The Acoustic Guitar Forum

Go Back   The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > Other Musical Instruments

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #16  
Old 11-13-2014, 12:56 PM
stephen mills stephen mills is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: South west of France
Posts: 242
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by LindaW View Post
Here are the photos of the front and the headstock. Looks to be Brazilian rosewood (?) back and sides. Has nice inlay, bone saddle, wooden nut and a standard Bell Brand tailpiece. Forgive the loose string - I broke a tuning button and am looking for another.







Anyone have any ideas of era, maker, etc?


Linda hi again,
Good news-- very good news!
I have just been researching International Collections of Mandolins, Mandola's
etc and here it is:-
In 1992 a Chinese guy Qian Ni came from China to study music and founded a Company called 'Eastman Strings'-- you will have to look them up.
Eastman Strings is accepted as an extremely high quality company.
According to this you have a DGM3 without the scroll head which is valued at $2900. This is not a Mandolin but it is a Mandola. The design came from Lyon & amp, apparently the scroll head is a classic that came from Healeys.
So to look it up or similar go to-- Google, European Mandolin Collections, Second paragraph:- Mandolins - Eastman Guitars
There you go
I'm off to bed
Lovely instrument !!
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old 11-13-2014, 12:58 PM
stephen mills stephen mills is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: South west of France
Posts: 242
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cone Head View Post
The body shape suggests Lyon & Healy...

http://www.gbase.com/gear/lyon-and-h...onal-mand-1920
Cone head ---------------------------------------- you got it 100%+
Nice one, how cool is that ?!!
cheers
Stephen
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old 11-13-2014, 02:15 PM
stephen mills stephen mills is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: South west of France
Posts: 242
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy4 View Post
You can get replacement buttons at Stewart McDonald. Replacing the buttons is quite common and acceptable on otherwise "vintage" instruments.
Stewart and McDonald good idea for other bits and pieces Rudy, but bad idea if you want to sell it to a collector for top Dollar. Really anal collectors would prefer the head as is, I know they are only plastic but you know
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old 11-13-2014, 02:39 PM
Teleman52 Teleman52 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,334
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by stephen mills View Post
Linda hi again,
Good news-- very good news!
I have just been researching International Collections of Mandolins, Mandola's
etc and here it is:-
In 1992 a Chinese guy Qian Ni came from China to study music and founded a Company called 'Eastman Strings'-- you will have to look them up.
Eastman Strings is accepted as an extremely high quality company.
According to this you have a DGM3 without the scroll head which is valued at $2900. This is not a Mandolin but it is a Mandola. The design came from Lyon & amp, apparently the scroll head is a classic that came from Healeys.
So to look it up or similar go to-- Google, European Mandolin Collections, Second paragraph:- Mandolins - Eastman Guitars
There you go
I'm off to bed
Lovely instrument !!
I don't think this is correct at all, no offense. I'm quite positive they never made the dgm3 without a scroll, and theyre pretty new instruments with carved tops. And this doesn't look like a mandola to me

I also don't think its a lyon and healy at all. They were carved tops as someone else mentioned above

Headstock, pickguard, and tailpiece says regal to me
Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old 11-13-2014, 03:22 PM
Bingoccc Bingoccc is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 7,048
Default

I also think it may be a wee bit more than twenty years old.
Reply With Quote
  #21  
Old 11-13-2014, 03:26 PM
Teleman52 Teleman52 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,334
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bingoccc View Post
I also think it may be a wee bit more than twenty years old.
The dgm3 was introduced in 2010
Reply With Quote
  #22  
Old 11-13-2014, 03:47 PM
Bingoccc Bingoccc is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 7,048
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Teleman52 View Post
The dgm3 was introduced in 2010
Sorry, I was just referring to Eastman itself.
Reply With Quote
  #23  
Old 11-13-2014, 04:22 PM
Teleman52 Teleman52 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,334
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bingoccc View Post
Sorry, I was just referring to Eastman itself.
I figured that, I was just making your point a little stronger. This doesn't look like a mandolin made 4 years ago, I think that's easy to see.

Those type of tuners aren't even made anymore, which brings me to my next point

I don't think you'll have much luck finding replacement tuners for that mandolin. It would be much much easier to just replace the tuner button, which wouldn't be too hard at all for a competent guitar tech. They could also get the color to match the old ones with a little stain and no one would even know, He could also restore them and make them function better
Reply With Quote
  #24  
Old 11-19-2014, 08:07 AM
stephen mills stephen mills is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: South west of France
Posts: 242
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Teleman52 View Post
I don't think this is correct at all, no offense. I'm quite positive they never made the dgm3 without a scroll, and theyre pretty new instruments with carved tops. And this doesn't look like a mandola to me

I also don't think its a lyon and healy at all. They were carved tops as someone else mentioned above

Headstock, pickguard, and tailpiece says regal to me
Non taken--cheers
Reply With Quote
  #25  
Old 12-24-2014, 05:53 PM
Tony Burns Tony Burns is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: middle of no where
Posts: 8,030
Default

Tough one - the fingerboard looks like it was stained to look like rosewood - the neck and headstock looks like they were stained ( not mahogany nor rosewood - maybe poplar or some other inexspensive wood )
not sure without a closer picture what the wood could be ( but its not Brazilian Rosewood )-back also seems like a stained wood -birch maybe maple -
again not Brazilian rosewood .

My Educated guess without putting my hands on it -
has a binding like ive seen on Montgomery ward Guitars - back of tuners are enclosed -which hints Lyon and Healy . Lyon and healy also made alot of the montgomery ward guitars -
so my guess is Lyon and Healy --Nut is not original .

i just want to add this- their were literally hundreds of makers of instruments in the US in the late 1800's threw the early 1900's - mandolins were extremely popular
at the time -kinda like guitars are now -companies copied each other to look like each other - could be any number of companies out their .

Their is also a chance it could be made for some other catalog store at the time like Sears and Roebuck -
Not a real exspensive instrument by any means -but im betting will have a nice sound once you replace the nut .
__________________
---------------------------------
Wood things with Strings !

Last edited by Tony Burns; 12-24-2014 at 06:07 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #26  
Old 11-03-2016, 12:27 PM
Heavenlyamber Heavenlyamber is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 1
Default Vintage mandolin

Has anyone figured out what brand this was
Reply With Quote
Reply

  The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > Other Musical Instruments

Thread Tools





All times are GMT -6. The time now is 10:34 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright ©2000 - 2022, The Acoustic Guitar Forum
vB Ad Management by =RedTyger=