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    Luthier&Pickup maker ret. Soundfarmer Pete's Avatar
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    Nice one Andrew - and you seem to have a great source of wood!
    I did a lefty Thinline for a French customer last month..........really odd! I like to have a play on the finished instrument to check set-up but couldn`t get my head round it......everything seemed upside down.......

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    That wood came off ebay. I bought it for next to nothing, and still have a fair amount left so that is the "stock" piece for the next couple instruments. No upgrade costs, first come first serve.

    I don't think I'm immoral enough to put that dayglo pink on an instrument.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thistle3585 View Post
    I don't think I'm immoral enough to put that dayglo pink on an instrument.
    The customer`s always right
    Even the pickups are pink

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    Andrew that wood looks fantastic. Nice work with the colour.
    If I hadn't just aMASsed another emando, I would be very tempted to send you an email. (Okay I am still tempted, but must be realistic in such times).
    Any thoughts about adding a symetrical 2pt to your standard spec?
    Hereby & forthwith, any instrument with an odd number of strings shall be considered broken. With regard to mix levels, usually the best approach is treating the mandolin the same as a cowbell.

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    Funny you should ask. I've had two emails in the last week about two points. Although its not a standard model, I have done a few two points in the past so I am tooled up for them including a carved top version. I think I'll do a couple two points, a carved top single cutaway and two flat tops. I think I'll have six instruments in this next batch.

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    Well, I'm back at it after having taken a bit of a break to work on my OMs and a couple tenor ukes. What do you call a grouping of emandos? A gaggle? A brood?

    Being a production minded guy here is a few of my two dozen necks in the works.

    And finally, the last of my ash teles is now gone forever. Thank goodness.
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    I'd call it a pickle of e-mandos. Nice work like that leaves me in a pickle to figure out how to justify buying another emando!
    Less talk, more pick.

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    Loosely based on the EVH Wolfgang!

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    A brace of 5 string explorers in their infancy......the maple top is a customer job, the one with the white scratchplate is an experiment....body is Idigbo, a medium density African wood.....rang like a bell when I tapped the board so had to give it a try!

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    This is one I`ve been dying to do ever since (Ok, a little while after) I played a scalloped Strat.....an Yngwe Mandosteen!!!
    I don`t know how it will work with an e-mando but suspect it will be a worthwhile experiment - probably a good way to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome.

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