Is this a refinished top?
https://www.musicgoround.com/product...m1500-mandolin
Was just looking this morning and saw this Kentucky KM1500. Looks like a natural or possibly white finished top with sunburst back and sides. Strange.
Looking around the scroll and 2 points makes me wonder if this was a strip and refinish job? Or was this factory issue? Looks odd if it's factory. But I'm definitely not an expert on these instruments.
NFI in this one.
A few pics for posterity
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Re: Is this a refinished top?
If not a stripped top and refin, then a re-topped mandolin.
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Re: Is this a refinished top?
"Is this a refinished top?" . . . I would say yes.
If you magnify the closeup of the scroll/fingerboard picture on the musicgoround link, you can see remnants of the original finish and other inconsistencies.
Anyway, I don't think even a sales sample or prototype would have been made with a gloss sunburst back and a clear or translucent satin top.
Last edited by rcc56; Nov-29-2019 at 12:03am.
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