Loar Picture of the Day

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 5:27am

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 5:27am

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 5:27am

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 5:27am

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 5:30am

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 6:14am

Back to 75315.. Loar's Loar. I tried to correct some spherical distortion in this image from my odd angle/lens choice. The mandolin looks about right, but the case got bent by the correction (it's straight in real life!)

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 6:15am

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 6:16am

Pickguard.. note where Roger plugged the holes from the pickup volume/tone knobs. Originally Lloyd had a pickup fitted to the top that was non-functional when Roger acquired this instrument.

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 6:16am

TP cover is not the normal style 5 type, but shows remnants of gold plating

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 6:17am

Gold-plated tuner plates too..

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 6:17am

Here's my top shot. Color corrected just about right I think

**kudzugypsy** · Feb-09-2006, 6:43am

dan, i can see the virzi thru the bass f hole - were these placed more to the bass side, or centered with the bridge? if centered, are they really that large?

i think that is great that rodger brought along THE loar - its a great story on how he tracked it down and finally came to own it. who knows what would have happened to that instrument, esp with LL passing away in the early 40's and him having no children - for it to stay in LL's wife's possession all those years....i DOUBT many of you loar owners would find that to be the case these days. (ie, your wife/heirs not cashing out asap)

interesting about the electronics. that was WAY ahead of its time. this could very well be historically important not only for being LL's personal mando, but even one of the first electricfied instruments. wow - take that les paul.

**danb** · Feb-09-2006, 4:05pm

they are centered.. check the loarfest thread for a pic of one "outside"

**stevem** · Feb-09-2006, 7:37pm

Wow. The quality of those pics is incredible. (Nice loar too...)

**jim simpson** · Feb-09-2006, 7:57pm

Dan,
The scroll looks pretty nice on that Loar but couldn't you take a black Sharpie and touch that baby up?

**f5loar** · Feb-09-2006, 9:58pm

What and ruin 80 years of character? It's the ultimate DMM.
That mandolin had so much class.

**mandoJeremy** · Feb-10-2006, 12:43am

What causes the grain to show up in the wear so bad in the front shot of the scroll? Monroe's was like that I don't really understand why it looks that way. I know the strap causes it but you would think the finish wouldn't show the spruce's grain so much. It even still has the color in places but still has the ridges. Does this question make any sense at all?

**danb** · Feb-10-2006, 3:09am

sure. ridges are tougher, stuff in-between less so, so that's how they wear

**Charlie Derrington** · Feb-10-2006, 9:18am

Actually Jeremy, The wear on the back scroll is probably the strap and on the top scroll from a pick/fingernail. Dan's right, the softer grain between compresses easily, the harder grain lines don't.

Charlie

**Darryl Wolfe** · Feb-10-2006, 9:32am

OK folks. The "coup de gras" "sp" for Loarfest. Pat Sauber was kind enough to let me download these photos from his camera. He had taken these a while back when the A5 "visited" him. Thank-you Pat, these have to be the best pictures ever taken of the A5