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I just put one cleat under a top crack in an X-braced F5. It was really hard to get to. I ended up using a small magnet taped to a Larrivee truss rod wrench with the cleat temporarily stuck to the...

Here's a couple more photos of 146.

Ron used to have a booth and sold and displayed his mandolins at several western festivals. When he got into his eighties, he continued to make some mandolins...

Updating an old thread from ten years ago about Cole mandolins....

I got to play two Cole mandos at a festival in Montana a couple months ago and was really impressed. I didn't know too much about...

This mandolin has a mortise and tenon joint. I guess it is difficult to clamp properly, thus the screws. I'm sure builders on this forum could add details that I don't know.

Thanks, Mike. Yeah, they fell out about two months apart. I didn't know what to think when I found the first one rattling, but the light came on when I found the second one.

Another thread also said that the screws were there to use as clamps and also allowed for some fine adjustments while the glue cured. I was thinking that I'd might as well put the screws back in,...

Both neck joint screws fell out of my 1995 Gibson Montana A5. The neck doesn't seem to be moving and it's strung to pitch.
-Should I replace the screws?
-If so, should I Loc-tite them?
-And a...

Thank you, Ted! Thanks Jeannie! that was fun. Proof that Duluth is the center of the mandolin universe.

I will be selling #98, if anyone is interested.

I have only played two Prucha's, but they were both fantastic. The one you are looking at is beautiful.

If you tune your mando and the strings pairs are not at the same pitch south of the saddle, does it matter at all? Does it mean the "exit" of one slot is binding more that the other slot?

Somebody did a great job transcribing Pale Rider note-for-note in TablEdit, Ivan. Check it out!

Thanks Emory and BSG. I will go to Emory's site and see what else is available. I have only heard, and learned, a tabbed version on tabledit and it is a great song. Can't wait to hear the real thing....

Nope. They have everything else, but guess Pale Rider has been out of print for a while.

I found the song Pale Rider in tabledit and would like to hear Emory play it, but the cd is out of print. Any leads on where to get it? Great mando showcase song!

Spruce Tree has several new Webers and just got a used Collings MF5 in.
Madison Music has a few new Collings.

It's gone. (Not by me)

OK, not the original name, just a nickname. Must have read it on the internet. The point of my post was that I am trying to change and I am trying to not talk before I think. I think.

I made a fool of myself on stage at a large outdoor festival one summer day. I did most of our bands stage banter and I, in my own sarcastic way, tried to be funny. As Ken, our banjo/dobro player,...

That's pretty funny, Jeff!

Did you pick a close and trusted and younger friend, ted?

So I walk into the room for my 40th high school reunion and it's full of old folks. Musta walked into the wrong room? Nope.:disbelief: So now I'm looking around the house and there are five mandolins...

Thanks. That helps a lot.

I was reading some threads about neck angles and John Hamlett wrote in a neck resetting thread that the optimum neck angle depends upon the desired bridge height. What factors into that decision? ...

I have left messages for Ginny a couple of times over the past few weeks and have not heard back.Had the same experience years ago (started my subscription with issue #1) and don't like begging to...