Building A Very Unusual Mandolin - Brazilian Leopardwood

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6 жыл бұрын

In this video I build a one of a kind mandolin. This very unusual instrument is built with Brazilian Leopardwood, maple and spruce.

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@Sergiovalentimpht Жыл бұрын

In Brazil this wood is called "Louro Faia"

@fourthsebtuning4560 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed watching the build, great result

@scubaguy5455 6 ай бұрын

I really enjoy your videos Audey, keep up the great work!

@inlikeflnt 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow!!! What a gorgeous instrument. Leopard wood… what can you say, such beauty

@RatliffMandolins 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@ConstrutorMusical 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video! How i miss your building videos! Congratulations for the great job! Amazing instrument! Thanks for sharing this build with us!

@jeremysmith2006 6 жыл бұрын

Purdy. Love to hear it once it gets some play time.

@red79vette 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful mandolin! Thanks for sharing.

@n8tuwstevenewland933 5 жыл бұрын

VERY LOUD ! nice work . Whoever gets this will be very happy.

@2old4u 6 жыл бұрын

Great to see a new video. Skilled work as always.

@j.mshrader4104 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful mandolin,good friend of mine who I used to play guitar in his band has been after me for a couple years to build him a chambered body mandolin that he can play with the band and not have any amplification issues. He finally talked me in to it lol building his mandolin in exchange for a 1928 Martin OO-28 basket case. I think I’m gonna build a godin style body for it out of maple but the sides and back will be a lot thinner than a godin and I’m going to route the chambers sort of like an A bracing pattern. Mind you this is strictly a plugged in mando. I have the preamp out of a godin multiac that I’m gonna use in it. It’s gonna have a bolt on neck,slightly wider nutwidth and a slotted headstock.

@earlelfrink 6 жыл бұрын

Sure is good to see a new video. Been hoping you would continue making them. Very enjoyable to watch, thank you for doing it.

@CPettybone1 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@beto11lazzarini 6 жыл бұрын

Ratliff I missed you and your videos. Once again Congratulations dear and admired Master . Lazzarini from Brazil

@adamgiardino5322 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. I really want to tries this

@TheEs150 6 жыл бұрын

really cool

@Adam-fx7pi 4 жыл бұрын

I wish i could buy it

@fatherchangstein7349 3 жыл бұрын

Are you a left handed player? If not, I'm impressed with that little lick at the end. That's as good or better than I can pick right handed haha.

@RatliffMandolins 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm lefthanded and usually play a mandolin strung opposite to a right hand mandolin.

@georgemontgomery5786 5 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the tune that starts around 16:40 in the video? I'd love to get the sheet music for the whole tune.BTW, I enjoy Ratliff mandolin videos very much. I'm not currently in the market for a new mandolin, but when I am, it'll be a Ratliff.

@RatliffMandolins 3 жыл бұрын

It's a tune called Heartland and is available on the CD "Piece of Cake" by Audey Ratliff

@theosalt1 3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous mandolin. A really beautiful project. I don't understand "left hand" though. Who ever considered a left hand piano or a left handed swimming? Just take the standard instrument and play it as is made. Both hands have to be used. The left hand does the left part and the right hand does the right part. I am naturally left handed and never considered turning things up side down or in reverse order. I use my left hand on the frets and my right hand to work the pick. From the very start both hands need to get used to different movements. I once borrowed a left hand instrument to see if I could do it all the other way around. It took me about 3 or 4 weeks to get used to feeling OK and about six weeks later did not seem to be too far off being pretty competent. But then I suppose that I usually never have the money or the opportunity to get a custom-made left handed thingy. I notice that some 'lefties' just hold a mandolin using right hand on the frets and play it from high pitched string uppermost. My own son plays an Irish tin-flute with his left hand on the bottom. He said that it did not seem to make any difference to the tune and when he first picked one up to learn to play it he never thought about things but just covered the holes to get the required notes as shown in the instruction manual. Come to think of things if the higher pitched notes are got by a finger movement from right hand moving fingers towards the left hand then probably a piano is back to front. I just noticed that my computer seems to be designed for a left handed person if you consider the letters that are used most often. We all seem to be able to work that without needing it rearranged for the right hand world. And what about reading books. We all seem to be able to start on the left and read to the right although I often find myself picking up a magazine holding it in my right hand and flicking the pages from the back.

@SqueezeboxOfDelights 3 жыл бұрын

Left handed pianos actually exist! They seem very complicated though...

@johnromano4163 3 жыл бұрын

Is it actually a left-handed mandolin, or is his camera reversing it?

@RatliffMandolins 3 жыл бұрын

It's a lefthanded mandolin

@KG5SNU Жыл бұрын

Your argument may be a bit flawed. ‘Just take a standard instrument and play it as is made’. They are made right handed. And they are made that way for a reason (most people are right handed) otherwise why aren’t all guitars made the other way (left handed). Btw there is left handed swimming--you lead with your arm that you are handed (left or right). And piano is an ambidextrous instrument. I tried for years to play guitar right handed-I did ok but my picking abilities always suffered because I am so much more accurate and faster with my left hand.

@SP-mu9nr 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ratliff Mandolins, how much for this type of instrument? Thanks for the answer

@RatliffMandolins 2 жыл бұрын

Same as a regular "Country Boy". (Except an upcharge for the added cost of the custom wood) All the prices and ordering information are available at the RATLIFF Mandolins website. www.ratliffmandolins.com Feel free to call me at the phone number listed on the website I'll be happy to answer any further questions.

@justsimple8831 2 жыл бұрын

!!!*1000

@lilpk312 5 жыл бұрын

Looks nice. Always wanted a mandolin, thinking about making a solidbody resonator mandolin with mesquite and some birdseye pine I have stashed for the top. What size screws did you use to attach the neck?

@RatliffMandolins 5 жыл бұрын

I think they were 10-32 .....I just went to one of the big box hardware stores and bought the tee-nuts and appropriate sized machine screws.

@bobl2995 4 жыл бұрын

What beautiful looking and sounding instrument very skillfully made fantastic video

@RVsbladesnthangs 3 жыл бұрын

Why wasn't the top made of the same wood as the back?

@RatliffMandolins 3 жыл бұрын

Spruce is traditionally accepted as the best top wood. The reason is that spruce produces what is generally accepted as the "best" sound. The mandolin is actually a good sounding mandolin, but had I used leopardwood for the top, it would sound thin and weak. The general rule is spruce (or a similar wood..... fir, cypress, some cedars, etc.) for the top and a hardwood for the back sides and necks. The most accepted back and sides materials are maple, mahogany, birch, etc. .....but I took a chance with the leopardwood and was pleasantly surprised by the mandolin's sound and "punch".