At the same time he was setting up shop to go out on his own and was making Tim's A at about the same time. He had built those 2 and also #3 sometime later. I don't remember who I talked to about them, but there was a guy carving one of those fancy resonators they make who was paying a lot of attention to what was going on. I had brought along my old Gibson A which I thought was the best sounding instrument ever made, but of course I had never played a decent f-hole mandolin. It was very strong and I started hatching the plan of how to get the $. I couldn't afford the F anyway ( actually I couldn't afford either of them) and the A was the one with the sound. #1 was the all black F and #2 was a sunburst A.
I went out there and they had #1 and 2 freshly lacquered. They moved their shop about every 2 years and at this time they were in a warehouse/industrial building right behind the dinner theater out by 55th and Arapahoe (for you Boulderites). In '75 someone told me they had started making mandolins at Ome in Boulder.
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