New creation

[Les Corley]

I'm building a new mandolin based on the Lyon & Healy. The top is carpathian spruce, the back is black walnut & quilted maple,neck hard rock maple. Short neck 10th fret

[JeffD]

ohhh yummy

[Les Corley]

Pics of the plates

[Marty Jacobson]

Nice work!

[Bill Clements]

Keep the pics coming!
Your scroll is very unique!

[Tavy]

Very nice indeed, love these old designs!

How did you do the soundhole inlay? Back in the day they would set the MOP pieces into some sort of mastic-like substance, which no doubt was great when new but goes pretty manky after a 100 or so years

Curiously yours, John.

[billhay4]

I like this and look forward to hearing it.
Bill

[JEStanek]

That's going to be very elegant!

Jamie

[Charles E.]

Love to see a modern twist on a classic design. Keep us posted.

Tavy, "pretty manky"?

[Tavy]

Love to see a modern twist on a classic design. Keep us posted.

Tavy, "pretty manky"?

Cracked, falling apart, not looking good. Sorry, Brit at large

[hank]

Congratulations Wes, Absolutely gorgeous work. The headstock gracefully turning back on itself like fretting fingers or vines organically grown in Art Nouveau. Is your back plate wood combination for tone consideration or visual effect. Are you bracing the same as L&H? Thanks again for sharing, you definitely are walking the wire between craftsmanship and art.

[Jim Garber]

I'm building a new mandolin based on the Lyon & Healy. The top is carpathian spruce, the back is black walnut & quilted maple,neck hard rock maple. Short neck 10th fret

Very cool, Les. Did you work with an original L&H to make your copy? Are you going for the L&H tone as well (plate carving)? I see a few of the L&H clones but often the looks are more cosmetic and the tone is taken from either the Gibson or the modern models.

Also, what scale length are you using?

[Pete Jenner]

Did the L&H mandolins have that riser block, fret maker piece and fretboard extender or is that a concession to Gibson?

[Les Corley]

Hank the back plate combo is for tone, quilted maple has a tendancy to be a little bright & I'm hoping the black walnut will help bring it down a little

[Les Corley]

Theriser block & extension was my choise

[Les Corley]

I'm using a 13 7/8 scale length. I drew my plans from a picture & I'm carving my plates close to the a-4

[Skip Kelley]

Les, that is amazing! Pure art at its best!

[Jim Garber]

I'm using a 13 7/8 scale length. I drew my plans from a picture & I'm carving my plates close to the a-4

Ah, so it is really a Gibson in modernized Lyon & Healy clothes.

[Steve Sorensen]

Lovely.
Steve

[Les Corley]

This is what I'm doing with the peghead, bookmatched black walnut overlay with w/b purfling & pearl inlay

[hank]

This just keeps getting better. Skip, I heard that.

[Charles E.]

Ah, so it is really a Gibson in modernized Lyon & Healy clothes.

Jim, it is a Les Corley, not a Gibson, in L&H clothes.

[Les Corley]

Thanks Charley thats exactly what I was thinking