Angel in distress

**kyken** · Mar-24-2006, 10:08am

Thought you all might like to see my latest creation.
thanks.......

**kyken** · Mar-24-2006, 10:10am

here's the back. It's oil varnished and has my 100 year old wood. It sounds like it looks.

**kyken** · Mar-24-2006, 10:11am

detail of the top.....

**kyken** · Mar-24-2006, 10:13am

the headstock........

**kyken** · Mar-24-2006, 10:14am

another head view...

**ronlane3** · Mar-24-2006, 10:43am

That is sweet Ken. What tuners are you using on it?

**Lane Pryce** · Mar-24-2006, 10:46am

Wow looks very old and with alot of "played in" mojo. Tuners look like Grovers. Lp

**Kevin K** · Mar-24-2006, 11:31am

Very nice looking and with that wood I'm sure it's a talker too.

**John M. Riley** · Mar-24-2006, 12:42pm

wow...awesome..

**Jim Rowland** · Mar-24-2006, 8:56pm

Ken, a fellow showed me one like that at the JP Fraley festival last year. Is that the same one? I was checking out a 21 snakehead somebody had just bought when he handed me your mando and asked what year I thought it was. Before I saw the logo I was about to guess twenties-thirties. Great job!
Jim

**ShaneJ** · Mar-24-2006, 10:02pm

Wow! That's cool, Ken. I love the back and the colors.

**kyken** · Mar-25-2006, 6:54am

no, I just finished this one two days ago. I've been distressing my mandolins since day one(1982), not all of them of course, but I've always had a great interest in that. This one is for Alan Perdue. I call it my DDM(drastic Distressed model).

**Mark Walker** · Mar-25-2006, 11:59am

Ken - that's a beauty! #It takes a true artist to make a brand-new instrument looke 80 years old! #And - knowing how your mandolins all sound - it probably has a deep, 'old' woody tone to it with exceptional volume.

I was wondering what you'd been up to - hadn't seen many posts by you, but do recall you mentioning you were going to be making a mandolin for Alan.

Mar-25-2006, 1:02pm

Looks good Ken.... I see where the folks at Smoky Mountain Guitars have one in stock.

~x

**bgmando** · Mar-25-2006, 1:19pm

Pant drool pant drool

**Mark Walker** · Mar-25-2006, 8:48pm

So Ken, does my area have one of the most 'dense' (other than your immediate area in/around Elliottville, KY) population of Silver Angels? #Gotta be close... I personally now know of 4 of yours and 3 of Laura's... #

**kyken** · Mar-25-2006, 10:25pm

Yea Mark, I just sent a killer 2 point to Ronn Koel up there in Michigan. He loves it.

**Doug Edwards** · Mar-27-2006, 11:29pm

Originally Posted by (Kentuckyken @ Mar. 25 2006, 05:54)

I've been distressing my mandolins since day one(1982), not all of them of course, but I've always had a great interest in that.

Now I know why mine looks like it's been beaten half to death. I thought it was all players wear, big mean player too. Or maybe it was.

**bluegrassplayer** · Mar-28-2006, 9:28am

Mr.Ratcliff
I love looking at your mandolins! I hope to someday have the money to get one.

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