re SOS zouks, they sound as good as they look, Dan plays one on his Shatter the calm CD.
Keith
re SOS zouks, they sound as good as they look, Dan plays one on his Shatter the calm CD.
Keith
Mountains are holy places
and beauty is free (runrig)
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
This is the gallery image of that same bouzouki:
Or here's a much larger version (link)
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???
I posted this one while it was in the booth. Here it is buffed out.
..mahvalous...simply mahvalous....great Job Jim.
wood......
Rose mandos and the tone they produce
wood
Rose mandos and the tone they produce
wood
Rose mandos and the tone they produce
...that second pic would be the wood on my new Rose...aint it sexy? Thanks Darby
nothing compared to the others on this thread, but i like my A9:
MandoLessons: Free Online Mandolin Lessons
Velocipede: My Fiddle Tune Duo
Old Time Mandolin: Solo Old Time Mandolin Album
..looks nice Phish...Im gonna have to get me an A model someday...
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
Gavin Baird
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This one is the F4 in Quilted Maple..G
Gavin Baird
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..very, very nice Gavin...great looking stuff..
This one is the "Peter Ostroushko Edition"...All are finished in Varnish..G
Gavin Baird
http://www.sheba.ca
Should have used a larger picture for them all..larger F5 back
Gavin Baird
http://www.sheba.ca
The wood in this thread has Yellowstone National Park jealous. #My humble mando's first back:
Michael Kelly Legacy O Antique Sunset.
Man in the bright sun a weird figure surfaced on my mandolin.
Shalom,Yonkle (JD)
I think I am absolutely terrified
first the disney small world pic, now this!
beginning to wonder about mando pickers in general (myself included)
Lightly flamed maple and black "imperial" Brazilian rosewood, here's my 2004 Faria, a reproduction of a 1736 Smorsone:
My ca. 1835 anon, again in maple and rosewood:
This weirdo is a ca. 1970 anonymous reproduction of a 16th-century vihuela de mano:
Alright, straying further from mandolin, but here's my current favorite guitar, a ca. 1850 Gebrüder Placht from Pest, Hungary:
Breedlove C12MP in quilted Maple
Leon
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