Anyone played or owned a Galloup Guitar?

[Mike Hansen]

Anyone here have any experience with these? Here's a couple of links with a few for sale for your drooling pleasure :D

http://www.guitargal.com/galloup.html

http://www.luthierscollection.com/builders/galloup/Models/galloupmodels.html

[hank]

Not familiar with them, however, I've heard of them. Pretty original styling.

Do you have one? hank

[Mike Hansen]

No, I don't have one. I'm going to his school of guitar repair and construction this fall.

[hank]

cool! You'll have to keep us informed. I've owned a couple of custom built instruments. It's amazing what the smaller builders can/are building. The demand is huge now for custom acoustics.

hank

[Mike Hansen]

It seems like there are lots and lots of what look like excellent small builders coming up. Have your custom built instruments been from bigger name builders or smaller ones?

[hank]

Actually, both came from a custom guitar builder here in Knoxville, TN. His name is Lynn Dudenbostel. He builds Martin-like flattops and mandolins. I sold the flattop I had due to huge dollars. I still have F5 mandolin #2. It's the first one available to the public in 1996. There's a shot of it in the Mulberry Street Mandolins under a thread Nelson started.

Anyway, Lynn builds about 12 instruments per years. One of his used F5 mandolins sold last week for $22.5k. yikeswtf!:^)

[Nelson F]

Mike is he out of Michigan??

[Mike Hansen]

Hank: 22.5k? Holymolythatssomebigdough!

Yes Nelson, he's in Big Rapids, MI.