I've only had access to a mandolin for about a week when a friend let me borrow his Tacoma for awhile.

2nd night messing around on it I broke a string. I ended up re-stringing it and while doing so, I discovered that where he had the bridge piece resting caused intonation issues. It was easy to see where the bridge was located because there was a tan-line on the top.

Buddy rarely played it; he's a collector more than a player (He probably has 20 synths, mostly Roland, in his basement, and at least that many guitars and basses). He's a great bass player, but collector of any shiny bauble musical instrument!

Anyways, I can't remember if I moved it towards the headstock or towards the tail, but it was only about 1/8" that I ended up deciding was best and it was much more fun to play up the neck on it.

I tried both guitar (just the bottom 4 string type tuning) and mando tunings on it. I can't remember which I liked better. Put getting a mando on my life list of instrument acquisitions though.

-Scott

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