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    re SOS zouks, they sound as good as they look, Dan plays one on his Shatter the calm CD.
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    Yes.. Steve's stuff is out of this world, tone and looks. I reluctantly sold my big zook last year as the long scale was not right for some hand pain I've developed from all these darn computers.

    This is a photo of the inlay that I took once when I had the strings off to adjust the truss rod:




    Here's an image from the CD artwork..



    More of these in larger format are here on my Shatter the Calm page
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    This is the gallery image of that same bouzouki:



    Or here's a much larger version (link)
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    Now that is amazing! I bet you miss that one Dan.
    If F-model mandolins have F-holes then why don't A-model mandolins have A-holes???

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    I posted this one while it was in the booth. Here it is buffed out.
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    ..mahvalous...simply mahvalous....great Job Jim.

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    wood......
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    Rose mandos and the tone they produce

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    Rose mandos and the tone they produce

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    Rose mandos and the tone they produce

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    ...that second pic would be the wood on my new Rose...aint it sexy? Thanks Darby




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    nothing compared to the others on this thread, but i like my A9:
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    ..looks nice Phish...Im gonna have to get me an A model someday...

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    Some shots of the current batch of instruments. They are an F5, F4 and a Peter O A4. The first one is a one piece Birds Eye Maple destined for Washington State..G
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    This one is the F4 in Quilted Maple..G
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    ..very, very nice Gavin...great looking stuff..

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    This one is the "Peter Ostroushko Edition"...All are finished in Varnish..G
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    Should have used a larger picture for them all..larger F5 back
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    The wood in this thread has Yellowstone National Park jealous. #My humble mando's first back:



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    Man in the bright sun a weird figure surfaced on my mandolin.
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    I think I am absolutely terrified

    first the disney small world pic, now this!
    beginning to wonder about mando pickers in general (myself included)

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    Lightly flamed maple and black "imperial" Brazilian rosewood, here's my 2004 Faria, a reproduction of a 1736 Smorsone:
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    My ca. 1835 anon, again in maple and rosewood:
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    This weirdo is a ca. 1970 anonymous reproduction of a 16th-century vihuela de mano:
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    Alright, straying further from mandolin, but here's my current favorite guitar, a ca. 1850 Gebrüder Placht from Pest, Hungary:
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    Breedlove C12MP in quilted Maple

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