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Hi, I'm new here and this is so hilarious!!! That last one on the first page by Garrozzo of Catania looks like it was rescued from a compactor! I would like to reserve my copy of the book: "Dead Sea Scrolls"...sounds like a best-seller! Of course, it would have to include the fabulous responses! Dr Suess ... and that elf... I can't stop laughing!
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Glad that there's photographic evidence for some of these crimes of mandolin fraud ... have any of these builders been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?
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the words "cake," "this takes" and "the" springs to mind:
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Wow, Bill. Cool! An electric coconut uke! Lovely!
Jim
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It reminds me of the false front buildings of a spooky western town of the turn of the last century.Originally Posted by billkilpatrick
What is cool here is that everything you need to make a "potentially" decent sounding mandolin is there, and then on top of that the attempt to give it an acceptable shape.
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Scroll or no, I think that is a uke.
When 'good enough' is more than adequate.
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almost ... it's a puke
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Would that be POO-ca-lay-lee, or PYOOK-a-lay-lee?
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Just saw this listed on that selling site..No interest here..I think it qualifies..
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Ouch......... proof that some ideas should stay inside the head in which they were thought.
Eoin
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Ebay special
Hereby & forthwith, any instrument with an odd number of strings shall be considered broken. With regard to mix levels, usually the best approach is treating the mandolin the same as a cowbell.
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It looks melted. Left in an oven too long? Microwave?
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Tow hitch to drag the thing home after a gig?
Can't imagine what the strap button is for!
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Not a srcoll, but crazy enough!
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/drh/msg/2628605670.html
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Oh dear!!!!! - http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/...uery=retrieval
Needs a Toneguard to stop the signatures wearing off.
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Figured there was room to add one more to this great old thread. Besides, the examples that were previously submitted are good for another laugh..
This odd duck was for sale on Ebay UK a while back.
Not really a scroll on this. But probably worth an honorable mention anyway.
Somehow, at first glance, it doesn't really look like a snake.
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That's what happens when Angus Young eats too much chili. The rock n roll is coming out his pores! and...
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I think this is the thread where mandolins go to die.. or it's some kind of purgatory for mandolins the neither heaven nor hell will accept.. I'm laughing and crying all at the same time...
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Hereby & forthwith, any instrument with an odd number of strings shall be considered broken. With regard to mix levels, usually the best approach is treating the mandolin the same as a cowbell.
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Matthew
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Lumpy is an all time classic in this thread IMHO.
Matthew
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I just saw one of these go n eBay for over $400, IIRC. It was calle da Kentucky as well. Hideous.
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Had to nominate this, currently on ebay
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I haven't looked at this thread in over a year ... some of these are really hideous!
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