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Resurrecting Old Mandolins, Part 1
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2023
- Looking for instruments I could use in historical reenactments, I picked up a 120-year-oldish bowl-back mandolin and tried to clean it up and get it into playable condition. While I was waiting for polish to set, etc., I started working on a basket-case A-style mandolin. So the series goes back and forth between the two.
Love your phone on the wall...ah the good old days! I hate cell phones! Very entertaining video...I just got a 1920 round back...after tweaking it plays nice and sounds good!
I have also acquired a mid-century "Domeback" that has a deeper back than a type A but a wider format than a venetian-style roundback. It looks like a little lute and is a lot of fun to play.
@@paulracemusic is there a video on it? Sounds cool....
@@markgrafstrom1704, sorry, not yet!
@@paulracemusic Ok I'll keep an eye out for it in case you post something on it.
I had access to a cheap, almost unplayable Harmony mando back in maybe '72 that belonged to a lady I ran around with for several years. I tried to make it a bit more playable for her to fool with. After we parted ways, I have no idea what she did with it. Maybe it got stored in a basement, but I did figure out how to tune it and play it. I vowed to find a much better instrument someday, which I did in '94 from the old Flatiron factory where I worked for several years. I came out of there with a decent little A-5, which I still have and play to this day at age 76.
sort of chaos tbh. but endearing 😊
Paul, go to the hardware store and get a can of boiled linseed oil. You will use it for furnature, as well as instrument fret boards, and violin finger boards. Wipe on a small amount, then let soak in about 5 minutes. Take a clean paper towel and wipe it all completely off. If you let it stay, it can turn gummy. BLO is cheaper than other fancy stuff and does a good job.
Robert, thanks, I've used that as well. For furniture, mostly. I have a number of REAL basket cases, so I go with the "hard stuff." It only takes a little so the one bottle will last me a long time.
Hoe Cakes, as it turns out are simple cornbread and were originally cooked on the blade of a hoe. I didn't know that this morning...and now I do! Ya gotta love folk music as an entertaining educational tool.
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Parece mandolina de Checoslovaquia (cremona) por los adornos...antes de 1993
Juan, It could be, but I've seen similar instruments from the US, so I won't make any claims.
@@paulracemusic No, es solo un comentario. Yo tengo una mandolina fabricada en Checoslovaquia (país que ya no existe, ahora es República Checa y Eslovaquia) y es muy parecida a la que se muestra con adornos de flores blancas y fondo negro. Yo tengo 40 años con ella, pero es de más antigüedad. Saludos.
Btw have ever seen one with a "Waverly" label inside? Mine has one but I can't find anything telling me what it is.
Waverly used to make hardware like banjo tailpieces and mandolin tuners. I can't find that they ever made banjos or mandolins, but many companies used their parts, and it's possible that Waverly is the only brand name on some of those. Here's a quote from a banjo forum: "Virtually all the metal parts for nearly all the East coast banjo makers were supplied by one company -- Waverly Music Products of New York, NY, in business from before the turn of the century until the 1970s when they were acquired by Stewart-MacDonald of Athens, OH. I interviewed Waverly's then owner, a Mr. Lomb -- son and grandson of the founders, early in 1970 when he had put the company up for sale. He told me that Waverly, for whom he had worked since his pre-teens, had provided most of the metal parts and accessories to the banjo makers. In his workshop he showed me many patterns, cutters, tools, and dies used in making the nuts for Vega, Gibson, Bacon, Paramount and all the standard nuts we associate with the large makers. Waverly also made many, varied, stretcher bands, the simple brass hoops used for tone rings on the less expensive instruments, and some of the components that went into the more sophisticated tone rings. They also made the various shoes and hooks, from the Cobra hooks used on early Fairbanks to the modern flat and round hooks. Most of the tailpieces and many of the tuners also came from Waverly. That there were others making some hardware is indisputed, but Waverly made most of it. I don't know if they made the Whyte Laydie and Tubaphone assemblies or if some of the parts were made locally and then assembled at Vega -- the most likely scenario." Hope this helps!
@@paulracemusic thanks Paul. It was kind of rough when I got it but it's as nice as it can be after some work. Matched the bridge, leveled the frets and new tuners. The intonation isn't perfect but it plays ok. I just got an old Epiphone Mando that's much nicer and plays better. I just couldn't figure out why it had a tag inside that said Waverly....l love your humor btw. Some of things you say crack me up...like the story about the one in the attic that you left....a had to laugh 😂😂😂 thanks again....I love your videos!
Compensated bridge, what do you mean by that?
Because the strings on a fretted instrument are different widths, some strings go a little sharp when you fret them. The third string on a banjo, for example. So a compensated bridge isn't straight across, it zig-zags slightly so that the scale length of those troublesome notes is slightly longer than the scale length of the others. On many electrics, you can adjust the scale length of each string separately. Imagine if the bridge of your "Tele" was one piece but kept the same shape where the strings cross it.