Arm rest. Not necessary
Tone guard. Not necessary
Use them if you want to!
Arm rest. Not necessary
Tone guard. Not necessary
Use them if you want to!
This looks like it may be a "Leo's Wood" model. Here's a link to his page:
http://leoswood.com/armrests/
Those look very nice but mine looks a lot more contoured. I believe that Joe Cleary makes them specifically for his mandolins. Here is one from his site:
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I would add that there's absolutely no way I'd deface a beautiful instrument by unnecessarily screwing a large piece of plastic onto it.
Not that it matters so much, but I don't think I ever saw a plastic armrest for mandolins. Mine is ebony and every other one I have seen is made with some sort of wood with cork or some protective material on the surface that touches the top. It uses violin chinrest hardware. Having said all that, it is only recently that I am using ones on some of my mandolins but I don't need them. Most of my other mandolins do not have them. OTOH though I could probably play a fiddle without a chinrest I always opt to do it with one.
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Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
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
Ha ha, Jim. They're not plastic? My mistake, I had no idea! My mandolins are of the so-called Celtic variety - nothing added!
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
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
Like Gordonjackson I also play a mandolin of the "Celtic" variety and have no armrest. What I do use is one of those stretchy toweling wristband that you see tennis players and other sportspeople use as sweatbands. They're comfortable and stop disfigurement of the instrument from sweat etc and you don't get a line on the inside of your wrist from the edge where the top meets the sides. Oh, and they're cheap as well. Just an idea.
I like mine.
'20 Ellis A5 Tradition, '09 Gilchrist Model 1, “July 9” Red Diamond F-5, '12 Duff F-5, '19 Collings MT2, ’24 A2-Z, ’24 F-2, '13 Collings mandola, '82 D-35, Gibson Keb Mo. http://www.bucktownrevue.com
I found that armrests made with violin chin rest clamps can't be installed on mando with tone guard as manufactured.
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