Ry Charters has finished assembling and repairing my "Oldest factory built Gibson mandolin known to still exist".
Here is link to the youtube video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnw499yOJc
Ry Charters has finished assembling and repairing my "Oldest factory built Gibson mandolin known to still exist".
Here is link to the youtube video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnw499yOJc
Love it, especially that back that looks like a wooden frying pan
What a piece of history. My eleven years newer A1 looks pretty much like every paddle head that has come along since. Lovely to see the evolution.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
That's a pretty good description of the back. I presume is was too time consuming to make so I think the Gibson factory dropped that design the following year and made it fairly flat. The sides of the bowl are as thin as .040
Nice! Are the bridge, tuning machines and tailpiece original to that year?
Bernie
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Due to current budgetary restrictions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off -- sorry about the inconvenience.
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