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J. Hayes · January 13th, 2011, 09:26 AM

I saw a thread on another Forum with some great mandolin photos so I thought I'd start a similar one here. How 'bout posting some shots of your favorite mandolin(s). Here's mine:

The first is my old F-style, it's a natural finish with an ebony fretboard and an ebony Fishman bridge with a built in piezo. I've started collecting some autographs on it including...Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Osborne, Rhonda Vincent, Jesse McReynolds, Roni Stoneman, Leona Williams, Joe Hoppel (DJ Hall of Famer), and 70's artist Bobby G. Rice.........

Next is my old (MIJ) Epiphone A-Style. It's all beat to crap as it's been a workhorse since I bought it in SoCal over thirty years ago. I've experimented with all types of pickup configurations on this instrument but it really sounds great acoustically so I'm just going to use it for that. I've recently done a session with this mando and it sounded great.........

Lastly is my solid body Epiphone "Mando-Bird" eight stringer. This is a great conversation piece if there ever was one! Just for fun I took this to a bluegrass jam along with a small Roland "Cube" amp. I got some horrified looks at first but things went better after a while............Here are the shots....JH in Va.

Bob Mc · January 13th, 2011, 09:50 AM

Mine is.

Tried to find a better one for the $125 I paid for it, and cannot.

Mine has hog b/s.

GregB · January 13th, 2011, 09:59 AM

I don't have a picture of my personal instrument handy. But it's the same model as this photo from Breedlove's website:

It's a KO style and I love it. I own 7 or 8 guitars but only one mandolin because it does everything I need it to do. The Oval hole and X bracing give it more of a warm, jazzy midrange chunk sound rather than a bluegrass "crack" sound and I will admit that my bluegrass chopping sound is not as bright as an F5. But it excels at playing Gypsy jazz, David Grisman tunes and Bach preludes.

It's so nice that I honestly don't have G.A.S. over any other mandolin. The most I'd do to it is to change the tail piece since mine doesn't have the cast tailpiece that the one in this picture has, it has the standard old style bent sheet metal tail piece.

Mojohand40 · January 13th, 2011, 10:01 AM

my Baby...

another shot..

I also got a old Epiphone MM-30 that I bought in 1998. Don't have any pictures, but it ain't a bad Mando. It seems to have aged well.

Dave Hicks · January 13th, 2011, 12:00 PM

Flatiron A5 Jr (1985)

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goldtopper · January 13th, 2011, 04:35 PM

I play a Loar.

NYbill · January 13th, 2011, 04:58 PM

I started out by making my own "A" style mando (it has a matching bouzouki big brother. I was getting into Irish music at the time).

A year or two later I purchased a "F" style Michael Kelly Dragonfly Custom II.

FiddlinJim · January 13th, 2011, 05:04 PM

Sorry for the website photo but this is my J. Bovier electric 5-string.

tdowns · January 13th, 2011, 11:13 PM

Man, that's an incredible autograph collection. Amazing.

Here's my lil ol Kentucky KM-630.

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

wshelley · January 13th, 2011, 11:35 PM

My Kentucky KM-162

ROADMAN · January 14th, 2011, 12:15 AM

05 ..Michael Kelly Legacy..

twintwelve · January 14th, 2011, 12:21 AM

Man, I had an Epi MM-30 that a sold a few years back to help pay for Christmas-you cats are giving me the urge to get back into it. Just what I need, mandolin GAS!!

MickM · January 14th, 2011, 12:27 AM

F5 Style from Stefan Passernig, Austin, TX. The A style mandolin and the mandola are both "Old Wave" instruments from Bill Bussmann in Caballo, NM.

J. Hayes · January 14th, 2011, 07:42 AM

F-style mandolin for just a couple of hundred or so, I believe it's a "Rogue" brand of something like that. Has anyone seen or tried one of those? For that price I don't think it could to good. Somewhere near the late seventies or early eighties I did however buy a Harmony F-style that sold new for $149. It wasn't much acoustically so I electrified it until the truss rod bit the big one when I was trying to adjust it. I wound up making a clock out of it which didn't work to well as when it ticked, the body of the mandolin amplified the ticking big time so I had to take the battery out of it and just let it hang on the wall.....Here's a shot of it......JH in Va.

studio1087 · January 14th, 2011, 08:02 AM

Sigma......

dmarg1045 · January 14th, 2011, 09:40 AM

Ellis

Fender

RevMike · January 14th, 2011, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J. Hayes

F-style mandolin for just a couple of hundred or so, I believe it's a "Rogue" brand of something like that. Has anyone seen or tried one of those?

