The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135282   Message #3084643
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
29-Jan-11 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: The Flatiron 1N (Mandolin)
Subject: RE: The Flatiron 1N
I have a model 2M (birseye maple) Flatiron flat-top. It developed some neck problems not too long after I bought it. It spent ten years or so in its case, pretty much unplayable, before I finally decided to take it in for a reset. It plays fine now.

If you do buy it and if it should need a reset in the future, make sure your luthier knows it has a bolt-on neck. The bolt-head is behind a label on the heel block. I only know this because my own luthier got totally stumped trying to loosen what he thought was a dovetail joint before he found the bolt.