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  1. Re: Your favourite woods to work with and why..?

    Another vote for walnut; backs, sides, and necks. Wonderful to work with, bends like plastic(almost...) and smells great!

    I've used spruce for neck blocks since the late 90's, though not on F...
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    Re: Bridge Design - No Thumbscrews

    Yes, both sides raise or lower equally, but once you set the action where you want it, you only need to raise or lower it for seasonal changes, and you do that in equal amounts, correct? At least, I...
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    Re: Bridge Design - No Thumbscrews

    Also, Mario Proulx made at least one version of the D'Aquisto type wedge bridge that I know of. Maybe he'll let us know how it worked out.

    It has worked flawlessly!! I've used nothing else for...
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    Re: Neck Joint Question

    Another "quick and dirty" yet plenty strong and cosmetically "neutral" solution(IE: you're not adding an obvious "fix", like the brass plate) is to add a strap button to the heel, and use a long...
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    Re: Luthiers in Eastern Ontario

    If it's just refinishing a banjo resonator, I might be able to help you out, as that would be an easy and inexpensive item to send up to me. Contact me directly if you wish...
  6. Re: First mandolin build, based on Epiphone Jazz guitar

    Nothing to critique here...!

    You've done an excellent job with the proportions and lines; it-just-looks-right!

    If you planned on binding the headstock, that will have a "slimming effect" and...
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    Re: Luthiers in Eastern Ontario

    Maybe we need a place here on the cafe, where luthiers could be listed by region?

    At this time of year, most of us are --really--busy, both at work and play! ;) Thus, replies here may be a long...
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    Re: Shellac production video

    Way too cool! This video just gave me a whole new appreciation for my meager collection of seedlac, buttonlac and garnet!
  9. Re: Source for translucent tortoise shell-like picguard

    Yessir, I visit here often enough, though I sometimes fail to check-in for a few weeks at a time when I get mondo busy or side-tracked...

    I have tried to make mandolin and archtop guitar pickguard...
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    Re: Making sawdust

    And heavily figured to boot...

    Sure, we've all seen the heavily figured "Claro" walnut pieces, but the figure still doesn't appear as 'deep' or highly defined as we see in the maples. I'm not...
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    Re: Making sawdust

    Here is one of "slabs" I had cut 3" X 10" x 13'

    A LOT of mandolins in there!

    Walnut, especially Black Walnut, doesn't ever seem to have the deep, sharply defined figure that we're used to...
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    Re: Making sawdust

    I don't think I've ever seen it on a mando or guitar back. Can't wait to see some more pictures.

    Many of us have made carved walnut mandolins. here's one i made many years ago, and even the neck...
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    Re: Sound post...why not in a mando?

    Ever try to flatpick a violin? ;)

    Search the forum; we've been over this many times...
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    Re: Stainless Steel Frets.

    They were nickel silver.

    Of course, since he couldn't get anything better. ;)

    Guys, I know I can be over the top at times. But if the worse thing anyone can ever say of me was that I was too...
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    Re: Stainless Steel Frets.

    Too tough on tools and me

    Don't we owe our clients the best we can give them? At least, offer it as an option. Simply refusing to use a better product because you think it's harder to use is a...
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    Re: Stainless Steel Frets.

    most has hated them and several have asked us to remove them and replace them with "normal" frets.

    Which is why I didn't tell anyone. The only way to get a true idea of whether or not they do feel...
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    Re: Stainless Steel Frets.

    Paul, my other guitars, and especially my mandolin, show pretty severe fret wear within a year, and need fresh ones with 2 to 3 years, so nearly 4 years now, without a mark on the only guitar I now...
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    Re: Stainless Steel Frets.

    I find SS easier to take to a high polish than the old nickel silver frets. Gotta use power tools to do it, though. And they hold that polish perfectly. I've been using SS pretty much exclusively...
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    Re: Stainless Steel Frets.

    Paul, I agree that the EVO is very nice to work with, but in which manner(wear, tone, etc...) does it outperform SS?
  20. Re: Binding the fretboard... most tedious part yet.

    Way, way too much glue!

    You shouldn't have glue all over the place, on your fingers, etc... Just the slightest amount on the binding, almost dry, is all that's needed. With too much glue, your...
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    Re: Spalted Wood for Back and Sides?

    The spalted maple will be fine for the back, as long as you thickness it accordingly, but I'd worry about bending the ribs. I've used spalted maple and spalted birch for bindings on guitars, and it's...
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    Re: source for side materials

    Most any of the "wood-only" tonewood dealers will fix you up. Try Allied lutherie for a start.
  23. Re: Dovetail joint and neck alignment - why can't you do this?

    Can you say "grain runout"? We want to use the wood's natural strength to the best we can, which means not cutting it at angles if we can avoid doing so, and we can.

    Besides, what you're proposing...
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    Re: Lovin the Variety in Tuners These Days

    Well, most nice old mandolins I see don't have -that- much rust/oxidation anywhere, either. Rare is the owner who doesn't clean his/her mandolin a bit, at least once in a while. Either one of these...
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    Re: Lovin the Variety in Tuners These Days

    Okay, gotcha...
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