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My key board keeps getting wet from the drool. Maybe scott should make up a Loar section with all these pics. They make great backgrounds.
OK, OK, enough already...that may be the most beautiful mandolin i have ever seen. #this thread is somewhere between nirvana and torture...i'm not sure if i could stop looking even if i wanted to...too much drool...hands shaking...must mortgage house...MAS taking...over... ahahahdhghgagltehtekthhhhhhhttphhhhtllll!!!!!!!!
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..hmmm has the nut shrunk? or its obviously been replaced...
I don't remember having worked on that particular mandolin, but I can almost promise that is the original nut. It's very common to see Loar nuts smaller than the neck width. I don't believe they shrunk, but I guess salt water pearl could lose water content ????
Anyway, I'd bet it's original.
Charlie
..I guess Im gonna have to pay better attention...I dont recall seeing a nut on a Loar that doesnt come to each edge of the fingerboard...thanks Charlie
Tom C: We're on it (and then some! )
Most Loar nuts look that way..I agree with Charlie that they probably do lose something over the years
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The "shoplifted" Loar. 79833 Dec. 1, 1924
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All of these pictures are enough to make a grown man cry, thanks Daryl!
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One of my favorite scroll pics (73992)
"The way they should look"
Makes a great wallpaper, especially if you color match
your desktop (120:0, 240:125, 59:125)
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that last picture is beautiful. thanks!
Phyn
..has the front of the peghead been redone on that "shoplifted Loar" ?...the binding looks fairly white compared to the rest of the mando...
It was standard in late '24s to have white peghead binding and ivoroid body binding.
By middle '25 all of the binding was white.
Charlie
Charlie, what is the nut width on the 1923's? Thanks Clamdigger
Is that the original finish on the top of the shoplifted loar?
Everything appears original except for the hardware
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The nut width on my 23 is 1" as I recall..I will double check but I'm pretty sure. This is the narrowest that you will see..and generally shows up on the mid '23's
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Charlie is quite correct...The triple bound on the face/white binding first appears at the end of the Feb 18, 24 batch and generally continues until the end of Loar production. This is the "mismatched binding" concept I have spoken about..or.. by contrast these mandos are not quite as clean, smooth congruous, violinesque looking as most '23's are
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..nice lookin Loar...thats the first time Ive seen an original case with the red interior....Ive only seen the green...
A nice peghead shot. 73682, June 1923. #Note that the "dirt" and flowerpot base are always dark abalone, the ball is egg shaped and generally white pearl. #The tuner set on the left side is always mounted higher. #The cut-out for the scroll is wider than most people do their mandos..and note that the binding miter always points directly to the right, not slightly up or down.
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That's very cool. I think I owned that sidebound, but know for sure I own two of the's you've posted currently.
Darry, do you have photos of 73682? I feel this is one the most historically signifigant Loars in existence.
Folks should see the "June" F5, with it's unusual appointments.
Ken
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