Thanks for clearing that up @MikeC
I was thinking ‘how sharp are mandolin strings?’ (never played one)
Also the other thing just screams hospital to me.
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There’s been a running joke with my wife and I since we were dating centuries ago and she did the same thing.
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Thanks @MikeC
Yeah this is my first mandoline accident in 20+ year of using it. I wish I found it funny yesterday and put it on video but I was losing a lot of blood. 
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They can be bad when they break. To the point of slicing a tip… maybe not.
In the academic band I was in, we had 3 mandolin players… everynow and then one would complain about a cut.
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I know quite a bit about mandolins. They’re cool instruments, but slender fingertips are pretty much a requirement as the skinny-ass frets are very close together on that short-short, crazy-thin neck.
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Mandolines are notorious for eating fingertips. It’s essentially a flat surface with an exposed razor blade that you slide food stuffs over to slice them up real good. Works like a mofo. Unfortunately, there are myriad horror stories associated with their (mis)use.
There are chain mail gloves sold to protect human flesh, although most experienced chefs eschew their use ‘cause, what, me worry?!
And here we are.
Nothing but love, @Al1885. Heal up soon.
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Yeah thanks @MikeC That’s actually my first pair of protective glove. It’s so cool like medieval time. I use the lighter version of that now it’s Kevlar. The stainless steel is nice but it doesn’t fit right and worse if you miss and it makes contact with your knife it’d most likely damage your expensive Asian Style knives.
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It’s about the same as a violin, no? I could make that work.
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These delays are killing me. Seems I have to wait till the end of September for this beauty
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Yes, the mandolin is tuned with a similar string arrangement to the violin, but some mandolins have single strings and others have double strings for each pitch, while the violin has one string per pitch:
My best friend is a string instrument instructor and overall wizard: guitar, bass, violin and mandolin.
Guitar has been his primary, but he’s played violin extensively the last few years and mandolin.
I’ve held and tried a mandolin on several occasions, much to my chagrin and failure to communicate.
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Alright I looked these up. Scale length is similar to violin, nut width is larger, I assume to accommodate doubled strings. I can play chords on violin so I’m sure I could make it work.
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Cool. Make it so. 
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Two strings per open string on a mandolin are often doubled in gauge per string, or one is thinner and an octave pitch higher. Similar to the string tunings of a 12-string guitar
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The pore pattern makes me guess at Walnut.
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Thanks. The back definitely lookes like walnut, i just wasnt sure since the grain is strong on the front whether it might be bubinga.
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It looks like the Bubinga to me. I did some google image searches and these two look almost identical:
https://reverb.com/en-cz/item/1140535-peavey-cirrus-5-2000-s-natural
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Ask @JoshFossgreen? He has that model in both 4 and 5.
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I think you’re right. It’s hard to see because it’s a small image. Maybe just below the bridge is Walnut that’s carried through from the back with bubinga face?
Gold hardware though. So hard pass 
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All the same these models have a stellar reputation (not to mention Josh chose one as his main bass).
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