Gold Tone GM110, acoustic/electric. $750.
Built under a license agreement with Rigel, the Gold Tone GM110 offers an affordable version of Rigel’s
famous styling, construction innovation, tone, and playability.
Solid spruce top, solid maple back and curved sides. Maple neck with inlaid ebony fretboard. Gold hardware, including tuners and down-hook cast tailpiece. Tone bar bracing. Scale length is 13 11/16", and it’s 1 1/8" wide at the nut.
This instrument is used but has been well kept and is in very clean condition, apart from missing its pickguard. It had a couple of quality control issues that have been addressed. First, the GM110 specs include a pickup mounted in the adjustable ebony bridge and wired to the endpin jack through a small hole in the top. Somehow this pickup was never installed at the factory. But the instrument is now equipped with a McIntyre Feather soundboard pickup mounted internally. Second, the bridge base was installed backward, causing the bridge to lean. My luthier rotated the base 180 degrees and refitted it to make the saddle stop leaning.
Refitting the bridge in this way now means the tiny hole drilled in the bridge base for the pickup wire no longer matches up with the tiny hole drilled in the mandolin's top, but since those holes aren’t currently in use, it doesn’t matter. Original Rigels have soundboard pickups as opposed to bridge pickups, so in that respect this mandolin is a little more like a real Rigel.
Gig bag included, or upgrade to a hardshell case. See more photos, call 425/772-0231, or for more information. $750 plus shipping.
Solid spruce top, solid maple back and curved sides. Maple neck with inlaid ebony fretboard. Gold hardware, including tuners and down-hook cast tailpiece. Tone bar bracing. Scale length is 13 11/16", and it’s 1 1/8" wide at the nut.
This instrument is used but has been well kept and is in very clean condition, apart from missing its pickguard. It had a couple of quality control issues that have been addressed. First, the GM110 specs include a pickup mounted in the adjustable ebony bridge and wired to the endpin jack through a small hole in the top. Somehow this pickup was never installed at the factory. But the instrument is now equipped with a McIntyre Feather soundboard pickup mounted internally. Second, the bridge base was installed backward, causing the bridge to lean. My luthier rotated the base 180 degrees and refitted it to make the saddle stop leaning.
Refitting the bridge in this way now means the tiny hole drilled in the bridge base for the pickup wire no longer matches up with the tiny hole drilled in the mandolin's top, but since those holes aren’t currently in use, it doesn’t matter. Original Rigels have soundboard pickups as opposed to bridge pickups, so in that respect this mandolin is a little more like a real Rigel.
Gig bag included, or upgrade to a hardshell case. See more photos, call 425/772-0231, or for more information. $750 plus shipping.