it out of Don Paine's inordinately talented hands, and bringing such joy:
I have never had an instrument with such a rich, sonorous, dynamically broad bottom end, a full but not overblown mid, and a sparkling ethereal treble that just gets more bloomy and magical up the neck. It's like having a piano sustain pedal, in that a little palm muting gets bold fundamental, but let it ring and it just blossoms. I've never played, let alone given custody to, anything quite as magical. Full review to follow.
Grateful, as a college teacher having taken a vow of poverty, to trade around and mostly up and finally land on these two.
THANK YOU, you builders of playable art!
Mark
MarkKunkel that Pomeroy is sweet!
Stormy Morning Orchestra
My YouTube Channel
"Mean Old Timer, He's got grey hair, Mean Old Timer he just don't care
Got no compassion, thinks its a sin
All he does is sit around an play the Mandolin"
Mark, those are beauties. isn't 23" a bit short for a C, much less an F? Perhaps I'm an octave off and you're tuning it as a mandola with an extra course rather than mandocello?
So I got this K1 a few months back. It plays and sounds great!
It has a lot of well documented repairs that were done by Bernie Daniel. There is a great thread on how he repaired the sagging top.
There was another thread on the cafe about how a few people thought it had been re-necked etc....
Well, after reading through Spann's Guide to Gibson, I convinced myself that this is a 1937 K1 instead of a 1936, but that was about all......so finally I just emailed Mr. Spann to find out. Here is his response
Hello Mr. Uhrig,
Your Gibson K-1 model mandocello was originally shipped on Friday, July 16th 1937 in a #394 hard-shell case to Mr. Chick Hurt (1901-1967), a noted cowboy singer, tenor banjo player and mandolinist of the 1930's.
Your instrument was part of a group of three identical K-1 mandocellos produced by Gibson about mid-year 1937, long after the mandolin orchestra craze had died.
It is interesting to note that Gibson also produced a small batch of mando-bass instruments at the same time.
Joe Spann - Appraiser
Gruhn Guitars
How cool is that
Last edited by John Uhrig; Aug-22-2023 at 10:39pm.
1919 Gibson A3
1920 Gibson A2
1937 Gibson K1 Mandocello
2015 Eastman Bowlback
Here is my octave mandolin that I built almost two years ago. The body is parlor guitar-size and has an Adirondack spruce top, curly birdseye maple back and sides, curly maple neck, and cocobolo binding around the body and the fretboard. The scale length is 21". It's a lot of fun to play. So much so that my guitars haven't been getting so much attention as they used to.
I'm currently building a mandocello. I'll post that when it's done.
Last edited by JayD; Oct-27-2023 at 11:36pm.
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