Thread: The Mandowinner!

while im not into music i can spot a nice piece of wood work,
this looks great well done.

does it sound good?

Cheers Ian

Rob,

Nice again! What are you doing with your collection of electric Mandos?

What sort of joint did you use at the body/neck join?

On another tangent, and following Micks' question last time, I am not sure that the absence of the double strings is absolutely necessary.

Most manufacturers including Ovation make a number of electric/acoustic mandos with the full string set, and I have a crappy Valencia electric which can be made to sound OK with the right gear, although I have made so many modifications to the action that it's not really a Valencia any more!

So when I build a real electric one, 8 strings or 4?

Cheers,

P

Hiya

>does it sound good?
>
It sounds ok. Bit better for lead/melody than rhythm, but played through a chorus pedal it's pretty cool!

>What are you doing with your collection of electric Mandos?
>
I sold a couple on eBay just to test the waters. A couple are for me, another is a pressie for a mate.

>What sort of joint did you use at the body/neck join?
>
Just a bolt on. If it's good enough for 99% of solidbody guitars ever made it's good enough for me! One day I'll try a set neck, but I'm still yet to be convinced that the Gibson vs Fender thing isn't more to do with timber and pickups and string break angle than neck joint.


>On another tangent, and following Micks' question last
>time, I am not sure that the absence of the double
>strings is absolutely necessary.
>
I'm going to try an 8 string soon, just to see how it sounds. The bridge is the issue from a manufacturing point of view, but I'm thinking of making something really agricultural and clunky, like the original Fender Telecaster and Mandocaster ones. Intonation should be exactly the same for each string pair so I should be able to have one length adjustment for each pair.

>So when I build a real electric one, 8 strings or 4?
>
Start with a four. They're not hard to build. Make two bodies and two necks, once the first one's done try the 8 string. The biggest cost is tuners and frets. Remember you effectively get two pickups from one P-Bass set, and if you used the same tuners (2 sets of 3+3) you can make two mandos (4 + 8) from two sets of tuners.