Kbones F5 deluxe

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:46pm

Here is Kbones 2nd Rose F5

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:48pm

another

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:49pm

again

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:50pm

again..

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:52pm

again...

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:53pm

more wee love pics....

**dj9124** · May-15-2004, 3:54pm

Very very nice Darby! Is that also a fir top?

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:54pm

last.

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 3:59pm

It is a fir top quilted back sides and neck, regular and reverse bound w/ satin finish. should be a killer mando. I can not wait to get it strung up.

Darby

Rosemando@wmconnect.com

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 4:05pm

Must not be too scared of Gibson's warnings concerning the flowerpots (not that I am even wanting a thread discussing it). I would be cautious my friend. Great looking mando though.

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 4:14pm

Kbone requested it I dont think my 8 mandos a year will hurt Gibsons business.

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 4:15pm

No comment!

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 4:16pm

Actually, just one! If I requested the mandolin to be filled with marijuana when you sent it to me would you do it? Now I am done!

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 4:41pm

maybe, depends on how much you wanted in it. I would have to make the rim alot wider though. and you would have to pay the shipping. Really, it is just a mando nothing more or less my point is that dont we have more important things to worry about in todays world than a flower pot?

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 4:54pm

At least a pound! I'll pay shipping!

**rose#1** · May-15-2004, 4:58pm

how about a mandola then.

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 7:32pm

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 7:33pm

Maybe an octave mandolin would be better suited to the project!

**neal** · May-15-2004, 7:42pm

I saw a mandobass once that might work for you Jeremy...

**mandoJeremy** · May-15-2004, 8:28pm

I really don't do that stuff anymore I promise. It was an example only, although in my past I could have easily filled up more than a hundred mandobasses (only in how much I had used not sold!).

**jcs271** · May-15-2004, 10:55pm

Great post fellas,,,Lots of stupid banter about dope AND the flippant disregard for a copyright design. Maybe next time you could just e-mail each other directly amd save us all some embarassment?

**rose#1** · May-16-2004, 8:18am

embarassment? I am very proud of the accomplishments that I have done in the way of building mandolins. it is one of the few things that I can say I have worked extremely hard to perfect and still am working hard at it. as far as the joking around about the dope that is what it is a JOKE! I think everyone gets it but maybe not. why is is that people have to put down the accomplishments of others. I love Gibson mandolins and would never put down there work so why am I getting punished. Pretty much every mandolin on the market is a copy of the loar i.e. graduations, shape, tone bars.... which is a Gibson as for the flower pot I think it is the most elegant inlay out there still, If it offends or is illeagal I have plenty of the rose bud inlays I can use. I am just trying to do my best which is all I can do.

Darby

**Albert Whiting** · May-16-2004, 8:39am

i thought the thread is funny as crap and i don't even smoke dope. nice looking mandolin too. what is the fir top like as far as sound. how does it respond and age.

**mandohusband** · May-16-2004, 10:15am

This is #16. Fir top. I'll also start by saying I have no financial interest, but Darby is a friend and neighbor (and we payed full price for 16). 16 is as loud as our F-9 (which we love). It sustains as well and has a deeper voice. My wife likens the difference in voice to the difference between a mahogony and rosewood Martin Dread'. When I pick up the F-9, I think, "Boy, this thing sounds gooood..." When I pick up the Rose, I think, "Boy, this thing sounds gooood toooo..."

I asked Darby some questions about the longevity/stability of a fir top. Buddy Davis, who's been making fir topped mandolins for a long time, and taught Darby to build, hasn't had a problem (Darby feel free to chime in). I also know how passionate Darby is about building and that he stands behind his product. We're very satisfied with 16.

Last caveat... My wife and I are not professional mandolin players, nor do we play them on TV. If a professional would like to stop by and offer their opinion... well, that would be entertaining, wouldn't it?

Take care,
Shaun

**mandoJeremy** · May-16-2004, 10:31am

Dear jcs271, I am so sorry for the embarassment I caused you. Come on dude, as Darby said, IT IS A JOKE! I am starting to believe that if you just posted a single picture of a mandolin by itself someone would get offended. Remember, JOKE; HAHA!