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We had a discussion last night about your participation here and you chose to ignore my request. We'll have no more of this.

You can buy a pre-slotted fingerboard and still inlay it to your needs or do the math. Sit down and use the rule of 18 (not 18 actually the rule of 17.817) and generate your own. When I started I...

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We had a discussion last night about your participation here and you chose to ignore my request. We'll have no more of this.

I forgot to say, I will take som pics of my molds and tooling as I am proud of them. Even the older less carefully constructed versions which I have not thrown out over the years. Soon.


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This is the way in general. Taking the time to make your tools as tight and nice looking is better. I have been guilty of making slapped together tools (and molds and jigs) when I was in a big...

While I have not drilled the end pin hole as yet on this instrument I will be doing that as soon as I get the body bound up. Before I glued the top and back to the sides on this one I, I did as I...

This is fascinating. Most of my instruments have been long scale citterns and bouzoukis of 8, 10, 12, even 14 unison strings and I've always calculated the weight of pull on the tailpiece according...

Well, here is the second to last tutorial. Tonight I glue the frets now that the inlay is chopped thru. Ironically enough even though I am glueing the frets I still use a small hammer to seat them...

The tuners were not as you say and the instrument looks great and was a success and if the client wants to "upgrade" he's more then able. Over all it was a satisfying restoration. I build a new...

Yes Hurdy Guridys are quite something else. The wheel has to be ABSOLUTLY round or the pulsing the one gets on all strings makes it more or less unusable.

About the problem of getting the screws...

I have repaired a few A style mando and in fact restored, just last summer, a 1917 Gibson black top H1 mandola. The original Gibson machines were almost useless from button fatigue and just did not...

Thats all right. I have made about fifty CBOM instruments. I have made about another fifty instruments including flat topped steel stringed guitars, a solid bodied classic guitar, arch topped jazz...

Here here on your efforts. I don't know if this is your first or not but its a real charge to be doing this! I remember how excited I was for the first instrument I built (a guitar is my case) but...

Here is the next installment of the tutorial: prep for the glue-in fretting operation as I do it.


First I need to chop thru the inlay which has blocked the slots for the frets and filled them...

Yeah, we used to go to games at Candlestick and see Giants Dodgers games and I can still remember my sister singing "Roll out Lasorda, we'll have a Lasorda of fun!" I chuckle still...

Dave

One good thing about this, I edited my profile. I did not even know I HAD a profile. Oh..about the Dodgers? I hate 'em! I was always a committed Giants fan and the Giants and Dodgers are arch...

Since it was mentioned in another thread, this instrument was begun in 2006. I am finishing it now because I spent the last almost five years in critical condition and so disabled that for two years...

Tonight, when I have a chance I will post a new installment of this tutorial. Right now I am getting this together. This one will take us to the level of installing the frets. The last one will...

Well Paul. I'm not going to get in an argument with you but I did not back pedal. I do know what CV means. I meant that there are lots of photos of what I have made that I have posted in the last 5...

Well, thanks for the compliment. This whole thing came about because I glue in frets and we've been discussing that. The question you ask is a good one and there was a thread I started about just...

This is a tough job as one cant use a fly cutter chucked up in the drill press. I've made dozens and dozens of so-called oval or elliptical soundholes with the associated rosettes, very often with...

Interested in this Celtic knot? I've inlaid a few of these ALLLLLLLLLL the way up and down the fingerboard. Heres a pic or two of one such!




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Well, I met you at a GAL convention in Tacoma 16 years ago. At that time I was already selling instruments but had only been around a couple of years. I was certainly a tyro! I was at the first...

Here are the final shots before I begin the fretting process using the glued-in frets method. What is missing from this group of photos is the filling of the pockets in sections with epoxy based...

As promised here is a further installment of the tutorial. This one covers the actuall inlay of the Celtic knot

First the design is laid out with pencil lines centering it in two dimensions. ...