What year is David Long's? I guess the experiment worked? I had asked Steve a while back and he confirmed my #573 X-braced is a red spruce top. It's also got the sugar maple back and sides from the "D" log.
Is it wrong to love a mandolin ;) On Jun 10, 12:33 pm, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my favorite mandos is the Gil that David Long has. It is built > of red spruce and sugar maple with X-bracing. Steve Gilchrist usually > save the red spruce for his tone bar mandos, but this one was an > experiment. I hear in it that hard-edged red spruce side but with the > percussiveness of the X braces. It really doesn't sound like any of > the other Gil F5's. If David could just keep the curls glued on > it...Ha! > > Of course, I recall having the same affliction earlier in the year. > > Bugs > > On Jun 10, 10:07 am, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jonas, > > No sir, I had to put it up on blocks for a while to secure a loan. > > Apparently it's good for more than making music. <G> > > Po'tater > > > On Jun 9, 8:41 am, Jonas Mattebo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Was is stolen or what? > > > > /Jonas > > > > 2010/6/9 Petimar <[email protected]> > > > > > Congrats on getting the F4 back, its an awesome instrument! > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > "Taterbugmando" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]<taterbugmando%[email protected]> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
