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Originally Posted by aphillips
Hey Phil - they are the D'addario mandocello strings - J78s - it was a lot of "fun" attaching the ball ends.........
so the gauges are .022 - .034 - .048 - and .074
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Wow! Those are heavy! That's a load of about 30lbs per string. Are you finding that fretting pairs at that tension is difficult? I'm using a custom set of D'Addario EXP strings (unison pairs of 042, 032, 020 and 014pl) and are a bit under 20lbs each. I find that if I get any harder tension than that it can be hard to play...I can't imagine trying to fret a note on paired strings with a combined 60lbs of tension!
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Originally Posted by aphillips
Also, I was able to upload pics at the mandolincafe - so you can see the back and sides here -
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the mahogany on the back is gorgeous! |
'Tis beautiful indeed (I substituted the image from Mandolin Cafe in place of your link). As I mentioned mine has curly maple back and sides with a varnish-coloured stain (incidentally, the body wood and top wood of my bouzar are all from Nova Scotia):
It's pretty amazing how similar the backs look!
Phil