aerohead Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 Has anyone had their G.A.S. mutate into Mandolin Acquisition Syndrome? I have recently had the pleasure of playing an F5G and it has flared up my A.S.After buying my SJ200 in late spring of 2012 I immediately started saving to buy my next everyday everywhere guitar. I was leaning towards a new Guild or a J45. That was until my F5G encounter. Does anyone have any experience with one of these mandolins or one similar?I might have to hurry up and buy a new Guild or J45 before I dig too deep into the details of this F5G wood chopper.
Dave F Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 I've had the same MAS. My F5L was ordered this past January, it's a couple weeks overdue.
aerohead Posted April 24, 2014 Author Posted April 24, 2014 1398295310[/url]' post='1512735']I've had the same MAS. My F5L was ordered this past January, it's a couple weeks overdue. Wow that is definitely a beauty! I'm sure it will be worth the wait!
mike tango Posted April 24, 2014 Posted April 24, 2014 I had M.A.S. for a while but I'm cured. Bought a western classic and ordered an ES 195.
Jayyj Posted April 24, 2014 Posted April 24, 2014 Had an extended period of MAS a few years back. First a guitar shaped Italian one, the type that usually has a neoclassical painting on the back, cute but impossible to tune. Then came a '30s Kalamazoo KM11, which I bought on a whim because it matched my L00 and which sounded great but had a deeply V'd neck that caused my hand to cramp. After that I bought an Eastman 815, which was beautiful to play but sounded pretty thin compared to the Kalamazoo. I've played a lot of Eastmans over the years and the mandolins seem to vary more than any other other brand I can think of. I've played some awesome cheaper models that this 815 didn't come close to. Oh well, you live and learn... Eventually I decided cheap mandolins just weren't going to cut it, and spent a small fortune on a 1911 blacktop F2, which is absolutely beautiful, perfect in every way. It wouldn't suit a bluegrass player, but a lot of what I play on mandolin is classical stuff - I'm a violinist and mandolin is a great way to practice quietly in the evenings - and it's ideally suited to Bach partitas and the like, very sweet and sonorous. Blacktop F2s and F4s have to be the coolest looking mandolins out there as well, very gothic looking! If only I could afford a matching blacktop mandola... so I guess my MAS hasn't been entirely cured!
zombywoof Posted April 24, 2014 Posted April 24, 2014 Yeah, lived through that a plague. Went the usual Gibson route for a couple of years but then found what would finally do the trick for me - a 1940 Strad-O-Lin. Kinda of a mystery mando as nobody is really sure who made them. But story is they were so good even Bill Monroe kept one around.
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