Apparently during a brief period in Lakeside Guitars' history, they made a few interestingly shaped flat-tops and composite-material emandos. Anyone out there own one of these, play one of these, or ever see one for sale on the used market?
Apparently during a brief period in Lakeside Guitars' history, they made a few interestingly shaped flat-tops and composite-material emandos. Anyone out there own one of these, play one of these, or ever see one for sale on the used market?
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The flat-top... (pic from Lakeside's web site)
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...and the emando. (pic from emando.com)
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Correction: the company is Lakewood Guitars.
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So who's the lovely lefty Lakewood lass?
(it's Lakewood, not Lakeside)
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I don't see her pic on their web site anymore, but she is a german performer that goes by a single name, which I think was Ena or something similar.
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Jamie
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Well, my Emando.com photo came from eBay, as many of my photos do. I seem to recall three eBay auctions a number of years back, but I was convinced that two of them were the same instrument.
Ted Silverman (Treblemaker) may have owned one briefly, or at least checked out one of the instruments being sold on eBay. Or I might just be confused.
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I absolutely love that body shape, and wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of them.
(I am speaking about the mandolin of course -- I am a married man
Thank you JamieOriginally Posted by (JEStanek @ July 23 2008, 12:20)
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"Ina" was the name of the lovely lefty Lakewood lass.
There was one of the composites for sale at Elderly at one time.
a previous Lakewood topic (that Jim last posted to in April :-)
Yeah -- I guess I've become a bit obsessed with the design.
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Awhile back, one was for sale at Elderly, and was pictured in their little mail order catalog... I'm not sure if that was the same one on eBay. I've since lost the catalog.
I mentioned this in the other thread, but the mando's shape reminds me of a miniature Octo-chorda.
I like the shape on the electric but on the acoustic. The design seems awkward to me... There it looks too much like a little guitar. Maybe it's just the color, or a lefty... dunno. I dig the electric one though.
Jamie
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Quite similar -- and I kinda like the Octo-Chorda's distorted heart-shaped sound-hole as well.
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Jim,
Hire someone to build you a flat top with a shape inspired by the Lakewood.
Bill Snyder
I owned one of the emando versions back in 2002 or so, like the gray one pictured above. #I think Lakewood's name for it was "The Stage Mandolin." #It was all solid tonewoods, with a kind of industrial matte paint on the body, and very nicely made. The idea was that you could treat it a little roughly without worrying about marring the finish. It had an under-the-sadde piezo, and I think their own preamp -- just volume and tone. #
I bought it on eBay from a guy who had started to import them, changed his mind, and was selling out. #I contacted Lakewood to see if I could get a case for it, and they weren't making them anymore. I think I consigned it at Elderly, so maybe it was the one mentioned earlier. #Acoustically, I found it to be kind of guitar-like, something like a Martin flat-top mandolin. #Plugged-in sound was okay.
Just a footnote on the octo-chorda... Basil H. on the Steel Guitar Forum clued me in to this video showing Roy Smeck playing his (evidently there weren't many made). Note he's playing it lap style.
So is it a Hawaiian instrument, or played Spanish style as in the other photo I linked to? Who knows.. It obviously has individual (vs. paired) strings.
In any case, I would love an OM shaped like that, with the heart-shaped soundhole, of course!
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