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This is not a fern. I saw it yesterday. Haven't read through the description but this is a flowerpot mandolin. Interesting that the entire flowerpot is abalone, no MOP. Does anyone know how normal...

I played this one today. The guys at Mandolin Brothers are an incredibly accommodating crew! Thanks to everyone there.
As for the Loar, this is the first Virzi I've had the pleasure playing. I...

HoGo's response is the best one yet. I agree entirely.

Jim, That looks perfect!!

Glue it with a couple of small dabs of titebond. It won't hurt anything and it can be removed with out much effort. The reason to glue it is that mandolins don't have sound posts like a violin does....

Still, a violin shop would have the cello size. They are expensive so I understand not wanting to buy them.

Find a good violin shop. A simple reamer and peg shaper is what you need. It is a very common repair for older violins and it's not difficult .

These pics are without a doubt NOT plastic. They don't look at all like plastic.

I'm in Modesto. A bit of a drive, what does the mando need?

They are tooled, usually from a round or sheet stock. You can see the tooling similar to a lathe. Warm them up and they smell like sour milk. Do a quick google search and you can quickly see some of...

Antique shops have a million of them, eBay too.

That's why buttons make perfect sense. That have been treated with formaldehyde and are incredibly hard.

I just use normal sandpaper , I think it's about 280 or 320. It's ok to have a little coarse feel to the center for better grip. I only file and polish the playing edges.

Flat marble plate with sandpaper glued down to make each side the right thickness and flat. Put a little rosin on your fingers so it sticks enough to your fingers to glide back and forth in the sand...

I have all of the popular picks. Wegen, Red Bear, Bluechip, TS ......and it occurred to me a few weeks ago that these have set me back over $100. I stumbled onto some casein buttons this weekend and...

He did spend time in prison for cooking meth them came out reformed. Became a tree poacher. Never bought a piece from him though he tried for years.

Bruce we both know a former tweeker who would brag about his poaching in Oregon. Wrecks it for everyone.

My band "Red Dog Ash" writes 90% of our stuff. Check out our latest on iTunes. We have two discs, the first attempt was quite good for #1 but our second disc has some very strong tunes. Writing is...

The reason I'm bothered by the usage of the word sycamore is because it is not a sycamore. Also if you go to a lumber yard and buy sycamore(in the U.S)to build a mandolin it won't be an Acer(maple)....

Care to elaborate Bruce? I've been anxiously waiting your comments......please?

Roger doesn't state what he uses to determine that Loar era mondolin backs were big leaf maple. So I'm left to think that it's still guesswork. Also, to say that Gibson used sycamore in the late 70's...

Roger suggested that if a piece of wood is light in weight that it could very well be "sycamore" rather than maple, when comparing the two. I think that is redicuolus, misleading and wrong. It...

I too wondered about the big leaf statement. I read the article again and find it short on proof of the findings. it sounds like almost pure guess work.Big leaf is West coast only isn't it?

Relax Mandobart, I'm sure you are burning American "sycamore" and not an Acer.

I feel that there is a huge error in this logic. The weight of a piece of wood clan vary within the same tree. To say that you can determine the species by weight is false. Also, the sycamore I have...