I am not going to lie to you and tell you that this is the best sounding mandolin I have ever heard. This wasn’t for playability, but more for tone which we will talk about next! WarrantyĪs an added bonus, the Morgan Monroe Rocky top mandolins offer a 10 year warranty. Later I will so some bridge modes to get the action even lower. I am leaving it as is for now though, because it really isn’t too bad to play.
Once the nut was lowered, I noticed the bridge was still higher than I prefer. If you don’t have files, you may need to improvise something to do this step. Once this was done, the playability was noticeably better. I happen to have some files for lowering string grooves, so it only took a few minutes to get the nut how I liked it. So no unexpected issues and all I needed to do was lower the action down. I laces a strip of leather through the strings and the buzz stopped. There was a slight buzz where the G strings were touching the tailpiece. My pickguard was rattling, until I noticed the screw was loose. For now, I played it as is because I was excited and couldn’t wait! The tuning machines are stiff and not exactly smooth, but they seem to be holding tuning just fine so I am not worried about that. The string height at the nut needed to be lowered.
PlayabilityĪfter getting the bridge where I wanted it and all the strings tuned up, I noticed the action was still higher than I like. I expected it to need fretwork, but no problems there either. Sighting down the neck, everything looks nice and straight. The body is nicely bound and I don’t see any signs of weak seems or other potential issues. Looking at the label, China of course! But I bet you guessed that already. Other than that, everything matches up with the description. It is a standard gloss sunburst and doesn’t really look like the images shown. Much better than the photos I had seen online. Opening the second box resulted in a sigh of relief. With fingers crossed, I opened up the box to find the mandolin in a second triangular box.
I had heard some reports of these arriving damaged.
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