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AndyR

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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2010, 08:50:01 AM »
Goin' To My Home Town, anyone?

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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.
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2010, 08:58:18 AM »
Wez, is that "big" SG all your own work, or a pimped Gibson?

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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #17 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

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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #18 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...)
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #19 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?
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #20 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:
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #21 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.
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #22 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!

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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #23 on: December 26, 2010, 06:46:59 PM »
just a little test clip with bad playing ;)
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #24 on: December 26, 2010, 07:12:48 PM »
lovin yours and the dusey
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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2010, 08:18:32 PM »
I like that little sucker.

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Re: MandoSG
« Reply #26 on: December 26, 2010, 09:02:16 PM »
Cool tone!