your mandolin ownership history

[mandroid]

Serialized reply:

Early 70s I got an A40 Gibson from another player for $150, spotted Ad note on the UVT Burlington student union
message board , while I was On the road with a Back Pack .
He even arraigned to have a friend hold on while I scraped up the Money in Lousy jobs in Boston.

That was the first one.

[pheffernan]

2013 Pava - just got it a few days ago, thx Pat!

Thanks for the refresher on your current holdings, Jim! My own progression looks like the following:

1998 Mid-Missouri M0 (sold to Dan)
1984 Flatiron 1N (sold to Rex)
2009 Redline Traveler (traded to Josh)
2007 Gypsy Vagabond (sold)
1924 Gibson A
2005 Collings MT
2013 Pava (sold to Jim)
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2013 Silverangel A (sold to Catherine)
2013 Redline Traver (sold to Dan)
2015 Black A2-z
2017 Poe Scout

[lflngpicker]

Thanks for the refresher on your current holdings, Jim! My own progression looks like the following:

1998 Mid-Missouri M0 (sold to Dan)
1984 Flatiron 1N (sold to Rex)
2009 Redline Traveler (traded to Josh)
2007 Gypsy Vagabond (sold)
1924 Gibson A
2005 Collings MT
2013 Pava (sold to Jim)
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2013 Silverangel A (sold to Catherine)
2013 Redline Traver (sold to Dan)
2015 Black A2-z
2017 Poe Scout

Hi Patrick, Looks like I am your #1 customer... ?! Dan

[lflngpicker]

I am impressed with the history shown here. Thanks for sharing!

My ownership history is simple...

March 2002- I was given a Fender Fm53s for my sixteen birthday. I still own it. Played the heck out it.

2010- Stopped playing for a while and got into backpacking.

2014- Started having kids and needed to be home more. Picked up the mandolin again as an indoor hobby.

November 2015- Bought a b-stock (the) Loar LM170. Still own it.

December 2015- Won the prized Weber Yellowstone F from The Mandolin Stores contest. I'm so blessed also still own it.

Zack, I love your story-- the most entertaining post of the whole thread! Congrats! Dan

[mrmando]

There's an older thread about this somewhere... I think when I posted in it, I had been a "flipper" for just a couple of years. Now, a decade later, it's just plain ridiculous. No way I can remember all of the mandolins I've had.

[mrmando]

Yeah, here's that previous thread. Ah, for the days of innocence when my MAS history consisted of only 20 instruments or so...
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...al-mas-history

[NewKid]

Started late but I'm planning for three and then I'm done.

2015 Phoenix Bluegrass
2017 Custom Sorensen AX
2018 Kimble Two-Point

[KrittMoore]

2001 Breedlove Oregon
2004 Breedlove Rogue
2007 Breedlove FF
2015 Heiden A
2065 still playing a Heiden

[Charles E.]

I have owned too many mandolins to remember but the ones I own now are the best. It will be interesting to see if Jim Garber takes the bait on this one.

[Russ Donahue]

Interesting thread. Here goes:

1973 - Aria A style. No clue what model it was.
1998 - Washburn A Style
2011 - Loar 500 A Style (when I decided I really enjoyed playing the mandolin)
2011 - 2009 Arches FT-O (I regret passing this one along - though it has a good home in Australia)
2012 - 1917 Gibson A
2012 - 1941 Gibson A
2013 - Bacon Banjolin
2013 - Stradolin
2013 - 2013 Ratliff A
2014 - 1971 Martin A
2014 - 2011 Collings MT (Awesome instrument!!!!)
2015 - 2010 Collings MF (excellent player - most often in-hand)
2015 - 2009 Collings MT-O (like playing my Martin guitar - sustains and rings like a bell in Franklin's Tower!)
2015 - 2004 Fylde Bouzouki (more interesting to play than a 12 string guitar)

You can tell from my signature below which of these have made an impact. Of all that have passed through my hand every one had a special appeal, but lacked a reason to keep. Except one. My Arches FT-O. Wish I still had that one. May find another some day.

