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If the rest of us lived a few hundred yards down the road from Doe Bay Hotsprings, like Bruce does, we'd have a good excuse for the same kind of long term "distractions"...;););)

I remember...

Darryl pretty much sums it up about this mandolin and a lot of others! The same basic ideas goes for the ten string. The big mystery is that if you don't have the whole scroll obsession thing, you...

You'll never hear me denying many different "Koolaids" over many decades; whenever possible, I go back for a second helping!;););)

I meet a lot of people in this field and very few of them impress...

SMALLLLLLLL???????? When I spent the weekend with Paul two years ago, he had 230 people on the payroll!!!!!!! Like all of us, Paul is very opinionated, but he is also one hell of a luthier and a...

There is some amazing information on that one particular mandolin in a very tidy specific technical reference package for luthiers that is lurking on the near horizon that will eventually be...

Also my favorite of all that I've played; so nice to get all of that voice in a clean simple package. If you can't get everything you need out of that one, it is not the mandolin!!!;)

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Same here- I've got an old titanium Litespeed that Mike built new for me and I think I've logged in over 40,000 miles of singletrack on it. No question about who I'd get to build me another with that...

No public appearances yet; 'not sure if I want to. When was the last time you could say you had a matched set of two carved Brazilian rosewood / Ted Davis red spruce mandolins and a 16" L5 guitar...

Cello??????

A new batch of Brazilian rosewood "sharkfinz" for the Brazilian rosewood mandolins....;)


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Buy a set of tuning machines from Nicolo Alessi; you won't regret it!

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ALL of the Oberlin summer workshops are outstanding and feature some of the best folks in the world offering up the goods to share with the rest of us. I spent a week there last summer ( with Nugget...

Funny.....I use approx. seventy five 12" long spool clamps and hot hide glue to put the top / backs on double basses in one session and don't have any time issues.....:)

I use them with smaller...

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Maybee that should be inlaid on the headstock.....

Mike Kemnitzer, aka "Nugget".

There are plenty of people who have the skills to do the work; I've got 100% confidence that John Hamlett would do an outstanding job. The biggest issue with wanting...

The more desireable spectrum of Douglas fir makes a great mandolin. I'd agree with Bruce n how underrated it is. I'd put it real close to red spruce. When I lived in the Pacific northwest, it was...

I'm working on a very, very, very interesting project that involves a number of orignal D'Aquisto instruments and a couple of famous collections. 'Apologies for not being able to release more of the...

For decades, I always thought this was a 'Dead tune...then about ten years ago I was picking with a group of friends at Merlefest when a banjo player who had to be at least 80 busted out that tune. I...

John made nice instruments, but more inportantly he was also a great fellow. I can remember maybee 25 years ago writing letters to every builder who advertised in one of the popular guitar magazines-...

Marty:

There is a long history of well made aluminum instruments dating back to before Orville Gibson was born. Checkout this link from my bass website for more info, images, and even a couple of...

I've played the ten string mandolin / mandola tuning machine game many times in the last decade. Occasionally you will see a set of 5x5 from Wavely, but if you contact them, they will tell you this...

Get a set from Nicolo Alessi, you'll never regret it.

Somewhere on the mothership is an od thread I posted on morphing two mid-grade tuning machine sets into one . I've got a spare set ike that...

I played at my wedding during the ceremony while my (soon to be) wife and girlfriends walked their way in. It was on day 18 of a Colorado River trip and we had the ceremony in National Canyon. ...

Bob always went out of his way to help someone else who shared his passion for instruments and music. Friendly, approachable, and incredibly knowledgeable. As much as he'll be missed by the...

I'm pretty fussy about getting everything perfect when I plug holes and it seems like I do them on a regular basis. I think you've got the basic idea- especially in terms of getting the grain and...