New Mandolin Day - Bourgeois M5F

mo6020

New, and first, Mandolin Day

For the last decade or so have fancied a mando. Finally decided to pull the trigger and to try and avoid immediately getting into a perpetual GAS driven upgrade cycle I went for something a little above what is probably considered entry level. 

This thing’s nice, anyway. Incredibly resonant, and sounds great. I really wanted a Ratliff, but they’re impossible to get here and I didn’t want to place a custom order at this point, but this thing is awesome. 

Edit to include photos because apparently it doesn't work from iPad...

mo6020

Please ignore the state of my spare room where I unboxed it - I've been travelling for a couple of weeks so there's shit everywhere in there   

mgaw

Looks great, congratulations on your new mandolin

wise decision getting a good one from the get go, never found a “cheap” mandolin that had anything apart from a rather thin unwoody tone

VimFuego

gawjus. I don't play my mando nearly enough.

mo6020

mgaw said:

Looks great, congratulations on your new mandolin

wise decision getting a good one from the get go, never found a “cheap” mandolin that had anything apart from a rather thin unwoody tone

Thanks - yeh, there seems a fairly significant space in the market between cheap ones and heinously expensive luthier made ones, and only Northfield, Bourgeois, and maybe Collins seem to be available really in the mid-market. 

There’s not loads of them around from what I can tell. 

mo6020

VimFuego said:

gawjus. I don't play my mando nearly enough.

Thanks man

Basher

Wow! What a stunner. Love natural finished mandolins and it's very unusual on an F5 style. Nice that they've scooped the fretboard extension too as that's something you'd probably end up getting done.

I very much approve of going "all in" even on your first mandolin (as long as nobody goes bankrupt or gets hurt) as it's a classic instrument that'll do you for ever. (Also, you can't kid yourself that you'd sound better if only you'd bought a more expensive one!)

Absolutely beautiful instrument.

mo6020

Basher said:

Wow! What a stunner. Love natural finished mandolins and it's very unusual on an F5 style. Nice that they've scooped the fretboard extension too as that's something you'd probably end up getting done.

I very much approve of going "all in" even on your first mandolin (as long as nobody goes bankrupt or gets hurt) as it's a classic instrument that'll do you for ever. (Also, you can't kid yourself that you'd sound better if only you'd bought a more expensive one!)

Absolutely beautiful instrument.

What really surprised me was how resonant it is. There was a load of marketing bumf around the wood being torrified and aged, but genuinely it’s far more impressive than I expected.

And yes, the only thing that’ll be making this sound bad is my poor technique lol. 

maltingsaudio

Nice

mo6020

maltingsaudio said:

Nice

Cheers

drofluf

Very nice, love that top

mo6020

drofluf said:

Very nice, love that top

The back is super flamed, too, but I was too lazy to take a picture 

drofluf

mo6020 said:

drofluf said:

Very nice, love that top

The back is super flamed, too, but I was too lazy to take a picture 

Well now you have to! You can’t leave us hanging. 

guitargeek62

Congrats!

mo6020

drofluf said:

mo6020 said:

drofluf said:

Very nice, love that top

The back is super flamed, too, but I was too lazy to take a picture 

Well now you have to! You can’t leave us hanging. 

Hah, I’ll sort it tomorrow when I’m on my computer. 

mo6020

guitargeek62 said:

Congrats!

Cheers man