I have a Rogue that my wife bought me. I learned (what little I know) on it. Its not great, but its not horrible either. I use it for one song a year..at Christmas when my Church Choir sings "Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle". Otherwise I play my mandobird.

johnporter · January 14th, 2011, 10:09 AM

Fender,of course.

NYbill · January 14th, 2011, 01:41 PM

Oh yea, I forgot about the old bowl back. My parents found this in the attic of the first house they bought (I was an infant at the time). When I got older I fixed it up. But, it doesn't play that great. Its just a wall hanger.

I've never been able to find out much information on it. I don't know who made it or how old it is. (If anyone thinks whey have seen one like this, or knows some names I might be able to google do tell.)

Del Pickup · January 14th, 2011, 02:53 PM

Got this a few years ago and have managed to wrangle some tunes out of it!

January 13th, 2011, 09:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
J. Hayes Friend of Leo's Join Date: May 2005 Location: Virginia Beach, Va. Age: 73 Posts: 2,506	Post a picture of your mandolin(s)..... I saw a thread on another Forum with some great mandolin photos so I thought I'd start a similar one here. How 'bout posting some shots of your favorite mandolin(s). Here's mine: The first is my old F-style, it's a natural finish with an ebony fretboard and an ebony Fishman bridge with a built in piezo. I've started collecting some autographs on it including...Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Osborne, Rhonda Vincent, Jesse McReynolds, Roni Stoneman, Leona Williams, Joe Hoppel (DJ Hall of Famer), and 70's artist Bobby G. Rice......... Next is my old (MIJ) Epiphone A-Style. It's all beat to crap as it's been a workhorse since I bought it in SoCal over thirty years ago. I've experimented with all types of pickup configurations on this instrument but it really sounds great acoustically so I'm just going to use it for that. I've recently done a session with this mando and it sounded great......... Lastly is my solid body Epiphone "Mando-Bird" eight stringer. This is a great conversation piece if there ever was one! Just for fun I took this to a bluegrass jam along with a small Roland "Cube" amp. I got some horrified looks at first but things went better after a while............Here are the shots....JH in Va. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Ralph Mooney rules!!

January 13th, 2011, 09:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
Bob Mc Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Mo'town NJ Posts: 2,547	Is your MIJ Epi a MM30? Mine is. Tried to find a better one for the $125 I paid for it, and cannot. Mine has hog b/s. __________________ All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out. Mark Twain

January 13th, 2011, 09:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
GregB Tele-Holic Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Colfax Ca. Posts: 909	I don't have a picture of my personal instrument handy. But it's the same model as this photo from Breedlove's website: It's a KO style and I love it. I own 7 or 8 guitars but only one mandolin because it does everything I need it to do. The Oval hole and X bracing give it more of a warm, jazzy midrange chunk sound rather than a bluegrass "crack" sound and I will admit that my bluegrass chopping sound is not as bright as an F5. But it excels at playing Gypsy jazz, David Grisman tunes and Bach preludes. It's so nice that I honestly don't have G.A.S. over any other mandolin. The most I'd do to it is to change the tail piece since mine doesn't have the cast tailpiece that the one in this picture has, it has the standard old style bent sheet metal tail piece. __________________ I hope the aliens judge us by the fact that we have television. Not by what we put on television.

January 13th, 2011, 10:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
Mojohand40 Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: manassas,va Posts: 1,524 4 Photos	my Baby... another shot.. I also got a old Epiphone MM-30 that I bought in 1998. Don't have any pictures, but it ain't a bad Mando. It seems to have aged well. __________________ ------------------------------------------* http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music

January 13th, 2011, 12:00 PM	#5 (permalink)
Dave Hicks Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Northeastern Indiana Posts: 901	Flatiron A5 Jr (1985) Ryder EM 44 (200... 5?)