[Russ Donahue]

This is like asking for a list of the names of ALL the girls you ever dated! (laughing)

Forget listing all the mandolins....this is the list that SHALL NOT BE NAMED!

[Tobin]

Seeing these long lists makes me think some folks may have commitment issues, LOL! I get that there's fun in the quest for new things, but I guess I'd rather be playing the mandolin I've fallen in love with than searching for a new one to love.

My mandolin history is pretty short.

2009 MK Legacy FS-E
2013 Ellis F5 Special
2013 Pava
1918 Gibson F4

I still own them all. I'll sell the MK at some point because I never play it. The other three are my lifetime mandolins. No need to keep searching for anything else.

(Acquiring mandolas, fiddles, and banjos is a different story!)

[darrylicshon]

1996 bought my first in California Ibanez 70's 512 A style
1998 cheap no name acoustic electric mandolin a style-given away
1999 cheap octave flatop top collapsed took neck off made flying v body for it-sold
Around 2000 bought ovation needed top the bracing regluded i refinished to darrylicshon1
2000 octave 5 string solidbody Emando 20"scale
2000 Mandola acoustic/electric -sold
2000 Galveston electric solidbody-sold
2001 old Russian 8 string
2002 cheap A style- sold
2004 or 2005 epiphone mandobird 4- sold
2004 cheap electric acoustic a style-sold
2006 celtic star bouzouki
2006 cheap a style-given away
2008 Mandola acoustic/electric body destroyed
2010 Made Flying V solidbody Emando 8 string -sold
11-07-14 vintage reverse scroll-sold
11-11-2014 J Bovier F5-T from custom shop
11-16-2014 The Loar LM600 badly distressed refinished to cherry burst
11-20-2014 cheaper a style-given away
11-20-2014 cheaper F style repaired -sold
12-2014 made 5 string solidbody flying v
12-21-2014 washburn F style M3EK-sold
2015 3 vintage no name mandos a style all needing work fixed 2 and sold them
02-02-15 8 string flying V solidbody
02-04-15 Fender mando strat 4 string
07-4-2015 Dixon DM8
10-13-2015 6 Kentucky km 140 all need work got deal they got damaged in shipping
11-4-2015 epiphone mandobird 4
11-19-2015 Ibanez 511 70's A style
11-20?-2015 unknown oval hole A style made around 2000'
11-30-2015 Kentucky KM300E 12-14-2015 Sigma SM35
12-22-2015 Ibanez M700S AVS
2015 Rogue rm100 f neck needed reset right now it's being charged to a steampunk mando
2015 Vintage a mandolin
2015 Vintage Banjo mandolin
Favilla Brothers Banjos
01-22-2016 Kiso Suzuki V900
02-10-2016 Fender Robert Schmidt
02-17-2016 vintage 82 Ibanez 511
5 string octave F style solidbody in progress
8 string flying V solidbody in progress
3 pointer solidbody in progress
2 pointer solidbody in progress
Exploryer octave 8 string solidbody Emando 20" sl

I sure i have missed a few and some of the date might be off a month or year. Glad i didn't write down my guitar history cause it's got to be over 200

[LadysSolo]

Great thread - now I know I am not the most afflicted by MAS! I still have them all (just started accumulating last October) -
Loar LM 220
5 bowlbacks (all with different sound, like them all for the differences)
Just purchased but not yet arrived:
2016 Pava player
2015 Weber Vintage
I intend these last two to complete my MAS. I did considerable research on this site and listened to many videos on youtube, and feel these will have the sound I am looking for. Kind of like keyboard, the Loar is the harpsichord ("sprightly" sound,) the Pava is more like the Mozart era, and the Weber is more like Beethoven. If I am wrong, I still don't believe I will be unhappy with them.

[foldedpath]

My history is simple: just one mandolin.

