I'm away from my shop and plans. I'll let you know monday
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I'm away from my shop and plans. I'll let you know monday
I'm also building a tenor and am using the Antes plans at Elderly: http://www.elderly.com/books/items/113-55.htm
It shows both a dovetail and bolt-on mortise and tenon. I'm planing the bolt on....
I'm going to go out on a limb and say if you have intonation problems, it won't be because you misplaced the frets.
I realize this has no mandolin content, but there's a very thorough piccolo guitar build series in progress on youtube featuring michigan builder Gary Zimnicki (who does make mandos). There are 40...
The more conventional unconventional approach would be wood top with carbon fiber bracing: eg Daniel Brauchli who comes from the Greg Smallman guitar bracing camp. To me, a wood veneer would have...