![]() Hard to know a price for this - but you are unlikely to find another one so if this appeals to you. Below are two videos from about a decade or so ago - I recorded them on a pretty inferior video camera - you can get an idea. ![]() It is a powerful resonant instrument - but I never mastered the mandocello. Tuners - gold-plated Grovers with pearloid keysĪction at 12th fret C-course ~0.090 inches Head stock - ebony with MOP inlay and plastic binding A custom wide braided leather guitar strap included. The finish and pick guard is also original.Ĭomes with a new, perfect-fitting TKL jumbo hardshell case (used once?). Of course the back and sides are maple with spruce top -fully bound with original finish/binding in great shape. Included custom arm rest that I made from sugar maple and stained to match the sunburst. ![]() I made the bridge via modification of an ebony/bone arch top guitar piece. Likewise the tail piece is custom made with a matching engraved "Gibson" logo. The bound head stock cover plate is ebony with MOP inlays in a Gibson 30s - 40s motif. I don't remember the exactly the radius but it's mild and appropriate for a guitar-size fret board. I also installed a new ebony mandocello fret board and added block inlays (MOP) and guitar-sized evo-frets (ZERO wear). The old break is all but invisible and this is a very strong neck - being perhaps 12 years old with no issues at all. Then I installed two carbon fiber bars and a Stew Mac 2-way truss rod. In 2012, fixed and narrowed to neck to mandocello width (1.5" nut). It suffered a neck injury (60s?) and I ended up with it. This instrument started life in 1942 as a Gibson L-50 arch top guitar. I know that there really is no such thing - but.
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