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It has been my experience with my average sized hands and fingers that to be able to mash down four strings with one index finger (half-turned sideways) that the overall string spacing cannot exceed...

CA's (and other equivalent high-quality bridges) just sonically reveal whatever the mandolin has to offer, immediately and more so in the future. I have installed them on different mandolins and...

http://elderly.com/accessories/items/MCEV-A.htm

Or this one:

http://www.cumberlandacoustic.com/id6.html

Those F holes are definitely smaller than on the F style, but still look a bit wider than what was used on the Loar mandolas.

Good one, Dobe.

A reasonable and understandable desire. I sometimes undertake major house renovations for people, and I insist before agreeing to take on a job that we stop using the word "just." It implies that we...

It's going to need a set-up.....

The design of the modern mandolin is evolving; just because something has been that way for a long time doesn't make it right or preferable (like press fit end pins that fly out when being employed...

That contrary to my deepest heartfelt desire, that I should buy an "A" style.......

"Our polyester count was very high......."

Jerry Douglas on being in "The New South"

Just read an article in Fretboard Journal about the Trance Amulet Lens system that Jackson Browne uses in his numerous acoustic guitars, don't know why it wouldn't work in a mandolin.
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There is a magic bullet for bluesy (as opposed to straight blues) based mandolin, and it involves "extracting" one pentatonic scale from another. To play a bluesy mandolin solo in E for instance, you...

Yes. Regarding your questions; get a full-contact bottom bridge. It can be modified at a later date to include a gap if one was desired (not important right now.) If the overall fully-extended bridge...

Horse-hockey........

Just make sure the person you are paying to do the set-up and bridge installation is an expert. Lots of guitar shop jockeys have never even seen a mandolin bridge. A jazz guitar (archtop) expert...

Good job on the mandolin.
Jimi Hendrix could play right-handed and was strongly encouraged by his father to do so, but ultimately preferred his Strat strung left-handed to play the electric guitar...

Sounds like you are doing everything right. Now that you have moved your bridge, that brings a new variable into the mix from how it was acting previously but I would suspect the new strings. Try...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q6_9A90cUk

I like that.....

The good news is you're not getting one;
The bad news is you will never really know exactly what that term means......

It does look both interesting and useful, especially if one plays guitar.

What is also interesting is how Pat Martino now looks like Jacques Cousteau's long lost twin.....

While I may not have put it like Ray, I completely agree with him and also hate messing with cases, latches and case covers. It is an accepted ritual that is unavoidable when you show up somewhere to...

Good news and bad news: the good news is now you know where never to bring your mandolin again.
You should mention his name so he can't do stuff like that to other unsuspecting people's instruments.

Here's a detailed A5 plan if that's what you want to build.

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Books,_plans/Plans/A5_Mandolin_Plan.html

Gorgeous; the bottom part of the back looks like a landscape of ocean waves, with the brightest part of the sun(bursting) out of a river valley in the mountains. The size and shape of that pickguard...