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January 13th, 2011, 04:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
goldtopper Friend of Leo's Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell Age: 51 Posts: 3,476	I play a Loar. __________________ Sent From Uranus

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NYbill Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: New York Posts: 406	I started out by making my own "A" style mando (it has a matching bouzouki big brother. I was getting into Irish music at the time). A year or two later I purchased a "F" style Michael Kelly Dragonfly Custom II. Attached Thumbnails

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FiddlinJim Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Seee-attle Age: 53 Posts: 756	Sorry for the website photo but this is my J. Bovier electric 5-string. Attached Thumbnails __________________ --- "Speak English Doc, we ain't scientists!" ---

January 13th, 2011, 11:13 PM	#9 (permalink)
tdowns Friend of Leo's Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Wylie, TX US Posts: 3,519	Man, that's an incredible autograph collection. Amazing. Here's my lil ol Kentucky KM-630. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE __________________ Best regards, Terry Downs http://terrydownsmusic.com Equine quadrupeds may be coaxed to the reference of specific gravity but may not be compelled to imbibe thereof.

January 13th, 2011, 11:35 PM	#10 (permalink)
wshelley Tele-Holic Join Date: May 2009 Location: Oxford, MS Age: 25 Posts: 731	My Kentucky KM-162

January 14th, 2011, 12:15 AM	#11 (permalink)
ROADMAN Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Boundary Bay BC Canada Age: 58 Posts: 5,213	05 ..Michael Kelly Legacy..

January 14th, 2011, 12:21 AM	#12 (permalink)
twintwelve Tele-Holic Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Beltsville, MD Age: 46 Posts: 850	Man, I had an Epi MM-30 that a sold a few years back to help pay for Christmas-you cats are giving me the urge to get back into it. Just what I need, mandolin GAS!! __________________ I've got the sickness...

January 14th, 2011, 12:27 AM	#13 (permalink)
MickM Friend of Leo's Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Hbg. PA Age: 55 Posts: 2,396	F5 Style from Stefan Passernig, Austin, TX. The A style mandolin and the mandola are both "Old Wave" instruments from Bill Bussmann in Caballo, NM. Attached Thumbnails Attached Images

January 14th, 2011, 07:42 AM	#14 (permalink)
J. Hayes Friend of Leo's Join Date: May 2005 Location: Virginia Beach, Va. Age: 73 Posts: 2,506	In the Musician's Friend catalog there's an..... F-style mandolin for just a couple of hundred or so, I believe it's a "Rogue" brand of something like that. Has anyone seen or tried one of those? For that price I don't think it could to good. Somewhere near the late seventies or early eighties I did however buy a Harmony F-style that sold new for $149. It wasn't much acoustically so I electrified it until the truss rod bit the big one when I was trying to adjust it. I wound up making a clock out of it which didn't work to well as when it ticked, the body of the mandolin amplified the ticking big time so I had to take the battery out of it and just let it hang on the wall.....Here's a shot of it......JH in Va. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Ralph Mooney rules!!

January 14th, 2011, 08:02 AM	#15 (permalink)
studio1087 Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: May 2003 Location: Near Milwaukee Age: 48 Posts: 13,774 37 Photos	Sigma...... __________________ John "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Frank Zappa

January 14th, 2011, 09:40 AM	#16 (permalink)
dmarg1045 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 2,789	Ellis Fender __________________ If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. - Yogi Berra Last edited by dmarg1045; January 14th, 2011 at 10:22 AM.

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johnporter Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Granite Falls,NC Posts: 315 3 Photos	Fender,of course. Attached Thumbnails

January 14th, 2011, 01:41 PM	#19 (permalink)
NYbill Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: New York Posts: 406	Oh yea, I forgot about the old bowl back. My parents found this in the attic of the first house they bought (I was an infant at the time). When I got older I fixed it up. But, it doesn't play that great. Its just a wall hanger. I've never been able to find out much information on it. I don't know who made it or how old it is. (If anyone thinks whey have seen one like this, or knows some names I might be able to google do tell.) Attached Thumbnails

January 14th, 2011, 02:53 PM	#20 (permalink)
Del Pickup Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: New Zealand Posts: 3,657 6 Photos	Got this a few years ago and have managed to wrangle some tunes out of it! Attached Thumbnails __________________ Someone told me that my tone is in my underpants. I'm not sure if that's good or bad...... www.reverbnation.com/delthomas1 www.myspace.com/delthomas www.myspace.com/manalishinz

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