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Showing posts with label mandolin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mandolin. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2014

Gold Tone GM-6+ Guitar Madolin Hybrid,... Review

Reviewed By: Jac Harrison
Purchased from: Manufacturer
Street Price: $899.00 USD + tax & shipping with HSC

About: 
Gold Tone is a manufacturer of bluegrass and hybrid instruments.

This GM-6+ guitar mandolin hybrid features a solid arched spruce top and back with a maple neck that is dressed in an ebony radiused fingerbaord and is finished in a hand-rubbed oil finish.

Hardware: 
Gold Tone floating bridge, Gold Tone Chrome covered tailpiece and Square-Covered style machine heads

Electronics:
Transducer mounted in bridge.

Friday, November 16, 2012

HiStrung Octave Junior Guitar, ... (Review)


Reviewed By: Jac Harrison
Purchased from: Manufacturer
Street Price: $2,100 USD with case + shipping

About:
HiStrung is the American manufacturer of hand-crafted octave guitars by master luthier Frank Pine.

This Octave Junior features a solid one-piece Honduran mahogany body with a tortoise style single-ply pickguard leading to a one-piece Honduran mahogany neck dressed with a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard at a 15.5” fret scale length featuring cellulose nitrate dot fingerboard inlays ending with a bone nut and a nitrocellulose lacquer finish with overall dimensions of 28” L X 10.5” W (at lower bout)