Just strung up!
Just strung up!
Here is the 2nd Silverangel in 2019
I think this one has more resolution
Those look great, Ken!!
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Lovely!
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
2nd one might have to be added to my bucket list!!!! Love the design.
They alredi spoken for?
Ken, those mandolins look great! I love your Fantasma! Nice work my friend!!
Anybody know the wood for the top that Ken is using?
Tan
Not sure about the F but the Fantasma looks like redwood....
Mr. Ken, those are two beautiful instruments!
Mike
Those who think they should think, like they think others think they should think, need to think out their thinking, I think.
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W.P.
For the Fantasma the neck and headstock are different to the Silverangel Econo also the tuners arrangement differs.These are not evenly spaced and are not symmetrical like the standard Econo.Any comments on this observation.Ken may like to expand and explain why the difference .My preference on the Fantamsa would be to retain the same headstock as the Econo.Then again the architecture may be to enhance the sound of the SA.
Tani.
Ken does some nice work. I am saving my pennies. I wonder if the head stock shape can be changed? That upswept head stock on the A model is nice, but I tend to like a more traditional head stock. Still, saving my pennies.
Loar LM-370
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I've seen at least three different headstock designs on SA A style mandolins. Mine has the lovely Silverangel script logo I doubt I could live without on a Silverangel.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
So beautiful!
Waterloo WL-M
Blues Mando Social Group - member
Beautiful work Ken! Still loving my Debbie Rose!
Got my new 2019 Silverangel a week ago. I LOVE it. And it was truly a pleasure working with Mr. Ken Ratcliff to obtain it. He is so easy to work with – in fact wonderful. My new mandolin’s an econo A model, and it's got a 150 year-old redwood top, and a two piece sugar maple back. Dreamy Rubner tuners, cast tailpiece, Ratcliff ebony bridge and radius rosewood fingerboard. It’s so beautiful with an oil varnish, high gloss finish. It is tone bar-braced. It’s got such a sweet, woody sound. It's so easy to play; my hammer ons constantly surprise me. Clearly it's the mandolin! I told Ken if there’s a forest fire in my area, I’m getting my family out and grabbing my Silverangel as I’m running out the door.
They certainly are easy to play. A friend has a Pava we've passed back and forth with my Silverangel, and just the same with an MT comparison, we concluded equal but different. Those old redwood tops Ken has sound really good.
I paid used about the same as the new Econo A's go for. Mine is gently distressed and fully bound, and the Silverangel script logo inlayed on the headstock is something. Either way an exceptional value for someone looking for a warm tone.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
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