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    Default Electric mandola coming down the pipe!

    No word on their tenor guitar yet, but in Eastwood Guitar's newsletter, here's what jumped out at me:

    "new 8-string Electric Mandola in the shape of the Eastwood MAP guitar"

    which for those who don't know, looks like

    No word on price, scale length, etc, but could be worth a look. Supposed to have more info available early next week.

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    Well that's cool.
    But I'm still waiting for the tenor guitar. The one at winter NAMM seemed like a done deal.

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    Hmm.. I don't know how to feel about this. I would love this, but for some reason I would rather have a mandola version of the Airline '59.. I wonder if all the bolt-on necks are swappable between body shapes?

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    Wonder if the mandola will come with a Bigsby...
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    Well, here it is a week later, and no mandolas posted that I could find ...
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    I've heard of a "Florida", but that one has a "New England"!

    That's a copy of an old National guitar. I believe that David Lindley has one.

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    I was right! Found it on Dave's website.
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    It actually looks Sahmaxesque. Red please. :0

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    Other than this video, there's still no copy or photos to be had. What is this, stealth marketing?
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    Default Re: Electric mandola coming down the pipe!

    Is there a recording of the actual mandola though, instead of airmandola? It looks cool and all, but enquiring ears want to hear!

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    Finally, it's up on their site. And it's CHEAP!

    http://eastwoodguitars.com/Other/air...andola_frm.htm


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    That is too cool for words, except for "I want one"!
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    Well, too bad it's only in seafoam. I would prefer black.

    But I still want one. I might even (gasp) buy it new!
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    US$500 W/ HSC and shipped international seems like a pretty good deal...
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    Interesting. I worked with Eastwood for awhile on an eight string bridge because they said their supplier in China wouldn't make a bridge with individual saddles. They elected not to go with my design, yet here they have such a bridge but they only offer it on the Airline and not the mandocaster. It makes me wonder if the Airline is built in a different factory, and possibly different country.

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    i have ordered one no with no case .i doubt i will keep it very long though, once you get used to 5 strings its hard to go back to only 4.

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    On the other hand, it might look nice next to my FM-984.
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    One showed up on eBay this AM. The Map isn't my fave body style, but this is certainly moving in the right direction.
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    Default Re: Electric mandola coming down the pipe!

    Quote Originally Posted by mrmando View Post
    On the other hand, it might look nice next to my FM-984.
    Yes, it would.
    I was thinking the same thing about my FM-988. ;-)

    Love the Map shape. The first one I ever saw was, believe it or not, Graham Nash's. He used one in the CSN Daylight Again tour (1983-1984). It was either sonic blue or sea foam green, the colors are fading in my memory. Had a gazillion knobs on it, looked slicker than a vaseline cover slip-n-slide.

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    Well, I just ordered mine. They have a deal until July 31 for free shipping. So you pay just $299. They don't have cases for them yet- Mike Robinson said it would be a couple of months for those. Buy hey, you save $49 on shipping. I have no financial interest in this at all, but if you're thinking of getting one of these cool little numbers, this might be the time. You need to order through myrareguitars.com- which is a related company to Airline. I plan on doing a review for Emando.com Martin when I've had a chance to test drive it for awhile.
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    no free shipping for me in canada ? may be i will email a complaint

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    Co cool!! I want one too!!!

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    looks and sounds awesome. i think id get one after i get my electric mandolin and improve at playing mandolin
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    Wow sent a little email to eastwood and they refunded me my shipping costs right away.great guys at eastwood thanks michael robson

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    These are now available in black, in addition to the seafoam, and also with left handed setup.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT
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