The first few seconds is acoustic then volume up and fiddling with the tone controls.

Build #27, Cèilidh (pronounced kay-lee), a mandocello/bouzouki sort of thing. 8 strings (4 unison courses), 25.5" scale, 22 frets, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard is made from an MGB 6-string blank, body is a book box from Hobby Lobby. The pickup is MGB's new Hot Tuna humbucker and the controls are volume, coil split, treble cut, bass cut, mid cut. Currently tuned modal D (ADAD).

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Comment by Korrigan on December 22, 2018 at 4:16pm

Thanks Bear! It's a magical beast indeed.

I'm in the middle of restringing it for E major tuning (E G# B E) so here's a tip for anybody using this kind of mandolin bridge... Don't waste your time looking for loop-end strings. If you are careful, you can use a pair of pliers to crush and remove the ball from a ball-end string... leaving you with a loop-end string.  : )

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on December 22, 2018 at 1:00pm

Never seen such a beast as this before. Sounds fantastic I must add! Awesome to see and hear something out of the ordinary. Love it. Merry Christmas to you too. 

Comment by Korrigan on December 20, 2018 at 9:38am

Thanks Derek, Jim and Richard!

Comment by Richard Sundberg on December 20, 2018 at 4:26am
Your knocking it out of the park with your building skills, and playing if I do say say! She’s a beauty!
Comment by Jim Morris on December 20, 2018 at 12:40am

Wonderful unique sound! Well done!

Comment by Derek Rose on December 19, 2018 at 3:40pm

Gorgeous build and fine sounding!

Comment by Korrigan on December 19, 2018 at 3:23pm

I wouldn't go so far as to call it music but... thanks Nancy!

Comment by Nancy kat on December 19, 2018 at 6:04am

Merry Christmas! Love the music and guit! Meowww^..^

Comment by Korrigan on December 18, 2018 at 1:31am

Thanks Dennis!

I've seen you builds and for sure you could build one. If I let lack of skill stop me I wouldn't build anything. lol

Just make sure you use a neck with a truss rod. Even though I like light string tension I've got about 145lbs on it.

Comment by Korrigan on December 17, 2018 at 12:28pm

Thanks guys!

A song Brian? I wish!

I gave up trying to come up with a song and just hit record and goofed around.  :D

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