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I designed this guest book for two of my friends that were getting hitched. It is a altered accordion book. This creates a very sculptural piece that is versitile. It can stand up, open like a regular book, but also be spread flat on the table like deck of cards in some fancy magic trick. The covered are even flocked, making the book fun to touch. The pages are custom screen printed in lime green ink.
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This cute thing was sent in for consignment (Sold) with the hopes that it wouldn't need much to get it going. Unfortunately, it needed a little bit. Now that it's done, though, man does it have that classic K'zoo tenor sound. It's sort-of breathy, open, and punchy with a good, wide, lower-mids voice to it. I'm not entirely sure of the year as the factory order number at the neckblock is super-faint, but it seems to have an A suffix which would point to 1935.
Old work done on this included some bridge reprofiling, a replacement bone saddle, a dressing or perhaps refret with smaller stock, and three crack repairs to the top. Someone also put some nice, expensive banjo tuners at the headstock, too. Good on them! They look classy as heck. I did some extra, and so...
Repairs included: a neck reset, fret level/dress, cleaning, and setup. I also added side dots to the neck.
Setup notes: action is 1/16" overall at the 12th fret, the neck is straight, and it's strung with 42w, 30w, 18w, 12 gauges for GDAE "Celtic" or "octave mandolin" tuning. The same saddle will work for standard CGDA gauges but I will need to compensate it a little extra for Chicago-style DGBE stringing.
Scale length: 22 13/16"
Nut width: 1 3/16"
String spacing at nut: 15/16"
String spacing at bridge: 1 1/4"
Body length: 17 3/8"
Lower bout width: 14 3/4"
Waist width: 8 3/4"
Upper bout width: 9 7/8"
Side depth at endpin: 4"
Top wood: solid spruce
Back/sides wood: solid mahogany
Neck wood: mahogany
Bracing type: ladder
Fretboard: rosewood, ebony nut
Bridge: rosewood, replacement bone saddle
Neck feel: medium V-shape neck, flat board
Condition notes: it's in very good shape but has 3 repaired hairline cracks to the top, sanded/buffed finish to the bridge's surface compared to original, a replacement saddle, new side dots at the neck, and replacement tuners. There's a scuffed area on the lower-bout-treble-side (seen in pics). The bridgepins and endpin appear to be original celluloid.
It comes with: an original red-brown chip case.
This cute thing was sent in for consignment (Sold) with the hopes that it wouldn't need much to get it going. Unfortunately, it needed a little bit. Now that it's done, though, man does it have that classic K'zoo tenor sound. It's sort-of breathy, open, and punchy with a good, wide, lower-mids voice to it. I'm not entirely sure of the year as the factory order number at the neckblock is super-faint, but it seems to have an A suffix which would point to 1935.
Old work done on this included some bridge reprofiling, a replacement bone saddle, a dressing or perhaps refret with smaller stock, and three crack repairs to the top. Someone also put some nice, expensive banjo tuners at the headstock, too. Good on them! They look classy as heck. I did some extra, and so...
Repairs included: a neck reset, fret level/dress, cleaning, and setup. I also added side dots to the neck.
Setup notes: action is 1/16" overall at the 12th fret, the neck is straight, and it's strung with 42w, 30w, 18w, 12 gauges for GDAE "Celtic" or "octave mandolin" tuning. The same saddle will work for standard CGDA gauges but I will need to compensate it a little extra for Chicago-style DGBE stringing.
Scale length: 22 13/16"
Nut width: 1 3/16"
String spacing at nut: 15/16"
String spacing at bridge: 1 1/4"
Body length: 17 3/8"
Lower bout width: 14 3/4"
Waist width: 8 3/4"
Upper bout width: 9 7/8"
Side depth at endpin: 4"
Top wood: solid spruce
Back/sides wood: solid mahogany
Neck wood: mahogany
Bracing type: ladder
Fretboard: rosewood, ebony nut
Bridge: rosewood, replacement bone saddle
Neck feel: medium V-shape neck, flat board
Condition notes: it's in very good shape but has 3 repaired hairline cracks to the top, sanded/buffed finish to the bridge's surface compared to original, a replacement saddle, new side dots at the neck, and replacement tuners. There's a scuffed area on the lower-bout-treble-side (seen in pics). The bridgepins and endpin appear to be original celluloid.
It comes with: an original red-brown chip case.
Items from the 2016 Good 2 Grow Kids Spring/Summer Consignment Sale. Mar. 11-13th at the Wake County Shrine Club in Raleigh, NC. www.good2growkids.com
Photographs by Brandi K Autry Photography & Design
I purchased this lamp in 2012 and and created this photo arrangement as a header for the blog entry relating the story of its purchase. The shoot is intended to represent the uniqueness of the lamp but also to provide a subtle anachronism with the juxtaposition of the Stiffel and the 1950s copy of Look magazine and the iPhone. The blog entry follows in its entirety.
A few weeks ago I was sitting at home and realizing with some annoyance that I needed a lamp. I’d found myself in the habit of turning on every light in the apartment just to read at night so I took myself boldly unto the local furniture consignment shop to peruse their offerings. Because of the arrangement of my apartment at the time the added bit of furniture would have to be a floor lamp and sadly all the consignment store had on hand was an assortment of table lamps. I gave up the search and went home to my chimera of an apartment but was nagged by the image of one lamp in particular. In a fit of energy that evening I rearranged the apartment to accommodate a table lamp and bounded hopefully back to the consignment store the next day.
I arrived at the store, held the door for a woman coming in behind me and found the lamp that had caught my eye yesterday, referred to hereafter as “the Stiffel”, still awaiting a buyer. Placing myself next to it in a clearly “this is my lamp now, back off” posture I looked around to catch the eye of the proprietor. As I looked up I found the woman who had come in just behind me looking at me with eyes the size of saucers. She approached gasping, “are you interested in that lamp? That’s my lamp!” Over the next several minutes she related the lamp’s history as it served happily in her mother’s house for many years. In her home it was always referred to simply as “The Stiffel” and so it shall be known in my home as well.
All this rather unlikely happenstance does put one of a mind of just how oddly the world operates at times. If I had stopped anywhere different for lunch that day or failed to drive that particular route or even left five minutes earlier I would never have had the story. One hesitates to assign such things to some intentional mechanism but it is certainly very welcome when things somehow turn out in such mysteriously perfect ways.
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Items from the 2016 Good 2 Grow Kids Spring/Summer Consignment Sale. Mar. 11-13th at the Wake County Shrine Club in Raleigh, NC. www.good2growkids.com
Photographs by Brandi K Autry Photography & Design