I'm not sure which forum this should be posted in, so it wound up here. From a FB mandolin group.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/8-String-...8-4fec6556dcf6
I'm not sure which forum this should be posted in, so it wound up here. From a FB mandolin group.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/8-String-...8-4fec6556dcf6
I'd jump on that one...........with both feet.
Pawlonia trees grow staggeringly fast. Here's one in my old yard. Believe it or not, it's less than 10 years old. That's a 6 foot fence beside it. Custom has it in the orient that a father plants one at the birth of his daughter, By the time she's ready to marry, the father harvests the tree and builds a hope chest for her.
The Martin guitar factory planted a stand of them to test for sustainable guitar production. I got to play a prototype and it sounded pretty good.
Roger
1920 Martin Style A
1924 Gibson A2Z "Snakehead"
Don MacRostie designed Stuart MacDonald A-style kit I built myself.
2022 Kentucky KM-1000B
Plus guitars - lots of guitars
Two banjos, a fiddle, and a tiple
Scrolls differ quite a bit between the two pictured instruments.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
At least there is some truth in advertising:
"A well-built F-Model mandolin at this price range is truly unheard of."
Truly.
Northfield Artist Series F5 (2 bar, Adirondack)
Danger, Will Robinson! Cheap mandolins incoming.
Hmm... fingerboard is rosewood, but rest is made of basswood? Isn't that just one step above balsa wood?
It may play beautifully, but won't take any knocks or dings well. But at that price, they're disposable - its cheaper to buy another instead of a fret job!
Khat
On the first pic? The right side mando just has a bad photoshop job. The 2nd and 3rd pictures on the site are better representations of the scroll.
That mandolin has a darned nice pick holder.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I wonder what the "case gifts" are.
Let's hope the "gifts" aren't alive. (Thinking of a fiddle case I bought years ago which came with preinstalled bowhair bugs which reportedly also eat other things besides just violin bow hair - such as tortoise shell, ivory, hide glue, etc... although admittedly those are unlikely components for this particular mandolin.)
For wooden musical fun that doesn't involve strumming, check out:
www.busmanwhistles.com
Handcrafted pennywhistles in exotic hardwoods.
It does come with a hard storage bag, so there is that. Since the description mentions some features twice I am curious why there's no mention of an adjustable truss rod. Maybe there is nothing under that truss rod cover.
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