Re: Otwin Mandolin
The other thing on a lot of these East German (and Romanian) mandolins from that period is that they used very high brass content frets that are extremely soft and may well be badly corroded. Structurally, these instruments are not great...often beech used for necks... no truss rod or other reinforcement...they were incredibly cheap to buy at the time. I actually remember them being sold when new for less than 20 pounds in the UK.
Gibson F5 'Harvey' Fern, Gibson F5 'Derrington' Fern
Distressed Silverangel F 'Esmerelda' aka 'Maxx'
Northfield Big Mon #127
Ellis F5 Special #288
'39 & '45 D-18's, 1950 D-28.
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