crust Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 dig it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 i'm diggin' it !! in my early teens I played a mando along w/guitars....Dad & I each had 1 of each. made the mistake of leaving it behind when I moved out @ 16.....so he sold it. never had one as cool as a Teleolin though.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayyj Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 I've seen that model mandolin with a few things on the headstock: Revelation, Hutchins, Airline all spring to mind, so must be a Chinese factory that cranks them out for whoever wants to commission a batch of them. It's a nice enough instrument if set up well, and very cool. Since it's the Epiphone forum, I feel obliged to post my own electric mandolin, refinished in Pelham Blue nitro: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted September 22, 2013 Author Share Posted September 22, 2013 absolutely beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayyj Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Thank you. Actually it has a big sister as well, a Pelham Blue tenor guitar (basically a short scale four string guitar tuned in fifths like a mandolin). Gibson made electric tenors in the 60s but they're rare and expensive when they occasionally do show up, so I went the DIY route: this one started life as a roughed out SG body blank from the Samick factory, so in another life could have ended up an Epiphone, and I re-profiled it and made the neck from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 cool looking instrument. I have never attempted making a guitar from scratch, maybe some day. Any insight as to how you made the neck ? Again, nice looking rig and tenor SG there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 I don't think this Mando-Caster has anything to do with the "Maestro by Gibson" brand Possibly (??) , I didn't do much research, but the little that I did, didn't turn up much information about what instruments "Maestro" actually make, other than student violins (right now, and in the past). I wonder if there is a 2013/2014 Maestro instrument catalog available online, or anywhere for that matter ?? Still enjoying it. Gibson, any further comments ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I've seen that model mandolin with a few things on the headstock: Revelation, Hutchins, Airline all spring to mind, so must be a Chinese factory that cranks them out for whoever wants to commission a batch of them. It's a nice enough instrument if set up well, and very cool. Since it's the Epiphone forum, I feel obliged to post my own electric mandolin, refinished in Pelham Blue nitro: sha-wiiiiiiing !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Zeplin Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Zeplin Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Since it's the Epiphone forum, I feel obliged to post my own electric mandolin, refinished in Pelham Blue nitro: Nitro on an Epi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayyj Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 There's a guy local to me who mixes his own nitro colours and sells it in spray can form. With the Mandobird I just knocked back the original poly to give the new lacquer something to adhere to then sprayed over the top. I wasn't fussed about the tonal effects of nitro vs poly, particularly on a cheap electric mandolin, just always fancied a Pelham Blue Firebird and this seemed like a fun way to get one. As far as making a neck was concerned, I got a friend with a router to cut the truss rod channel, then roughed it out using a band saw and did the rest with plains, spoke shave, rasps and scraper. There's a Rosewood headstock veneer on it, and I bought a pre slotted fingerboard sawn off at I think the second fret to get a 22" scale length. Takes a while but I don't think it's particularly difficult if you go slowly, and it means you can get it exactly the dimensions you want rather than buy an off the peg finished neck - not that anywhere sells tenor guitar necks that I know of anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/Maestro/ B) now I want a blue SG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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