One thing I forgot to mention. Due to the structure of the CF, the tops and backs that were made are not braced. I think this will work ok with the mandolins because they have a relatively small...
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One thing I forgot to mention. Due to the structure of the CF, the tops and backs that were made are not braced. I think this will work ok with the mandolins because they have a relatively small...
Thank you. Part of teaching is figuring out what will get the kids interested. We are NOT skilled luthiers, just people trying to figure things out. I have received a great deal of help from...
My students are continuing the experiment in the use of Carbon Fiber. Here are some pictures of the instruments they made. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/slausonm/library/?view=recent&page=1
The...
Hello All,
I thought some of you may be interested in the experiment I am doing with some students in my Engineering Design class. Two high school students who have taken my other classes including...
Oboes and clarinets are made of grenadilla wood, or that is what it was called in repair school and most of the repair manuals on band instrument repair I own. It wasn't until recently that I learned...
Thanks Bill,
Don't know about taking on the world, but at least they know how to do quite a few more things than when they started. We will hopefully get more finished next week. I wish we had more...
Hello All,
We got side tracked with other class projects but we are starting to get the electronics and other parts setup on our class project. We took time out to do robot programming, power and...
Cool! I'm guessing some of the other plastics testing procedures might not be so successful like burn tests : ) I had my HS students use the Rockwell hardness tester to collect data on some of the...
I've purchased 3 axa piston type from them over the years and 1 bxa wedge type. They have all worked great. One problem I have found with all of the Far East tool holders (we have phase II at school...
Www.cdcotools.com has worked well for me as well.
I looked at the picture and saw the norris sticker and wondered what the heck is he talking about. He has an over sized vise on a drill press with what looks to be a common inexpensive keyed jacobs...
I would have to put table saw and drill press near the top of the list because both of these tools will enable you to build jigs and fixtures more accurately and quicker. These can then be used with...
Same problem with BIR. People wanting to talk in length about stuff that just slows you down and is not billable. Maybe a time limit and a sign that says 2 questions and 10 minutes are free, after...
Should you hide your work? interesting question. I am a novice mandolin maker but a very veteran band instrument repairer. I have always found the mechanics of how any instruments work fascinating....
Thanks Jmp,
I have been splicing the wires , I was wanting to know if there is a technique for doing it that is commonly used by the Pro's. OR, do they just start over each time. The wire I am...
When winding pickups what do pickup makers/repairers do when the wire breaks or the spool runs out before the appropriate number of windings is accomplished? We are winding about 8000 wraps on a 4...
I don't know. It is an inexpensive 12 volt DC motor. Takes about 10 minutes of concentrated effort to wind a pickup with about 8000 wraps of 42 gauge magnet wire.
More pictures...these are 6 of the 26 mandolin pickups that need to be made. The bobin materials are from stew-mac.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/slausonm/Mandolin_2012_13/DSC_0181.jpg...
I won't pretend that we build the quality of instruments that some of the people here build, but my students build very playable instruments and they have ZERO background in woodworking. It helps...
Pickup winding is going surprisingly well this year. I have a student teacher observing me and my classes so I asked him to do some video of the kids. Here is a student winding a pickup. The parts...
Very Nice. The best kind of gift... from the heart.
More pictures and a video. I wound a pickup yesterday and wired it up. Kids have about 90% of the woodworking done. Here's a video with me and sound of the mandolin. I don't play, but I will get...
Very Beautiful finish and instrument.
Some very interesting repairs on your site. Let me say first that I am a novice repairer/builder but with a very extensive background in the repair of band instruments. I was particularly interested...
Last year I came up with the brainstorm of getting the kids involved in electronics by making and wiring the electronics to the mandolin. The bobbin material is laser cut on our school laser...