If anyone might have a photo of the original bridge or where i might acquire one.
Be grateful
If anyone might have a photo of the original bridge or where i might acquire one.
Be grateful
It appears to be the original bridge unless every copy of a pre-Gibson Epiphone mandolin I can find had the same replacement. This is a picture of a 40's Epiphone mandolin. As for where to buy one I doubt you'll find one but a skilled luthier could certainly duplicate it.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I agree with my esteemed colleagues. That probably is the original. If you are expecting a more compensated one and prefer it for playing then buy a modern one and keep the original in the case.
Here is a catalog cut for the Rivoli and a few bridge shots from my files.
Jim
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Seeing how this is a KOOL Epiphone thread, Whose got one of those F scroll model rare Epiphones from the 30's? PM me, I have a certain lust for one? Like I need another fine mandolin!
Thanks men. Thankfully it is the original mandolin but the bridge just never felt comfortable.
Tragically someone moved it and created a scratch.
Left me in doubth
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Thank you Jim.
i'm like a little old hen who is just stuck on a cluck.
just doesn't sit right.
Thanks
Where were you when this Epiphone Windsor was offered for sale at Gruhn's a few years ago starting at $15k?
Here's an old thread on the topic. I linked to the start of the Windsor discussion.
Jim
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Yes I remember that one Jim, also Harry West had one but at the time I couldn't swing buying one! Also I felt it wouldn't be as good as an F-7 since on the Epiphone the board is glued flush and has a short scale neck also?
I played an Epiphone Strand about 1000 years ago at Silver & Horland on 48th Street in NYC. I could have bought it but it was no Gibson. Epiphone archtop guitars were every but as good as Gibson’s but I don’t think they ever figured out how to make a Mandolin go compete with Gibson’s.
Jim
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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
Whoa! Some respect, please! ;-) That "old cheapie epi" was a 1935 Olympic arch-top. Sure, the Olympics weren't the Masterbuilt level Epi's but they were certainly not "cheapie" instruments. The $35 basic Epi is $650 today. That $275 Masterbuilt would price out at $5155.90 today. Also, he's been on a different guitar the past couple years. It's a 1959 D'Angelico Excel, that had been commissioned by Homer and Jethro's own Homer Haynes.
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