It's finally ready:)
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It's finally ready:)
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The Loar does indeed use bigger wire. Don't know the exact size but noticeably bigger than standard mandolin wire.
Anyone have any experience of the IV f-mandolin kit? I'm working my way up to a Siminoff kit slowly.
When all the wood be gone there's no more building mandolins or building anything of any kind.
I'd say any sort of bone should do the trick. They just need to be thick enough. No chicken bone would be big enough to get a solid pice large enough to make a saddle. Any sort of bird bone is...
Mr Wise would now. He's great to deal with and he has helped me out several times.
Bill, I think you're right about it being different suppliers for the different kits.
Regarding the inlay initially asked about in this thread I feel it's not a question of lipstick on a pig. It...
The +1 just means I agree previous post on the alcohol. I now see it could easily be confused with some measure when it comes to the dye:)
Without any form of seal there is sometimes blotching, the...
+1 on the alcohol.
I have never tried water though.
I buy the kits from international violin and the top and back are roughly shaped with what looks like a hand tools and in need of graduation. It's the same with the back. The pieces a pre carved but...
These kits come roughly carved and you don't have all that many options if you want to make any changes. The thing is it's solid carved wood and following the instructions in the "Blugrass Mandolin...
I guess it's all about personal taste. I sometimes leave a scratch or two on my mandolin kits. I also don't care much for a perfect shellac finish. I like a less shiny finish and some evidence that...
X-braced mandolins are more or less concidered to have a "finished" sound from the start. Tone bar mandolins are the same way concidered to require a period of playing and gaining better and better...
I always cut my purfling channels by hand with a home made gramil. Spruce is very soft and I found I have more control of the cut when I do it by hand. I use a router for the binding channel.
Bill!
My thoughts exactly, anyone can remove to much material from the top. Maybe kits are more prone to this problem as they're often put together by amateur luthiers like myself. In retrospect...
A little input from an amateur builder. I build mandolins from kits, and right now I am building a guitar from lumber I cut myself. I build these things in my spare time. The first mandolin I sold...
Lipstick or not, a properly built kit is capable of producing a sound matching mandolins that costs ten times that of a kit.
I don't work very fast but here's the latest update. The mandolin is ready for finishing. The mandolin on the right is my latest order.
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Truss rod cover.
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Thanks!
The headstock is starting to transform into shape.
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A little more shaping of the head.
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A little nick from routing the cavity....
I'm building a few more kits but alongside them I'm also building a F4 from scratch. The wood I have to work with are more or less big pieces of logs.
Here's the first shot of the neck....
Thank you. I build the way I would like a mandolin to look and when others like it really keeps me going.:)
Got to take pictures of the mandolin today. So here it is!
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I have a question not regarding this build but possibly my next. I plan to put a virzi in my next build and I have all the measurements but I'm not sure of the material of the feet. Are the feet made...