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    Re: Flea Market Find

    *** Thanks for the comprehensive list!
    As it happens, I already have the Meldrum tome. The info came in very handy when I was repairing my Dad's old mando - and also for setting up the one I built...
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    Re: Flea Market Find

    It kind of looks like somebody already did that. The button has a burned look. Like somebody got after it with a cigarette lighter. I could do a better job - I have a hot air blower machine, used...
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    Re: Flea Market Find

    *** Very cool. I am not really a collector. Although I do seem to be accumulating instruments.

    Poking around on the Internet, it would be nice to

    Fabricate a new nut. The existing nut is...
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    Flea Market Find

    Hello,
    Yesterday at the ham radio flea market I found:
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    ... for the bargain price of twenty bucks.

    Yesterday, it wasn't quite so pretty. Most of the strings...
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    Re: How to buy a playable bowlback

    All,
    I just acquired a bowlback at the flea market for the bargain price of $20. Most of the strings were broken, but otherwise it's all there. There is no makers mark. No decoration except...
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    Re: Jerry finishes his Saga Kit

    I personally came to this with very little woodworking experience. So it can be done. The two hardest things were - graduating the
    top & back, and doing the finishing.

    I found that the neck...
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    Jerry finishes his Saga Kit

    OK, it's done. I sprayed it with approximately umpteen layers of rattle-can lacquer, sanded it to 1200 grit, polished it out with some "turtle wax" abrasive polish that I had laying around, and gave...
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    Re: looking for oval hole mandolin kit

    I think the no-sound-hole IV kit is an excellent idea! Only thing is, the bracing needs to be different. I was just reading about oval
    hole bracing in Graham McDonald's excellent book. ...
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    Jerry Paints his Saga Kit

    OK, shall we use the short nap or long nap roller?

    Seriously, I suffered with "paralysis of analysis" for a good month before I dared touch the thing. Finishing is such a rabbit hole! Therein...
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    Re: OT: Garage 'Puter

    Hmm, can't display Youtube videos? That's deadly. Hopefully, it will be addressed. I do have a fairly capable junk laptop in the
    closet. It's "junk" because its video is intermittant, but it...
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    Re: OT: Garage 'Puter

    *** Many years ago, when computers were really loud, I punched a hole in the exterior wall of my house, and parked my
    computer *outside* in a box. Ran the monitor & keyboard cables ( no mouse back...
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    OT: Garage 'Puter

    Hello all,

    Everything I want to do out in the garage seems to be on the computer. Wanna learn to TIG weld? Youtube! Set up a bandsaw? Youtube! Apply a sunburst? Youtube! Even printed...
  13. Thread: How much dye?

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    How much dye?

    Hello,

    I just received a aniline dyes kit from LMII. Each small container of powder is supposed to mix up to 1 to 2 quarts of dye. That seems like a lot for one mandolin. Offhand, I would...
  14. Thread: Scroll saw woes

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    Re: Scroll saw woes

    I punted and bought a 10" bandsaw. It's a Sears, cost me $170 free shipping and seems to be the same saw as a "Rikon" that costs $280 on Amazon. Cuts wood like butter. I found videos on youtube...
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    Re: Jerry's Saga Kit Saga Continues

    ....So I stopped at the Home Depot the other day. Left in defeat - they did NOT have Watco spray lacquer. They had "Deft" and
    "Rustoleum" lacquers. I seem to remember some negative reviews of...
  16. Re: Desperately Seeking Hardware: 1976 Ibanez F model

    *** Get a super magnet. Run it every which way over the carpet. The errant screw will jump right up onto it. Been there, done that.

    - Jerry Kaidor
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    Re: Jerry's Saga Kit Saga Continues

    *** That looks pretty good. I like rattle cans. I hate cleaning spray guns, pots, hoses, etc. I hate accumulating cans of dirty lacquer
    thinner, and then getting dirty looks from the hazardous...
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    Jerry's Saga Kit Saga Continues

    When last we left our intrepid builder, he was agonizing over tap tuning and deflection-measuring, and why oh why did his saga kit have a wolf note at E on the A string?

    I tuned and tapped, and...
  19. Thread: More Tap Tuning

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    Re: More Tap Tuning

    Re: "Solving the Stradivarius Secret"...

    Wow. Damn that's complicated. I must have a tin ear - even the crappy violin sounded good to me :).
    Very interesting details about the internals of...
  20. Thread: More Tap Tuning

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    Re: More Tap Tuning

    fscotte, that's a nice workshop. A place for everything.... I especially like the "U" arrangement with the swiveling chair
    in the middle.
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    Re: More Tap Tuning

    All,

    I am thinking about a design for a deflection jig. Here are my thoughts so far.

    A plywood box, big enough to hold the body of the instrument, with a hole in the top. In that hole,...
  22. Thread: More Tap Tuning

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    More Tap Tuning

    Hello!

    Still messing with my Saga kit. I took the tone bars off entirely. Interestingly, the
    taps still sound different on each side of the instrument with no tone bars at all. That's...
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    Re: Tap Tuning Saga Kit

    Drat.

    I wrote a long and detailed answer/update to the thread. Through an accident of computer evil, it all went away :(.
    Palemoon is a great browser, but when you have 30 or 40 windows...
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    Re: Tap Tuning Saga Kit

    I'd like to mention that I have a lot of background in electronics. Much of it working with resonant circuits of one sort or another. So I do have a natural bias toward frequencies :).

    Say, I'm...
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    Re: Tap Tuning Saga Kit

    Um, you didn't give an answer that told me anything. You said that tap tuning was hogwash and that I should do deflection testing. But you did not give me any numbers to aim at WRT deflection...
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