Ry Charters has finished assembling and repairing my "Oldest factory built Gibson mandolin known to still exist".
Here is link to the youtube video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnw499yOJc
Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
Ry Charters has finished assembling and repairing my "Oldest factory built Gibson mandolin known to still exist".
Here is link to the youtube video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnw499yOJc
Re: Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
Love it, especially that back that looks like a wooden frying pan
Re: Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
What a piece of history. My eleven years newer A1 looks pretty much like every paddle head that has come along since. Lovely to see the evolution.
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Re: Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
That's a pretty good description of the back. I presume is was too time consuming to make so I think the Gibson factory dropped that design the following year and made it fairly flat. The sides of the bowl are as thin as .040
Re: Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
Nice! Are the bridge, tuning machines and tailpiece original to that year?
Re: Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
Nice video, great sounding mandolin.
Funny, I thought the back looked like a toilet seat lid.
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Re: Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
Originally Posted by Bmaverick
The video was excellent and nice repair work too. I was stunned at how really great it sounded! I hope you are really enjoying this bit of history.
Bernie
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Due to current budgetary restrictions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off -- sorry about the inconvenience.
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