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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: Weymann mandolute half-breed ?


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mralston - Posted - 01/28/2013:  14:47:51


I bought this 8-stringed instrument thinking that it was a half-breed between a Weymann neck and a ????? pot.  The neck is a "mandolute" neck;  wiki Mandolute.  The neck has light fret wear and it's a good fit to the pot, also closely resembles the Weymann mandolute neck in the Wiki citation. 



Does anyone recognize the pot ?  It has an aluminum base and a machined, bright metal, archtop tone ring.  There is a thin wooden spacer between the aluminum base & the tone ring.  The wooden spacer extends out under the decorative trim, probably to keep it from rattling against the pot.  Pot is pretty heavy.











Billybiltbanjo - Posted - 01/28/2013:  18:12:10


The flange pieces look like Weymann and so does the decal..I think maybe the resonator was original and someone did some work with the rim..Just guessing


Edited by - Billybiltbanjo on 01/28/2013 18:16:57

skip sail - Posted - 01/29/2013:  03:17:33

the flange is definately Weymann,which makes the whole thing intrigueing.

trapdoor2 - Posted - 01/29/2013:  11:47:21


Very odd. I've owned a couple Weymann Mandolutes over the years, they have a very sweet tone...but an unfortunate engineering fault that causes them to self-destruct. I have two at the moment in the "rebuild" queue.



I've seen Weymann mandolin-banjos before but have never had one apart...so I don't know anything about their construction.


mralston - Posted - 05/15/2013:  03:25:04

Here's a twin on eBay:  Weymann on eBay



Looks like the one I found is a Style 6 that got the "Mandolute" decal on the back of the peghead.


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