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Wear latex surgical gloves when buffing, this gives you a good grip on the work and makes it less likely to get snatched out of your hands to the El-Kabong mode. Wear a dust mask. If your system came...

Jim, look in your area for Cabinet makers shops. I got a backside load of maple and walnut scraps free from a shop that was running an order for weavers looms. Can often get board ends and off cuts...

This is the stuff to use for binding tape. Has the right amount of flex and stretch and doesn't break easily. Holds tight but doesn't tend to pull up wood fibers on the top woods. Also is not...

No, no, you don't thin the Duco, use it straight. The acetone reference was for making binding Goo. You shave off a bunch of chips of celluloid binding material into a small wide mouth bottle (I use...

Good site Neil, thanks. I still like the TableEdit for songs I don't yet know the melody well as it shows me the sheet and tab to follow too. But this is great for just what the OP was asking.
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Weeelll, if it is from a Borg perspective then you don't ask folks to join, you just go get them and assimilate them! Then they all play together with a collective mind, kind of like a mandolin...

Lots of good advise from many others. I'll just add three things that over time I've found to be very important for me:

- There are a lot of good lacquers but when I went to using the McFadden...

Naaaah, them submerged woods are gona' be too heavy and dense. I am trying to find a source of spruce that has been harvested from old helium dirigible frames. That has to be lighter and more...

I go down to Wimberley each year to a a guitar get-together that some folks put on. Always thought that they should invite Sarah in to join the fun, I may suggest that this year.

I was actually...

I think Herb Taylor does a thing similar to Graham Macdonald, alghough it is usually for thicker tops that later get carved. It involves soaking the wood and then popping it in one of those oven...

For the type of strap button you are describing, I'd check out your local Highschool (are they still called that or maybe Pos-Middle-between-School???) wood shop. I'd bet that there is a kid there...

Most any luthier can whip one out for you in almost any wood you want. We often have a bin of off-cuts from sides and back that make excellent pieces for this type of app. Of course you can also have...

Dang, now you got me thinking. So rather than carved, what about molded? Here I'm thinking something like carbon fiber, not an ovation type thing. Just doing the ribs all in one whack as a molded...

You might like to take a look at a solid bridge with a PickUp-TheWorld under-saddle unit I did on a mandolin. Go to

http://dunwellguitar.com/
and go to the luthier pages and the mandolin build....

I'll just toss this in as an additional trick, particularly useful for the top wood where sometimes the color coats can leach into the exposed end grain and give "creative" effects, not necessarily...

J.,
Sorry to come in so late, I've been trying to find a source for a tool I use for this sort of thing. I got what I think are referred to as "sanding foil" strips, metal backed thickish foil...

Their stuff works well. You can also get the same thing in 10-packs from most office supply stores quite cheap. Look for the 20thou stuff if you can find it. I use this type of guard on all my...

Sandwich bag clips. Brilliant! I didn't even know they existed, looks to be a UK and IKEA thing. But looking on the web I find them.

Thanks for the tip, I'd tried threading with pipe cleaner and...

Peter sez "...115 Dremel bit.."

Peter, just FYI, a similar item in solid carbide is available from MSC
http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT2?PMPXNO=2210151&PMTERM=85285682
and I believe...

You could always go the Larry Pogreba route, assuming you have a junkyard nearby that still has hubcap vehicles...

http://www.jayalandesign.com/LP09/LPshowcase09.html

I remember on a trip to...

For me it is a wet fly line on the days off. Right now with Fall in Colorado I don't even care if the fish bite, just too beautiful being out on the streams.

Alan D.

I still take this to mean that the final carving and tone control and thicknessing is done by hand with hand tools or maybe a powered sander, etc. But mainly the important last steps are done by hand...

Liam, how critical is it to have the tip integral to the rest of the probe tube? I'm assuming that there is some magnetic component to it so maybe each probe has to be calibrated individually, dunno....

Ahh, no mortise and tenon. I use a straight up butt joint. So by fit close I mean fit the curvature of the heel butt to the body so that it wedges snug and has the proper back angle. If I need to...

It is actually kind of a tough question with something as small as a mando. One screw set just below the center line would probably be enough once it is strung up. If you are using thread in anchors...