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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: WezV on December 19, 2010, 05:24:16 PM

Title: MandoSG
Post by: WezV on December 19, 2010, 05:24:16 PM
just got this back from the sprayer:

(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/WezV/new/MSG2.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/WezV/new/MSG1.jpg)

technically its an Octave 12 electric guitar, but has been named the MandoSG.  It has a vintage rickenbacker pickup - but is recessed in a route that will also accept a P-90, sounds pretty sweet as it is though

its the little brother to this
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/WezV/complete%20guitars/222.jpg)
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: roland_rat on December 19, 2010, 05:28:05 PM
A little different, looks nice. I would be keen to here how it sounds.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: Philly Q on December 19, 2010, 05:32:41 PM
I don't know what I'd do with it, but it's cute as anything!  :D
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: FernandoDuarte on December 19, 2010, 05:34:50 PM
Awesome! :D
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: gwEm on December 19, 2010, 05:41:13 PM
I don't know what I'd do with it, but it's cute as anything!  :D

And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon

And where are they now?
The little children of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here... tonight
 :lol: :lol:



cool instrument wez
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: MrBump on December 19, 2010, 05:43:28 PM
Wez, I've loved practically every guitar related thing I've seen you make.

However, that is an abomination!

It's like Mini-Me in Austin Powers!!!

(love the "proper" SG though...)

Mark.

Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: Philly Q on December 19, 2010, 05:50:59 PM
I don't know what I'd do with it, but it's cute as anything!  :D

And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon

And where are they now?
The little children of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here... tonight
 :lol: :lol:



 :lol: :lol:


Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: WezV on December 19, 2010, 06:13:47 PM
nice one gwem :)

bump - if you want to see an abomination look at the vox mando-guitars

(http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys498pom/guitars/guitar_pix/60s_Vox_12string_MandoGuitar.jpg)

duesenberg do a nice version
(http://www.300guitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Mando_b2.jpg)
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: tekbow on December 19, 2010, 06:35:22 PM
I don't know what I'd do with it, but it's cute as anything!  :D

And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon

And where are they now?
The little children of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here... tonight
 :lol: :lol:



cool instrument wez


There was a stonehenge monument in danger of being crushed. By a dwarf.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: roland_rat on December 19, 2010, 07:35:55 PM
abomination is harsh if it sound good then it is a winner :lol:
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: HTH AMPS on December 19, 2010, 07:43:52 PM
love the full size SG, very John Birch.  I know I keep threatening this, but I'm gonna have an SG off you some day Wez - you seem to get the cut 'just right'; like the old ones.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: MrBump on December 19, 2010, 08:11:11 PM
nice one gwem :)

bump - if you want to see an abomination look at the vox mando-guitars

(http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys498pom/guitars/guitar_pix/60s_Vox_12string_MandoGuitar.jpg)

duesenberg do a nice version
(http://www.300guitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Mando_b2.jpg)

Yup, they're both pretty vile too!
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: Telerocker on December 20, 2010, 12:15:42 AM
Cool!
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: AndyR on December 20, 2010, 07:21:39 AM
I think it looks pretty cool as well, Wez :D

Not sure I'd ever go for one though, I'd be more likely to find a use for a "real" acoustic mandolin.

Funnily enough, for some reason I don't even regard the Vox as an "abomination". I think it's got something to do with "I'm making a sound you can't get out of your strat/prs/lp/etc... I get it from THIS... HA! ... I look cool because I sound so cool, you losers..." :lol:
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: MisterMuncher on December 20, 2010, 08:41:42 AM
Goin' To My Home Town, anyone?
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: AndyR on December 20, 2010, 08:50:01 AM
Goin' To My Home Town, anyone?

+1

Exactly :D

Saw him do it 4 or 5 times. Before I saw it first time, if you'd said 1 mandolin, 1 bass and a drummer could rock like that I'd have just laughed... I even learnt to play mandolin in the early 80s because of it, but I never owned own of my own.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: MrBump on December 20, 2010, 08:58:18 AM
Wez, is that "big" SG all your own work, or a pimped Gibson?

Mark.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: WezV on December 20, 2010, 09:49:19 AM
Wez, is that "big" SG all your own work, or a pimped Gibson?

Mark.

all my own

its a laminated, carbon fibre reinforced through neck with carved away (john birch style) heel, 25.5" scale and 24 frets
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: MrBump on December 20, 2010, 11:03:40 AM
Wez, is that "big" SG all your own work, or a pimped Gibson?

Mark.

all my own

its a laminated, carbon fibre reinforced through neck with carved away (john birch style) heel, 25.5" scale and 24 frets

It's awesome - just my kind of SG.  Looks evil.

(and I'm not just saying that because I was so rude about the little runt that you created...)
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: AndyR on December 20, 2010, 11:41:08 AM
(and I'm not just saying that because I was so rude about the little runt that you created...)

:lol:

Are you sure you haven't just slipped into "lying-to-relatives" mode, ready for trouble-free christmas festivities?
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: Philly Q on December 20, 2010, 11:43:34 AM
Are you sure you haven't just slipped into "lying-to-relatives" mode, ready for trouble-free christmas festivities?

Ah, that doesn't only happen in my family, then?  :lol:
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: PhilKing on December 21, 2010, 04:36:36 PM
It looks great Wez.  I have lots of things ready to try it on.  Just in case people didn't realise, it's a short scale 12 string guitar, not an 8 string like a mandolin.  I am thinking that it will be great for songs like Gallows Pole and some English folk that I wanted to do.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: WezV on December 21, 2010, 06:04:46 PM
yep,

12 strings tuned an octave higher than a standard 12 string guitar... and it does do E-standard tuning too, although i did have a g-octave string snap on me twice now.  (since this is 14 1/4" scale thats the equivilent of tuning the high e on a 28.5" scale up to G - so i wasnt surprised both times it happened to me! - just testing its limits)

It will work tuned in unison with the main string or all tuned down to D- standard.   And this is 1 1/2" shorter scale length than most mando-guitars, god knows what the tension is like on them!
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: WezV on December 26, 2010, 06:46:59 PM
just a little test clip with bad playing ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjqRSezj1xI&hd=1
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: sgmypod on December 26, 2010, 07:12:48 PM
lovin yours and the dusey
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: marantz1300 on December 26, 2010, 08:18:32 PM
I like that little sucker.
Title: Re: MandoSG
Post by: FernandoDuarte on December 26, 2010, 09:02:16 PM
Cool tone!