I really love this instrument, regardless of the bad press it gets on Mando sites. My current instrument-of-choice is a Johnson MA-550 which I usually play with a capo on the 5th fret - a sliding capo that makes key-changes a snap. I assume it is tuned CCGGDDAA, so i can see myself playing it with a capo. I may have bitten off more than I can chew on this one. Well 'tis the season and sometime tomorrow another Ebay purchase will arrive - an Ovation MC868.

I never got used to the wider neck when transitioning from a bouzouki or mandolin. I also ebay-sold a Strad-o-line (German-sold, Dutch Made Octave-Mandolin with a modified guitar neck. I just moved an Ovation MCS148 and an Ovation MM68 on Ebay (taking a loss on the MCS148 but making up for it on the MM68 - I wasn't pleased with the acoustic sound of either and the Mandobird was more fun to play electrically. It should arrive tomorrow, again an inexpensive e-mando that I hope to have a lot of fun with.

My son has decided it's his so I recently ebay-purchased an Eastman Mandocaster. The action is excellent, easy on the fingers. While not the best sounding instrument, it is great fun to play especially using special effects on an amp. Thank you, any ideas would be appreciated as well.įollowing Martin's lead, I also just forwarded the email to eBay's fraud unit. I dont think the customers would be willing to wait 2 weeks for this. I would like to have them custamized for the customer's request,but that means I would have to have the company make it,and then ship the item to me,and then I ship it to the customer. I realy dont know if i should leave them with no name or not. I was thinking of naming the guitars after me. There is no specific name brand for the Mandolins because they are custom made to whatever I want to brand them as. I will also put more deatailed pics up on the next one. If you have a specific color other than this one that you might be interested please let me know. Once they are finished, I will have them relised on Ebay. This Mandolin is already in the process of being purchased, but I am having 3 more made,and it takes about 2 weeks to have them made from scratch. I have these custom made for me from a company in China,and a company in AU. I asked them specifcally about where it was made, what the neck widths were on each neck, if they could send me some closeup pics of the bridges and pickups, and a few more miscellaneous questions, none of which they really answered in this reply:

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