New Design Mandolin by Barry Guest

[Baz1000]

Thought I would show this to get some comment. It is designed by using one dimension geometry, a diagram of which is included.

The back, neck and sides is Tasmanian Blackwood.
Top is Queensland maple. Ivoroid binding.
Fingerboard is ebony with MOP dots. MOP Headstock inlay
Scale length 353 mm
Bridge is maple and ebony

[woodturner777]

Beautiful Barry excellent build, love the blackwood.
Regards Bob

[kamusur]

Certainly a stunning design and great workmanship (it looks pretty damned different) how does it sound Barry?

Steve

[Baz1000]

Certainly a stunning design and great workmanship (it looks pretty damned different) how does it sound Barry?

Steve

Steve, I hope I'm not biased, but my appraisal is that it has good sustain, chords really ring. I play traditional Irish jigs and reels as a journeyman and it really is the best I've sounded. I've put a "bridge on bridge" system of bracing in it that I feel makes a big difference to the sustain. (pic attached)

Thanks for your kind words. You too Bob.

[kamusur]

Yeah keep up the good work Barry and i sure would like to hear it play "Master Crowley",my favourite jig/reel.

Steve

[Baz1000]

Yeah keep up the good work Barry and i sure would like to hear it play "Master Crowley",my favourite jig/reel.

Steve

Steve, Master Crowleys....nice reel, but better for a fiddle I reckon.

[Buzza]

I find mandolins too small for me after years of guitar playing, but I often think I would like to have one. Your design, this mandolin, fits min with my idea of a very good design to make it stand out in a crowded stage of mandolin pickers. I like it a lot.

Names being slightly wrong in songs reminds me that sometimes the names of tunes were changed on the trip to the American baclblocks after leaving the U. K. Some were altered ever so slightly.

[Baz1000]

I find mandolins too small for me after years of guitar playing, but I often think I would like to have one. Your design, this mandolin, fits min with my idea of a very good design to make it stand out in a crowded stage of mandolin pickers. I like it a lot.

Names being slightly wrong in songs reminds me that sometimes the names of tunes were changed on the trip to the American baclblocks after leaving the U. K. Some were altered ever so slightly.

This design is built along flat top acoustic guitar lines. It has a spanish heel and similar top bracing (albeit a light bracing due to the "soundpost", or what I like to call "bridge on bridge"). The neck angle is the departure from the acoustic guitar. It is 4.5 degrees, providing a bridge height that is 22 mm.

[kamusur]

I'm with Buzza Bazza I want one! I want one

Steve

[Baz1000]

Ask and ye shall receive! .....for a price <grin>