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The 0.5's are whitish also with a frosted gripping surface and have a smooth radius around the edge; some of the Dunlops I have are so sharp at the edge they could cut paper.

"I play with a 0.88mm Dunlop nylon on bowlbacks, a 1mm Dunlop nylon on my Mid-Mo and tenor guitar, and a 1mm Wegen bluegrass guitar pick on my Ajr and my F5 clone. The nylon and the Wegen are the...

I tried all the stiffer/thicker picks with my mandolin, those that I could afford anyway, based on what I read on the forum but I've gone back to the Clayton 0.5 mm picks I use on guitar. I like the...

Didn't want to impose on the young lady playing it, she was with The Hartmans and we left after their set. If I had more time I'd probably have met with them at their RV

This was a CT-110 from...

Came across a Rigel mandolin at a GospelGrass festival this weekend. It resembled an F-Style but the scroll was replaced by a guitar style horn. I looked it up at Rigel's site and think it was an...

http://www.bluegrassmix.com (24/7 with scheduled DJ's part time), tell'em bob_CO sent ya.

In Colorado the RH is very often below 20% for days on end in the winter, this year is one of the worst I've seen. I've been refilling my humidifier every other day so it's been using about 2 1/2...

I use it with a metronome as a practice tool forces me to play in a wide variety of keys. If I wasn't forced to do it I'd avoid 1st fret notes and stretching beyond the 7th fret, hopping from melody...

Hey Sky, tuned in at the end of your show last night and realized it was your last show! Really sorry there wasn't time to get on the chat, don't disappear on us, keep in touch.

Just voted, mandos are ahead of nylon string guits by 7.

Based on making dulcimers, sealing the inside produces a brighter tone, some might call it harsher. I prefer to leave the inside unfinished and sanded only to 120 grit.

All these discussion about ff holes on mandolins lack any modal analysis of the top. Wood type, thickness, carved shape, finish and bridge placement and fit will affect the acoustic performance. In...

A ripe young 64.

Yes. Initially I used a 1.14mm Tortex on the mando and .75mm Dunlop Nylon on the guitar but have recently been using a 0.88mm Tortex on both. I get a good bark from the mando and crisp tones from...

Wow, I haven't seen or even heard of Dan Hicks since he was making the hootenany (sp) circuit in SoCal in the late '60s early '70s along with Doc Watson and several others whose names escape me in my...

I have several plans for wooden gun cabinets, should be able to modify one into an instrument humidor. It'd be easy to control the venting and some form of moisture wick should provide more than...

Now that's the best "djang" suggestion I've ever heard. Gonna look for one.

I don't keep my instruments in cases unless I'm taking them somewhere. I've thought about a furnace humidifier but there are other issues with those systems that I'd rather not deal with. The room...

Thanks for the tips. No sign of fret ends sticking out, no sign of any damage for that matter other than the subtle hint from the sharping. The sharping is only fractions of a cent per day so I...

Here in Colorado the winter humidity is usually around 20% or lower outside and 35% or lower inside so I put a humidifier in the spare room with my instruments. The humidity averages in the low to...

You might try tap-tuning the top by planing or sanding rather than just imitating some other gradiation. I'm not sure how you set the correct boundary and bridge loading conditions before tapping,...

Could also be the tailpiece cover if your mando has one. I occasionally push mine down with my forearm and get a rattle.

I'm recovering from left shoulder reconstruction, fell and destroyed 30% of the socket and tore the rotator cuff up pretty badly. Like Ed, it was a couple of months before things healed enough to...

I found that I was having to slow down too much and think about note locations on the fingerboard. The solution, works for me anyway, has been to pick up a songbook and play it from cover to cover...

I use my table saw to get close then hand plane and scraper to the final dimension. Also use a spoke shave and shavehorse for shaping necks.