You could buy quite a few original Bigsby steels for 250K!

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 18 Jan 2011 8:49 am

http://elderly.com/vintage/items/90U-5368.htm

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 18 Jan 2011 9:08 am

Think they'd restring it for ya?

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 18 Jan 2011 9:51 am

Maybe pop in a humbucker...

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 18 Jan 2011 10:50 am

Nice! How about re-finish with hot rod flames and skulls for fret markers.

C'mon now, who deserves a $250,000 mandolin? I nominate this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZ40V0teGM

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 18 Jan 2011 11:57 am

If Chris gets one, this guy should, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKHYaQ_meOY

Jay

Tim Victor · Post by **Tim Victor** » 18 Jan 2011 4:29 pm

Andy Volk wrote: C'mon now, who deserves a $250,000 mandolin? I nominate this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZ40V0teGM

He's already got one!:
http://www.vintageguitar.dreamhosters.c ... ris-thile/

In the video you linked, he's playing his "beater" Dudenbostel though. You can pick up one of them almost for pocket change, $30,000 or so.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 18 Jan 2011 5:32 pm

Jay: holy @#$%! that was amazing mando playing!

Tim, yeah he already has one but a guy needs a spare. I just love saying Dudenbostel. It's inherently funny as a word.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 19 Jan 2011 3:30 pm

The acoustic "tube-sniffers" (I'm mangling categories here) at at least as crazy about minute details as the electric guys. They know what Lloyd Loar had for breakfast on the day he carved their braces.... The odd thing about bluegrass musicians is that for all their supposed sensitivity (& superiority) compared to us electric neanderthals, the goal of every single instrument in a bluegrass band is to be louder than all the other ones. They call it "projection" but we know what they really mean.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 19 Jan 2011 4:32 pm

For those that think $250,000 is too much, Elderly does have another for only $225,000. Sounds like a deal to me.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 19 Jan 2011 5:16 pm

Jay Fagerlie wrote:If Chris gets one, this guy should, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKHYaQ_meOY

Jay

"This guy" is Evan Marshall and it will be my privilege to play with him about 3 hours from now in Burbank, backing up the great Troy Walker. Y'all come now!

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 20 Jan 2011 7:38 am

That's right Mr. Bovine.

I caught him at Disneyland once, what a player!
uTube has a few more videos of him, all worth watching.
Jay