Homemade F-style with reverse headstock:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MAND...YAAOSwImRYQsX~
Homemade F-style with reverse headstock:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MAND...YAAOSwImRYQsX~
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I've always wondered about posts like this. Don't get me wrong, I think that mandolin looks pretty ugly, but isn't our concept of beauty shaped by the Lloyd Loar F-5?
Had Bill Monroe not discovered the mandolin he did (at least for American musicians) we could have a VERY different opinion of what looks "good". And as a corollary, be obsessed with a completely different type of tone.
I guess whenever I look at photos of mandolins like this I think "what if that thing sounds 1000 times better than a Loar, but the only reason no ones ever played it is cause it doesn't LOOK like a Loar?"
Well, it won't cost too much to find out. But mandolins like this would never get built if Monroe hadn't made the Loar famous. Perhaps the builder would have made a strange Lyon & Healy knockoff instead.
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So he reversed the headstock, other than that it looks like many F5copies. How does it sound, that's what is important to me. Must have a F5 police now.
The reverse headstock would be the least bothersome thing to me. I just expect home made instruments (or any for that matter) to meet the standard I'd be happy with if I were to build it (or commission a build). The scroll (or lack of) looks poorly executed. This detail alone is probably the one feature that always stands out to me (nothing to do with Bill Monroe and his Lloyd Loar). I notice also the absence of the riser block at the 15th fret. It could have a dovetail joint or not, hard to tell. Does it sound great?, hard to tell. I'd hate to risk it based on the things I see that I don't like.
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That scroll is on steroids....
Reverse peghead reminds me of that (thankfully) short-lived 80's fad of putting a reverse peghead on a stratocaster. Also known as putting a left-handed neck on the right-handed body. Really off-putting, IMHO. I think Stevie Ray Vaughan had one of his backup guitars made that way and people picked up on it.
I'm always impressed when someone tries to do it themselves and I think everyone gets a pass if they fail! This doesn't look all that bad. It isn't in pieces or look completely unplayable and it's pushing 50! 1968? This guy was winging it anyway! There wasn't much information,no books, how to videos and practically no one to even ask how to build a mandolin. I keep thinking one day one of these will pop up and people will dis it and one of the really revered builders will step up and and claim it as their first attempt at making a musical instrument.
One thing is for sure, despite this being ugly, the F5 shape can be beautiful no matter the workmanship. A testament to perfection in design. And nobody, and I mean, nobody has improved or surpassed the beauty of the F5 mandolin design.
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