III mandolin

Peaky! Curly! Maple! (from the upcoming video...) !

Allow me to invite you to what will surely be an incredible night of music story and meaning-making. I saw this group last fall when they came through with their rendition of the Lindworm. This year it is the Firebird and I'm super excited for it! III mandolin owner Alex Harvey is part of the group but I am not sure yet if a triple-i instrument will be in tow. TBD! But the show will be great either way!

eTown Presents "THE FIREBIRD" by The ReMemberers The ReMemberers bring ancient folklore to life in a ritual, immersive performance journey with a theatrical blend of global music, myth and storytelling.

Well I did it again-- sold something and forgot to take a photo with the new owner! iii #72 is a guitar bodied octave mandolin (GBOM) with Engelmann Spruce top, maple back, 20.125" scale and color scheme inspired by the print outs it's next to. This one took a lot of work and a lot more time than I anticipated, but I learned a lot about myself and my process through it and had an incredibly easy-to-work-with customer. Killer sound, I think my favorite sounding octave mandolin ever-- punchy but not too nasally. New owner is thrilled, or perhaps thriiiled. haha, on to the next ones!

I had a most wonderful couple days with the gents and at for the Mandolin Pro Academy. A whole lot of this material is familiar but they took me that much further in my understanding of ways to assess and approach our mandolin builds. Even better, after 2 days of deep technical instruction we went to for the Wednesday night pick and ran into some friends and met new ones and played some too. Overall most excellent, Gratzie, amici miei Italiani!

That Colorado sun was really doing nice things to the colors on this octave mandolin recently! It's going to it's new home at the end of the week! I have some things to do yet but man if it doesn't just look delicious!