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- Siminoff Mandolin Kits
- Dovetail re-visited
- Best small or table top band saw for building
- cypress as tonewood?
- Emory Lester
- Pick Guards
- Binding Mitres & Acetone
- first time builder
- Potassium Dichromate?
- Why aren't mando bridges fixed?
- Harvesting Maple
- Graphite Bridge
- Gibson Repair
- How to Repair a Loose Back and Tone Bar
- tobacco & cremona
- black finish
- I'm doing it!
- What's this for?
- beginner and a kit
- Wood Fill?
- Gibson A frame question(s)
- nut questions
- cutting the headblock
- Working to figures
- Tuner problem
- Shipping to UK
- New kit's
- tailpiece screw came out
- F Holes
- Eletric NECK
- Fret problems?
- Spiritual Journey Of Building
- Bridge Fit
- Removing plastic pickguard
- Side bending strap
- More "woof" in bass
- Fitting the bridge
- Loar Specs
- Tone .... importance of the sides....
- FIRST SOUNDS
- Bridge feet contact area
- Fret Dressing
- Induced arch
- Banjo Mandolin - setup help ?
- Hide Glue
- Chop,woody lows,bell like highs & mids
- Screw hole filling
- Staining Question
- Bill Bussman's mando building site
- Different Backwoods
- Neck/fingerboard height
- Body sanding jig
- gold dot's
- Arabic lute(Oud) construction
- Cracked Neck?
- Jointing Tools
- Roger siminoff's book
- pickguard for A9
- Maple bridge blanks
- Help Me Guys, Please!
- Catastrophe!
- Laminating binding.
- Micro Mesh
- dupli-carvers
- tone bar/grain direction
- The Great Iced Tea - Ammonia Experiment
- flatiron refret options
- Bandsaw for $150
- Replacing Gibson A Model tuners
- Potential wood seperation in point
- Peghead Binding
- To bush or not to bush?
- Fret Polishing - edges ...
- Low humidity building
- Refret or dress ?
- Binding
- finaly
- Buzzing Truss Rod
- show hands...well
- Antiquing a Varnish Finish....
- Polishing up -just a quick "?"
- flatiron
- HOME DEPOT CEDAR
- removing Gibson pickguard
- Block material
- transfering an inlay pattern
- Enlarging scale drawings from Troughton book
- The Mystery of Top Thickness
- How to Market Your Skills
- Kelly mandolins
- Scroll Binding
- Top distortion
- Bridge Height Adjustment
- Opening up the sound on an F-5
- Duco Cement
- Have you seen this mandolin?
- one-piece vs. two-piece backs?
- Flatiron Cadet Neck Repair Costs
- Calling all wood experts...
- end pin
- Why not a maple top?
- Figured wood vs. Plain wood
- StewMac Wood Dyes
- Learning to make nuts and saddles
- Removing top that was glued with elmers wood glue
- Sticky question
- Better fitting tailpieces
- Is this worth repairing?
- F4 prototype
- Building a case
- Lynn Dudenbostel article
- Glued endpin
- router bit for binding
- Rosewood Mandolin
- luthier in or near St. Louis
- Routing the peghead
- Inlaying Stone
- Mandolin Body Area/ Fret Spacing
- Question for Charlie D
- Dudenbostel will appear in an upcoming Do-It-Yours
- European Spruce top
- Need inlay material suggestions for special
- A model fretboard extension
- Bridge feet again
- Where are all the Siminoff mandos?
- repair of top sinkage
- How to replace the nut ?
- Lynn Dudenbostel
- OM..mot just for meditating anymore
- ROGER SIMINOFF
- Vertical crack on top of back?
- Is Engleman used?
- Inducing an arched back
- Lute help
- My Old Gibson A
- Set-up question
- Scroll Carving Chisels
- Tone Bars
- Info needed
- finishing with nitrocellulose lacquer
- Look what my wife made me, no really!
- ..if you build it, they will come...
- Deflection tuning
- Bridge question
- strobotuner?
- Best Bridge Design
- relative humidity
- Cracked Bridge.
- Wood Types
- Bridge Wood/old Gibson-Affects Tone ?
- Dudenbostel Tailpeice
- top wood
- A major screwup...
- Scale Lengths
- Gotoh Tuners
- Mando Luthier In Boston
- CNC help, software related.
- Frets - Average Life and Replacement Cost?
- Mann........is this a good idea?
- Refinishing a Mandobird
- A Heartfelt Thank You
- Mandolin neck resets - ?
- radiused bridge?
- Not really mandolin building
- radius basics
- Compound radius and flat bridge
- banjo frets/standard frets?
- tone bar wood
- New Nut for 1969 bug mandolin!
- blonde mandolin
- Desert Ironwood toxic?
- Reference Material For Fret Work
- neck angle
- back crack cleats
- Scrapers elbow?
- IT BROKE!
- Physics and Mandolin
- what makes the best backs ?
- Mother Of Pearl
- Another thanks to all who helped
- here she is
- Consignment contract ?
- Sharpening chisels and gouges
- Fingerboard dye
- Reclaimed Lumber
- Is my neck fat?
- String Buzz
- "sheriton" brown
- Body depth
- Freedom polish
- Piccolo Mando Tuning?
- A Bridge Fitting Question
- a few questions
- Luthier supplies
- Plate arching
- Cutting slots in bridge and nut
- What's a good log?
- Dead spot?
- teach an old dog a new trick
- vintage refinishing
- Guild Of American Luthier
- Cheaper glue pot?
- X bracing
- bare necked ladies
- New
- first stringing
- Slotting the saddle
- Fret wire size?
- Solid Top Resources
- Hide Glue and Clamping
- Weber question
- bracing questions
- Mandolin Accessories Source
- Hand Made Music on DIY
- Feedback on inexpensive F5 kit from LMII.com
- Crystallization
- Newbies, wannabees, and already ams
- Mandotar
- A New Luthier's Forum....
- Bridge compensation
- refret
- Basic Tool Setup....
- Nasty hum from my Fender...
- Big Joe,or Charlie one for you
- G-string, second fret is sharp
- Opinion of Cost
- SUCCESS! And Many Thanks
- Rigel? necks on Ebay
- Hand staining instruments
- Stainless steel vs nickel silver frets
- Hello, I have a lumpy
- Gold Top Finish on Mandolin
- Stainless Steel Fret Wire
- Thank You For My New Mandolin....
- Tuners
- induced arch
- one bad fret
- Hand stained tops
- One last Gibson comment
- To do or not to do.....
- Roger Siminoff Book
- Buzzzzzzing!
- Oh My God!
- Octave Mando Kit
- Deflection Tuning
- f-hole cracks
- Tailpiece Problem
- Lacquer Chip
- latest mandolin projects
- lacquer or varnish?