*** Thanks for the comprehensive list!
As it happens, I already have the Meldrum tome. The info came in very handy when I was repairing my Dad's old mando - and also for setting up the one I built...
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*** Thanks for the comprehensive list!
As it happens, I already have the Meldrum tome. The info came in very handy when I was repairing my Dad's old mando - and also for setting up the one I built...
It kind of looks like somebody already did that. The button has a burned look. Like somebody got after it with a cigarette lighter. I could do a better job - I have a hot air blower machine, used...
*** Very cool. I am not really a collector. Although I do seem to be accumulating instruments.
Poking around on the Internet, it would be nice to
Fabricate a new nut. The existing nut is...
Hello,
Yesterday at the ham radio flea market I found:
157118
157110
157111
157115
... for the bargain price of twenty bucks.
Yesterday, it wasn't quite so pretty. Most of the strings...
All,
I just acquired a bowlback at the flea market for the bargain price of $20. Most of the strings were broken, but otherwise it's all there. There is no makers mark. No decoration except...
I personally came to this with very little woodworking experience. So it can be done. The two hardest things were - graduating the
top & back, and doing the finishing.
I found that the neck...
OK, it's done. I sprayed it with approximately umpteen layers of rattle-can lacquer, sanded it to 1200 grit, polished it out with some "turtle wax" abrasive polish that I had laying around, and gave...
I think the no-sound-hole IV kit is an excellent idea! Only thing is, the bracing needs to be different. I was just reading about oval
hole bracing in Graham McDonald's excellent book. ...
OK, shall we use the short nap or long nap roller?
Seriously, I suffered with "paralysis of analysis" for a good month before I dared touch the thing. Finishing is such a rabbit hole! Therein...
Hmm, can't display Youtube videos? That's deadly. Hopefully, it will be addressed. I do have a fairly capable junk laptop in the
closet. It's "junk" because its video is intermittant, but it...
*** Many years ago, when computers were really loud, I punched a hole in the exterior wall of my house, and parked my
computer *outside* in a box. Ran the monitor & keyboard cables ( no mouse back...
Hello all,
Everything I want to do out in the garage seems to be on the computer. Wanna learn to TIG weld? Youtube! Set up a bandsaw? Youtube! Apply a sunburst? Youtube! Even printed...
Hello,
I just received a aniline dyes kit from LMII. Each small container of powder is supposed to mix up to 1 to 2 quarts of dye. That seems like a lot for one mandolin. Offhand, I would...
I punted and bought a 10" bandsaw. It's a Sears, cost me $170 free shipping and seems to be the same saw as a "Rikon" that costs $280 on Amazon. Cuts wood like butter. I found videos on youtube...
....So I stopped at the Home Depot the other day. Left in defeat - they did NOT have Watco spray lacquer. They had "Deft" and
"Rustoleum" lacquers. I seem to remember some negative reviews of...
*** Get a super magnet. Run it every which way over the carpet. The errant screw will jump right up onto it. Been there, done that.
- Jerry Kaidor
*** That looks pretty good. I like rattle cans. I hate cleaning spray guns, pots, hoses, etc. I hate accumulating cans of dirty lacquer
thinner, and then getting dirty looks from the hazardous...
When last we left our intrepid builder, he was agonizing over tap tuning and deflection-measuring, and why oh why did his saga kit have a wolf note at E on the A string?
I tuned and tapped, and...
Re: "Solving the Stradivarius Secret"...
Wow. Damn that's complicated. I must have a tin ear - even the crappy violin sounded good to me :).
Very interesting details about the internals of...
fscotte, that's a nice workshop. A place for everything.... I especially like the "U" arrangement with the swiveling chair
in the middle.
All,
I am thinking about a design for a deflection jig. Here are my thoughts so far.
A plywood box, big enough to hold the body of the instrument, with a hole in the top. In that hole,...
Hello!
Still messing with my Saga kit. I took the tone bars off entirely. Interestingly, the
taps still sound different on each side of the instrument with no tone bars at all. That's...
Drat.
I wrote a long and detailed answer/update to the thread. Through an accident of computer evil, it all went away :(.
Palemoon is a great browser, but when you have 30 or 40 windows...
I'd like to mention that I have a lot of background in electronics. Much of it working with resonant circuits of one sort or another. So I do have a natural bias toward frequencies :).
Say, I'm...
Um, you didn't give an answer that told me anything. You said that tap tuning was hogwash and that I should do deflection testing. But you did not give me any numbers to aim at WRT deflection...