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So Carole want the beautiful quilted mando, and she knows how much it costs. She still wants it, but does not know what a mandolin is or what they sound like. One of the guys stops working for a second, picks up a mando and plays a bit for her. These guys really like what they do for a living.
Here's a few bodies at various stages of finishing. The package in my had is my souvenir. Some sound holes. I don't know what I will do with them, but it is cool having the sound hole from a dozen really nice guitars. Some sitka, some adirondack.
This older Collings belongs to a well known performer. It still sounds and plays great. I guess it's hanging around the shop until he wants it back for something. I guess he has a newer one. Brian showed us a fingerboard inlaid with the artist's name, but I guess he thought it was too much, so his new guitar has a regular fingerboard on it.
Carole picks up her first guitar. But she has girl type fingernails and can't really get her fingertips close to the strings.