Ebony bridges, brass bridge plate and pan head clamping screws, phosphor bronze saddles. Two disc piezo pickups under the bridge plate. Plate shaped to compliment the look of the Rocky Patel box. I must say, it's nice to have a guitar that plays in tune on all strings all the way up the neck.
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;) Truthfully - without a large budget we can only achieve so much visually, but an excellent score can carry it - I got the idea from a guy named George Lucas.
The music production sounds interesting. My line is photography and I am branching out into video, where sound recording is, if anything, more important than the visuals. Look forward to chatting again before long, although my regular return to this site may end up being later rather than sooner. Take care.
John, funny thing is, those reasons you mention are a part of why I don't care for social media.
On top of that, I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to my "online presence" and feel like FB and similar requires I give up too much. And I NEED to stay on task..... LOL!
What I am up to would take us even further off topic for this thread though. Ironically.....
Closest thing relevant to this site is my intense immersion into learning music production. Been absorbed for almost 5 years. That and Roots/Folk/Bluegrass/Americana....... :-)
Can't I persuade you on to FB. Lots of the CBN people are on there. One advantage is that it isn't a focussed group. Quite rightly people expect most of the discussions here to be on-topic. On FB I can find out that Juju likes mountain bikes or Bob Harrison's views on gun control (always good for a heated debate). Incidentally, Mary and I got married in the US earlier this year. We were lucky enough to meet up with Dan Sleep and spent a wonderful day with him and his wife going round Mount Vernon.
If I get any playing videos done I will post them here although I'm not sure how well a video of a shop-bought octave mando would go down here, especially as I would most likely be playing folk or classical (working on a wonderful but super-hard flamenco piece at the moment).
Thanks for the message. I hope you found the pictures and description useful. Weather you are making or playing the main thing is to have fun. and either way you are producing something, which is always good.
Long time indeed. My main instrument is an F style Weber Black Ice octave. I play this at folk events and also in various classical ensembles. doing a lot of small ensemble work from duets with a mandolinist to quartets and also play in the London Mandolin Ensemble. I also have a 1912 Gibson K1 mandocello. I don't play that nearly as much as the octave. As it happens my wife and I were performing at a folk event earlier today. I played both the mando and the cigar box guitar. Are you on FB by any chance?
Thanks Roadkill, very much. And for posting a lot of pictures of the process of building these breathtaking bridges, thank you. It's terrific you are inspired to play now. Right now all I do is build and hardly play. I think playing more will make you an even better builder when you get back to it, which is going to be epic. ;)
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;) Truthfully - without a large budget we can only achieve so much visually, but an excellent score can carry it - I got the idea from a guy named George Lucas.
Nice one Danny.
True. I'm a video editor. I've been hiding my poor editing and graphics work with excellent audio mixing for years. ( I hire people)
The music production sounds interesting. My line is photography and I am branching out into video, where sound recording is, if anything, more important than the visuals. Look forward to chatting again before long, although my regular return to this site may end up being later rather than sooner. Take care.
John, funny thing is, those reasons you mention are a part of why I don't care for social media.
On top of that, I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to my "online presence" and feel like FB and similar requires I give up too much. And I NEED to stay on task..... LOL!
What I am up to would take us even further off topic for this thread though. Ironically.....
Closest thing relevant to this site is my intense immersion into learning music production. Been absorbed for almost 5 years. That and Roots/Folk/Bluegrass/Americana....... :-)
Mark.
Can't I persuade you on to FB. Lots of the CBN people are on there. One advantage is that it isn't a focussed group. Quite rightly people expect most of the discussions here to be on-topic. On FB I can find out that Juju likes mountain bikes or Bob Harrison's views on gun control (always good for a heated debate). Incidentally, Mary and I got married in the US earlier this year. We were lucky enough to meet up with Dan Sleep and spent a wonderful day with him and his wife going round Mount Vernon.
If I get any playing videos done I will post them here although I'm not sure how well a video of a shop-bought octave mando would go down here, especially as I would most likely be playing folk or classical (working on a wonderful but super-hard flamenco piece at the moment).
Would love to know what you are up to.
Hi Danny.
Thanks for the message. I hope you found the pictures and description useful. Weather you are making or playing the main thing is to have fun. and either way you are producing something, which is always good.
All the best.
I do not do Facebook, but I would love to hear any of that!
Both very nice looking instruments! Envy. I cant imagine finding something like that Gibson, at least not at a price I could justify.
Been tossing around thoughts of building a Mandola or Mandocello for a while now however.
Hi Mark.
Long time indeed. My main instrument is an F style Weber Black Ice octave. I play this at folk events and also in various classical ensembles. doing a lot of small ensemble work from duets with a mandolinist to quartets and also play in the London Mandolin Ensemble. I also have a 1912 Gibson K1 mandocello. I don't play that nearly as much as the octave. As it happens my wife and I were performing at a folk event earlier today. I played both the mando and the cigar box guitar. Are you on FB by any chance?
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