well, I just had a few minutes with what is probably going to be the coolest looking,playing, sounding mandolin I've ever had in my hands.
was waiting for me today when I arrived at work, huge thank you to Dennis at TMS(does the guy ever sleep?). I think I emailed him sunday night around 1am about a used specimen he had in shop(I had looked at it a week or two before and immediately zero'd in-but I practiced cyber distancing and quickly closed the website). so I pulled up TMS around 1249am sunday, it was still there! I tried all the mental skills I could muster to build walls, to walk away, to look towards another direction.
the one on the left shoulder said "request a soundclip, that way you can see its not for you and you can truly dismiss this totally". never, ever, never, listen to the one on the left shoulder.
Dennis sent the soundclip around 330am(no, he never sleeps). I listened to it around 4am and of course, it sounded too good. I asked a few more questions but all the answers were high positives. it was over, I was hooked.
I'm really busy with work this week, but i'll get to it soon and send some pics. to stand behind what was in the mandos description, "blown away by this mandolin".
+1 on that.
and to come clean, I wasn't even thinking about any mandolin. since Dec 2019 I've been pretty absorbed with the dark dark side. I set up 2 PRS guitars for 2 teen girls at church, and suddenly, out of nowhere, I wanted something electric. I traded an acoustic for a nice USA PRS, then I got hooked on telecasters, was going to build a partscaster, it never ends.................
but, check out another cool $119 I spent 2 weeks ago, it needed some fretwork, but the pickups sound really good, it plays excellent, feels excellent, and it lives set up with 11's and in Open E, glass slides are its friends.
and the other one that followed me home a month or so back, humbucker in the neck, twisted single in the bridge, vintage blonde
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