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    I'm a huge Gilchrist fan, and wonder if other Gil owners would be willing to post a photo or two of their instruments. In the mood for some mando porn.




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    Here is my Gilchrist Model 3 Classical. I believe it is one of only two that he has made.
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    And the back
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    Peter is very fortunate to be so close to the source; that is a beautiful mandolin!

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    Hi Peter,
    That is a beautiful mandolin. What type of tuners are those.
    I cant recall seeing black tuners on a gilchrist before.
    Thanks...Gary S

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    Here is a rare one I used to own An F5 Artist.
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    And the back
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    The tuners on my Model 3 are Gotohs. Steve re-works them. They look great, but to be honest I don't like them. They don't work as well as they should, and the knobs are too small IMHO, which make this mandolin not the easiest to tune. But then again, it stays in tune once you get it in tune.
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    Arthur, I remember that one at the 2003 mando tasting. I thought it was the best sounding mandolin there.




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    I traded her & got this Gil F5C Classical.
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    The F5C is pretty rare, Steve has only built about 10 of them. This one has a one piece back AND a one piece top.
    It has a deep sound to the D & G strings.....almost dola-ish. Evan Marshall has one, as does Butch
    Baldassari. You can hear Butch's on the Travellers CD w/Reischman & Bullock. Mine was recorded a few
    years back at Wintergrass & was on the Mandolin Tasting CD that Ken Cartwright put together.
    Actually Ken owned this one at one point & talks about it as the one he wishes he had kept.

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    SternArt: Is the F5 Artist x or tone? How about the Classical?

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    The Artist Models are usually tone bars, with bound f holes and were considered Steve's jazz mandolins, they are deep flame rock hard maple and red spruce for a bright clear tone, and employed gold hardware, usually MOP blocks & trussrod cover, a few like, the example above had the "tweed" blocks like Steve uses on his jazz guitars.........

    The F5C Classical model, is X braced, designed with a lower air resonant frequency, using softer maple for a rich resonant mellow voicing. It has a deep amber varnish, black binding, black chrome hardware, cam clamp pickguard bracket and ebony tuner buttons, it has a violin-like look.

    These are both pretty rare Gilchrist's...there are only a few Artist Models with the tweed blocks, and maybe 10 F5C's so far. Peter's Model 3C is also a very rare Gilchrist. I have a Model 3 Artist that is black top with cremona back & sides. It has the tweed blocks, and if I'm not mistaken is the only one of its kind. The black top with bound f holes is indeed "jazzy"

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    Litter o'Gils at Steve's country bunker in mid-america, not a lot of paint on the walls there since his personal F5 done peeled most of it off! a humbling experience to A/B a decent one of mine next to that hearing impairer!
    I thought Arthurs blonde (mandotasting 2003)was like a chunk of Ghirardelli dark in a room full of hersheys kisses....like Dr. Science, Steve knows more than we do!
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    I remember Bill's reaction when Reischman played my Gil at the tasting.....Actually that chunk of dark Ghiradelli in 2003 was the F5C, the blonde was living in Colorado by then, and I never had the opportunity to take her to Wintergrass. I wish I could have them both, but in my quest to experience a lot of great mandolin voices, I usually need to trade one in...to get the next one. The blonde lives in Ohio now. Steve is not only very talented, and prolific, but the different voices of his various models is quite varied & wonderful. He really has been concentrating on the Loar type sound the past few years though, and wasn't offering the other models for about the last year he took orders.

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    Hope you don't mind Arthur, I remember Dan has posted a couple of images of your wonderful A5 from Inverness 2004...outstanding look and sound
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    Gil #03558

    Tone bar F5, started in 03,finished in 04, Cremona finish, 10" radius. Gotta love the wood. - Ken
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    Ken-- is that D log? Beautiful back.

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    Microphil(e)
    # Yes, it's D log. A pretty incredible hunk of old wood.
    # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #Ken

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    Ken, I've got 03 548, a cousin of yours. The D log back is virtually identical to yours. I'd post a picture, but my images exceed the allowable size to post. If anybody can tell me how to reduce the image, I'll get a couple of pictures up.

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    Feel free to send it to me. I'll photoshop it down for you
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    Great Loaresque looking wood...so what's "D-log"
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    Here's the one piece back from my Gilchrist. Red spruce top, tone bars in a regular ole model 5, #99452.
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    And another
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