Re: Strad-O-Lin mandolins - which, when, how good?
Originally Posted by
MikeEdgerton
...With that said, I might be tempted to find new tuners that would fit under the original covers.
That's the plan. I'm going to take off the covers and measure tomorrow.
Originally Posted by
MikeEdgerton
Back in the 60's-70's there was this movement to mark items of value with a driver's license number of even a SS number so the item could be identified if stolen. I suspect that is some sort of identifying number such as a drivers license number that was stamped on by an owner. I've never seen a serial number on one of these and I would think they would have had a jig to hold the die set even. I think it was done after the fact.
I recall using a DYMO label maker to put ID marks on things (loved that thing as a kid, ha ha), and my Dad had an engraver, kind of a vibrating pen. What would have been used to do this kind of embossing?
"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
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