I got interested in mandolin around 9 years ago, after 30+ years of guitar playing. I did a lot of research on the Cafe and elsewhere. With years of experience buying higher-end and custom order guitars, I figured I needed to spend somewhere around $4k-$5k for a luthier-grade instrument that I could be sure was "better than I was" while I was learning.

So I eventually glommed onto a redwood-top Lebeda F5 that tickled my offbeat fancy for instruments that were a bit unusual. I bought it long distance, sight unseen at an online store and have been playing it ever since. It's my one and only mandolin. That, and a nice Weber F-style octave mandolin I was able to find secondhand on Ebay. I'm set for now, and the foreseeable future. I don't need a collection to make music.

Here's my redwood Lebeda, with a "chocolate" semi-transparent stain:

[sgarrity]

Way too many to remember.....but I've had my Heiden A5 from r a solid 8 years now.

[jasona]

In a Peg with a, what is that, a Black Watch?

I got some cheap Romanian eBay mandolin in early 2002 or late 2001, got rid of it shortly thereafter because the neck had moved and got a Kentucky 150s in 2002. I got my current Ratcliff A5 in 2004 if I remember correctly (maybe 2005).

I have only thought about getting rid of it because I was fighting with neck issues, but when I went to do it it always sounded better to me than anything I compared it with side by side. Finally Michael Heiden fixed the neck issues and I am totally satisfied.

[foldedpath]

In a Peg with a, what is that, a Black Watch?

Good spot!

Yeah, when I ordered that case, I talked with Sam about the lining choice (one of the cool things about a Peg, both gelcoat color and lining colors/patterns).

My family isn't Scottish... mainly Sassenach (British) by way of Appalachia with one Irish great grandmother, so no family tartan. But! We live in a historic Victorian home originally built by a seafarer named Grant, originally from Nova Scotia. With that link to (maybe) Clan Grant in the 1700's and the Black Watch, I figured that was as good a pattern as any, and Sam had it in stock. Besides, it looks cool.

[mrmando]

This is like asking for a list of the names of ALL the girls you ever dated!

That's a much shorter list.

But not as short as a banjo player's list.

[Pasha Alden]

2012 Crafter E acoustic mandolin.
2013 JBovier A5 traditional sunburst mandolin
The future:
2016 To purchase: vintage mandola hopefully in a shop in Baltimore.

[red7flag]

1998 Weber Bitterroot
1999 Pomeroy F4
2000 Lebeda AM4 (Mandola)
2002 Collings MF
2004 White Dove A Oval
2006 Collings MF5
2008 Ellis F5
2006 GIbson RSDMM (Was used and why date is out of order)
2008 Old Wave Dola #446 (Also used, from cafe member, but in order)
2011 Mowry GOM
2013 Hester F4 #31
2014 Ellis F5 #322
2016 Collings MTO #3460

[Tom Wright]

Fender acoustic-electric (FM52E) gave it to a friend.
Ryder EM-45 5-string solid body
Weber Special Edition---sold
Buchanan 10-string
Almuse 10-string electric
Buchanan 10-string (#2)

I'm done unless something happens to my favorite Buchanan.

[mandroid]

1922 Brown A .. bought on lay away in The 5th string shop in SF out on Geary st.

[Denny Gies]

Short but kinda sweet.
1975 Auria 2 point with F holes, kept breaking strings.
1978 1916 Gibson A 2 great sounding
1985 Kentucky 1500 an OK mando
1993 Randy Wood F 5 completely cured my MAS.......permanently.

[Ivan Kelsall]

Ok - For what it's worth :- 1) Michael Kelly 'Legacy' solid. 2) Lebeda F5 'Premium plus'. 3) Lebeda F5 + Weber 'Fern'. 4) Weber "Fern" + Weber 'Beartooth "A" style. 5) Weber "Fern" + Lebeda F5 'Special'. 6) Weber "Fern" + Lebeda 'Special' + Ellis "A" style. That listing includes the part-ex's. involved,
Ivan