The Fretboard Journal just posted info about a 10-String Bigsby mandolin "made in 1951 for a radio DJ named Johnny Muessig."
For auction here. I have NFI, and also don't have $20,000 for the opening bid.
Larry
The Fretboard Journal just posted info about a 10-String Bigsby mandolin "made in 1951 for a radio DJ named Johnny Muessig."
For auction here. I have NFI, and also don't have $20,000 for the opening bid.
Larry
ugly ugly ugly
au contraire mon capitan
what a piece of solid body hsitory
This is mandolin heaven. Don't care if you're an acoustic or electric player. From an historic standpoint, this is way rarer than an f-5 Loar. This is the official bomb.
This mando was discussed in September 2013 when it first surfaced.
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...igsby-Mandolin
Well, there was just one bidder after all that excitement. The mandolin is listed as "sold" on Heritage's site, for a price of $25K, which includes the buyer's premium. But there's also a "Make offer to owner" button, which might indicate that there was a reserve price and that the mandolin is still up for grabs: http://entertainment.ha.com/c/item.z...02&lotNo=46124
By contrast, an original Bigsby guitar in the same auction is listed as selling for $266,500, again including the buyer's premium: http://entertainment.ha.com/c/item.z...61&lotNo=54305
The owner of the mandolin would have done a lot better consigning it to Gruhn, methinks.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know about electric mandolins.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
Lyon & Healy Wood Thormahlen Andersen Bacorn Yanuziello Fender National Gibson Franke Fuchs Aceto Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Agreed. Let it mellow at a place like Gruhn's, and you get the guy who needs to mull over a purchase to bite eventually. That, and you get the guy who will go home, come up with a bunch of stuff to trade with Gruhn and get the purchase price down a little. Though, I do find it strange, from a collector's point of view, how you'll spend a quick 25k on any one of a number of reasonably available acoustic mandos by builders who are still building, yet pass on one where there are only five known, especially with the Bigsby name.
Played it recently, and yes, I took this picture. Bigsby was onto something with that pickup. This thing sounds great.
Sweet! Glad it's getting played.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know about electric mandolins.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
Lyon & Healy Wood Thormahlen Andersen Bacorn Yanuziello Fender National Gibson Franke Fuchs Aceto Three Hungry Pit Bulls
Is anyone making copies of Bigsby pups these days?
Maybe T. K. Smith?
If you could get your paws on some pickups, that thing would be pretty easy to replicate...
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
Not maybe, absolutely: http://shop.tksmith.net/collections/...guitar-service
Hell, he could probably build you a replica from the ground up that was indistinguishable from the original if that's what you wanted.
"But wasn't it all stupid nonsense, rot, gibberish, and criminally fraudulent nincompoopery?"
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
Todd Kleinsmith maybe? He bought a lot of Bigsbys old stuff, mostly steel guitar oriented. I thought he might be building some pickups. Do you know him Spruce? He lives in southern Oregon and comes to Weiser and Stevenson. good straight steel player.
-----------
Pete Martin
www.PeteMartin.info
Jazz and Bluegrass instruction books, videos, articles, transcriptions, improvisation, ergonomics, free recordings, private lessons
www.WoodAndStringsBand.com
Jazz trio
www.AppleValleyWranglers.net
Western Swing music
"But wasn't it all stupid nonsense, rot, gibberish, and criminally fraudulent nincompoopery?"
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
what a gorgeous work of art. Sorry I can't add anything more: but it is gorgeous.
JBovier ELS; Epiphone MM-50 VN; Epiphone MM-40L; Gretsch New Yorker G9310; Washburn M1SDLB;
Fender Nashville Deluxe Telecaster; Squier Modified Vintage Cabronita Telecaster; Gretsch 5420T; Fender Tim Armstrong Hellcat: Washburn Banjo B9; Ibanez RB 5string; Ibanez RB 4 string bass
Pedalboard for ELS: Morley Cry baby Miniwah - Tuner - EHX Soul Food Overdrive - EHX Memory Toy analog Delay
Fender Blues Jr Tweed; Fender Greta;
So, is Todd Clinesmith and T.K. Smith the same person? The latter's site has some beautiful Bigsby style guitars.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
The question, I guess, would be whether you can get 5-pole pickups (rather than 6).
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know about electric mandolins.
Notorious: My Celtic CD--listen & buy!
Lyon & Healy Wood Thormahlen Andersen Bacorn Yanuziello Fender National Gibson Franke Fuchs Aceto Three Hungry Pit Bulls
"So, is Todd Clinesmith and T.K. Smith the same person?"
Todd Clinesmith Instruments is in Glide, OR.
TK Smithฎ Custom Guitars, Pickups, Pickguards, Necks and Guitar Accessories is in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree, CA.
I can confirm that is quite a cool instrument. The "plugged in" sound is really something else
any videos or soundclips of it in action, Dan?
Kevin HJ Macleod
http://www.kevinmacleod.co.uk
No, Todd Cline smith and T.K. Smith are not the same person...
-----------
Pete Martin
www.PeteMartin.info
Jazz and Bluegrass instruction books, videos, articles, transcriptions, improvisation, ergonomics, free recordings, private lessons
www.WoodAndStringsBand.com
Jazz trio
www.AppleValleyWranglers.net
Western Swing music
I didn't think so but among the misspellings etc. -- some confusion, esp on my part. At one point I had some email conversations about my Roberts Tiny Moore mandolin and Todd was very gracious to refer me to a friend of his who did purchase it from me.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I think you guys will love this thread at tdpri:
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home...oubleneck.html
"But wasn't it all stupid nonsense, rot, gibberish, and criminally fraudulent nincompoopery?"
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
Bookmarks