eBay suggested that I might be interested in this listing. Instead, it just made me blue:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1924-The-Gi...QAAOSwikRbeuas
eBay suggested that I might be interested in this listing. Instead, it just made me blue:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1924-The-Gi...QAAOSwikRbeuas
1924 Gibson A Snakehead
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
Looks like a mandolin-banjo neck stuck on a tenor lute body...
Nice color for an old Stratocaster or something but looks out of place with that natural wood top.
I just got my TL to dola conversion back from Gary Vessel and I must say fantastic Dola conversion-very Dark sounding! I got the 24 Gibson TL from evilbay awhile back and it was a true basket case! Many cracks in top and back, terrible sanding to top and back, many little brad nails nailed into the back and sides into the neck block, broken neck at extension, missing all hardware, broken tailpiece base, A real basket case! So Gary made a snakehead neck, refinished the whole thing and gave it a brownish back, black top, pearl block inlays in ebony board, I had a vintage 1924 cream guard, and vintage style Loar pearl button prototype tuners that Derrington put together years ago, original "The Gibson" tailpiece assembly, He used the original pearl "The Gibson" inlay from the TL peg head and finished it in a lite varnish. What a looker man and spectacular sounding, I'll get some pix up soon. Gary does fantastic work!
That instrument used to belong to an acquaintance of mine. It came out of George Gruhn's shop in the early '90's. It already had the blue finish on it at that time. That is the original head. It was removed from the original neck, which was then shortened. Then the head was drilled for mandolin tuners, spliced back on, the moon inlay added, and the instrument finished blue. We don't know who did the work.
Seems like an odd choice for tuners.....
pheff--your list is missing a mandola. ebay is on to you.
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
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1924 Gibson A Snakehead
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
How about a few photos before the auction disappears?
Jim
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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 don't think it is going anywhere at that price.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
lard tundering jaysas h. christ on a crutch hobbling about aimlessly. what an instrument. i wonder if the scale length is octave mandola or a fifth mandola. a friend out west had one of those with the stock four strings. the neck was long enough for an octave conversion. but blue finish????
i'd love to try it, but it's awfully pricey.
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